Nine Little Ring Bearers

Thanks for the reviews! Nice that you like this, but it´s causing me some pressure. If the following chapters won´t be as good (?!) as the previous ones. Then the one who is going to be killed will be me.

Anyway, I´m going to try to write this well. And as fast as I can. Sorry if I update slowly, but my long Christmas holiday ended today and school started again. Damn.

One more thing: Thank you someone (sorry, I forgot your name) for telling me the name of that great Agatha Christie´s book I stole (oops) this plot from. It´s called "Nine Little Indians".

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Chapter 4

The eight members of the Fellowship of the Ring stand still around the elf. Their silent moment seemed like a peaceful while for the commemoration of Legolas´s memory but inside everybody´s mind was confused about what they saw. Their journey had begun well but the black birds had brought a loss. There were no more nine travellers against the nine ringwraiths.

Frodo broke the silence. "Are you sure he´s dead?" he asked quietly from Boromir.

Boromir looked at him and saw the hopeless countenance on the hobbit´s face. "He is. And has been a long time," Boromir said. "He was cold already when we found him."

Sam took a short step towards Legolas´s body. "Maybe he´s just unconscious," he tried. "Maybe he fell down from the hill or something," Sam tried to force his voice sound carefree.

Boromir took a short glance at Aragorn who nodded. "Boromir is right, he is dead, Samwise. But I don´t know if he fell," Aragorn said heavily. Boromir bent down next to Legolas. Slowly he turned the elf around.

Those who had not seen before what had happened to the victim took a deep breath. The elf´s back of the head was all covered in blood. Boromir raised the elf´s hair and everyone could see a wide bruise.

"That is not made by the crebain," Gandalf cried out. He also stooped down beside Legolas examining the scar. "He might have fallen to a rock. But he must have fallen down from very high if it caused this bruise," he continued sinistery.

"There was no rocks." Boromir began but Aragorn silenced him with a sharp look. "We will have to bury him now," he said determined.

"But we cannot leave him like this!" Gimli opposed. "If we don´t even know what happened to him! We must solve this." The hobbits nodded their heads for confirmation but they could not say anything because of the shock.

Gandalf laid his staff loudly on the ground. "We will have to go on because it looks like Saruman knows where to search for us. We cannot linger." A group of angry protests from the hobbits and Gimli interrupted him. Gandalf hushed them with a wave of his hand. "We will bury him. And he will be remembered and honoured in tales afterwards."

Aragorn and Boromir lifted Legolas up again and everyone started walking towards an area of short trees. Gandalf continued: "He would not have wanted us to waste time because of him. He is on his way to halls of Mandos now, but I am sure that he wants us to do everything for our quest."

There was no complaining anymore and a grave was made under the trees. Softly Legolas was lowered into it and his bow and arrows were put beside him.

"Rest in peace. Let your bow sing in the Undying Lands even greater as it has sung here in Middle-Earth," Gandalf whispered in elvish. After a few minutes silence he turned and started heading towards the mountains. The rest of the Fellowship covered Legolas´s grave and followed Gandalf with their heads bent down.

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This was a very short chapter. I meant to write more to it but I want to upload quickly. Because I know how awful it is to wait! (It seems to me that someone is really waiting for this, thank you so much from your positive reviews! But you can say something negative too, I know I´m not a very good writer.)

Nice to hear about who you think killed Legolas. (Hey, how did you know he was killed?! ;) Flame thinks it´s Boromir. What about the others?