Chapter 18 Visiting Mirkwood

We walked around Gondor one more time and thought our own thoughts. My thoughts were of Diamond and the Shire mostly Diamond.

My horse and their ponies were being saddled up and we were about to go home.

"HOBBITS!" that seemed to be Aragorn's favorite way of calling us.

"WHAT!" We yelled back.

"COME ON!" We grinned and walked back.

Standing there were three ponies and Elenril. She trotted over to me and I hugged her muzzle.

"Let's go home." Merry said softly almost not believing he had just said that. We mounted our ponies (or horse in my case) and rode out.

We had been on the road for at least an hour when it started raining. Even the rain couldn't dampen our spirits. We rode through the rain singing a old drinking song.

"Oh, you can search far and wide, you can drink the whole town dry, but you'll never find a beer so brown, as the one we drink in our home town! You can drink your fancy ales, you can drink them by the flagon, but the only brew for the brave and true, comes from The Green Dragon!" We finished our song by sipping a bit of ale we had brought.

"Let's rest here." Frodo said exhausted.

It had been ten hours on the road and still the rain had not let up so we hung extra blankets over our heads creating a tent. We were all hungry and Merry tried to light a fire without much success.

"Look Mer! You made a spark." I shouted trying to sound excited. He glared at me and kept trying to strike the flint.

I snatched the flint away from him and quickly made a fire. We sat shivering and hungry around the fire. When the fire had warmed up I looked around. "What are we going to eat?"

"I dunno." Merry responded only slightly interested.

"Fine I'm going hunting." I stood up.

"Make sure all your arrows have tips." Merry muttered. I just rolled my eyes and walked out of the tent.

Silently I walked through the woods until I saw a rabbit. I shot it and a few others.

Walking quickly back to the camp I hummed to myself.

"Bout time." Sam growled snatching the rabbits. I smiled and opened my pack. A piece of paper fell out and a few elvish words were scribbled on it.

'Tulo na lebethron bo le men mar. Legolas'

"What does it say?" Merry asked looking over my shoulder.

"Come to Mirkwood on your way home." I responded grinning at the looks they gave me. "Don't worry it's not all that bad, I bet even the spiders are gone."

The rest of the hobbits nodded and we looked at our map. We were about a hundred miles north of Emyn Muil. We had been traveling a good thirty miles per hour. That was fast to me but maybe it was because we were ridding Gondor ponies and an elvish horse. Perhaps it was the fact that we had left at nine in the morning.

We would make it to Mirkwood the next day.

We ate and went to bed.

The next morning we got up early and were on the road in a hour. After five hours we got to the woods. The other hobbits looked terrified to be there but Elenril trotted happily onward.

Soon the others had forgotten their fear and began to admire the woods. We rode far in and soon it began to darken.

"We better stop." I said getting off Elenril and setting my blanket down on the soft leaves so it was like a bed. We had another great meal provided by Sam then fell asleep.

I couldn't wait to see Legolas and King Tharinduil the next day.

Author's Notes: I know the time it took to get to Mirkwood isn't right. Maybe it is. I don't know but if you thought it was a little fast I'm sorry.

I'm going to space out all the chapters I haven't I've just been really busy. School, band, and the story are all too much! I try my best.

Reviews:

Ice Ember- No I just didn't get that. Pip and Merry were the same size of Frodo and Sam! That bugged me. I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed! :)

Kit Cloudkicker- Did you like it? And sorry about the cold. I hate colds!

Littlesaiyangirl- I LOVE the extended editions! It really bugs me how PJ cuts out so much of The Great Tolkien's books!

Legolas-lvr- Of course I'm going to put that part in!! I was also mad when PJ didn't put it in! It's my favorite part of the book!