Note: there is an OC in this chapter who will remain for a while. I own no characters OTHER THAN HER!! She is based on my friend and I will bee looking for anyone stealing her.

Ch. 24

Pippin entered to a scene he may have expected. Merry, Rosie, and Frodo clung to each other for support, all crying or beyond tears. Elanor, who Pippin had not caught sight of since he'd arrived, was sitting on her father's stomach, shaking him, trying to wake him. Gandalf walked over and lifted the child. Sitting her upon his lap, he began to explain. Bilbo stood in the center of the room, touching nothing, as always, and stared around with watering eyes.

Arwen saw Elrond. As he was facing away from the door he didn't see her. Her eyes filled with tears as she stared at the back of her father's head: a head she'd not seen in years.

"Ada." she whispered.

Elrond straightened. His ears twitched. He slowly turned. "Arwen?" he asked. He was stunned.

"Ada!" Arwen ran and she and Elrond held each other close.

Galadriel, however, immediately strode over to Sam. She kneeled down and put her hand over his forehead, and then over his heart. "Tarien, ro il- naio ba. Sina naio winya a'amin. Sai-winya. Antio lanne"

Gandalf looked between the two Elves. Tarien nodded and ran out of the room purposefully.

"What is it?" asked Pippin to Gandalf. "What are they saying?"

Gandalf wasn't moving. He blinked and shook his head, looking down at Pippin. His mouth hung open, and a small gurgling noise emanated from the hole.

"Gandalf?" Pippin was worried. What were they saying that Gandalf would be struck dumb over?

"Sinome, arwen amin," said Tarien, reentering. She handed Galadriel a cloth and a bowl of steaming water.

Galadriel began to chant. As she did so, she dipped the cloth into the bowl and dabbed it on Sam's head. She moved it down over his heart, then his stomach. Aside from the chanting, Pippin heard a distant humming. He listened more closely and realized that Galadriel was speaking through her mind to Sam so powerfully, that others could hear it.

Samwise Gamgee. Answer me. Come back to us.

"Gandalf. Gandalf, why is she talking to him like that? He's dead. Elves can't raise the dead.can they?"

"No." Gandalf's voice was little more than a whisper.

"Then what is she doing?"

"Trying to wake him up."

"What?"

"He's. alive."