!!!SPOILER WARNING!!! If you don't want to know what happens after Two Towers, then do not read on!!! This is set during ROTK.

Sorry it has taken me so long to update. I know it's not like me. I'm afraid my updates might be taking a bit longer now, as I am getting more and more h/w each night. :p To make up for the long delay, I have put two chapters up, and also because this one is quite short. Thank you to all my lovely reviewers. Please review and enjoy this chapter. ^_^

Gilraen 3.

muykiay- Glad you think it is still really good. I put the warning, just as you asked.

Elerrina- Thanks. Perhaps I should have put a bit more detail, but I thought that might be too much like the actual story, if you know what I mean.

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*- Nope, I've started now. ROTK isn't out until December. I'm not waiting that long. I'vI've this 'another daughter for Elrond' thing before. It's a story. I make up the rules for any extras. Hope that doesn't offend or annoy anyone, but that's how I planned it. Thanks for your review.

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Chapter 8, News.

"Why haven't we heard anything yet?" asked Rinamarth exasperatedly. Arwen watched her sister from her seat. She was pacing the room, her hands clasped behind her back. "They left ages ago, why is there no news?" She looked desperately at her sister.

"I don't know, I'm as worried, confused, whatever you want to call it, as you are!"

Rinamarth stopped pacing and sat down. "I just hate hearing nothing."

"No news is good news," Arwen reassured her.

"Not always!"

Arwen shook her head. "I know how you are feeling, in fact, probably worse, though I may not look it. Inside, my heart is aching. I want him back here with me as much as you want Legolas, but there is nothing we can do."

Just as she finished, a messenger hurried in. "My Ladies, news from Lothlórien!" he gasped. He had obviously been running.

They jumped up. "What news?" they asked simultaneously.

"Come, follow me. Your father wishes to see you in his study," he replied.

They quickly followed him to Elronds' study. They went in, and stared at their father. He was at the window, hands behind his back, a letter grasped in his hands. He was staring away to the East, towards Lothlórien.

"Father?" asked Rinamarth.

He slowly turned to face them. He looked again at the letter. "Good and bad news," he said. He sat down. They girls sat opposite him. "Well?" pressed Arwen. He looked up at them.

"Well, you know we sent Haldir and his company to Helms Deep to help the Men in the battle? They got there, but only a few have returned, Haldir not included."

The girls gasped, Rinamarth felt tears running down her cheeks. "Haldir's…dead?" she asked in a whisper.

"Yes, I am afraid so," Elrond replied sadly. They hung their heads.

"But there is good news too. Gandalf is alive." They looked back up. "Alive?" Arwen cried. "How, when?"

"A while now. There is a lot of detail here, I won't tell you all of it now, but he defeated the Balrog, and went back to Lothlórien. He was healed, then sent to complete his task. He fought alongside Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, and the Men at Helms Deep." Their girls' hearts leapt into their mouths as he said Aragorn and Legolas. Then, they are alive?" asked Arwen, referring to them.

"Yes, they all survived the battle." They smiled. "Thank heavens," sighed Rinamarth.

  A lament was sung for Haldir, and all the Elves that perished in the battle. Rinamarth led it, as always, with Arwen by her side. They grieved for Haldir; they had loved him dearly, like a brother, and now he was gone. He would now be in the Halls of Waiting, then his spirit would pass on into Valinor where it would rest in peace.

  Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Théoden, and his company rode to Isengard, and there, the Three Hunters met once again with their two lost companions, Merry, and Pippin. They talked long, thenand then went to the foot of Orthanc so Gandalf could speak with Saruman. Wormtongue chucked the palantír out of a window, and it nearly hit Gandalf on his head. That was probably the biggest mistake Wormtongue ever made. The company took it, and rode back to Helms Deep. There, Aragorn looked into the palantír, and he, along with Legolas, Gimli, the Dúnedain and the Sons of Elrond, walked the Paths of the Dead. They went down to Pelagir, and there, Legolas saw and heard the gulls, and his heart yearned for the Sea. They sailed down the River to Minas Tirith, and the Battle of the Pelennor Fields took place. Éowyn destroyed the King of the Nazgûl. She was badly hurt, and was laid in the Houses of Healing. As were Merry and Faramir, Boromirs' younger brother.   

  When Aragorn entered the City, he healed them, and they awoke. It is said that the hands of the King are healing hands, and it was proved true.

So, hope that was ok. Please review! ^_^ Now head over to chapter 9, The Black Gate.