Vikki Turner- Thanks for the review, glad you like it. Sorry I took a while
for the next chapter, I started several other stories and had to put this
one on hold, but here it is.
Purplefluffychainsaw- Elanor you are insane. However I am glad you liked it. Yes I did ask permission to use Kaldur, though I got into a bit of trouble for not asking to use Ranien and Trelan but they didn't mind too much. More Kaldurness in this chapter, no Kurt though I'm afraid, I don't really think he could fit into a LOTR story though otherwise I would definitely include him just for you. Come to think of it though, I expect I could include him the falling into M.E fic.
~~~~~~~~~~ The pair had been walking for about an hour now when Legolas looked up suddenly and said.
"I wonder what Kaldur was doing in that village, knowing him I doubt it was anything good"
The man stalking the duo snorted quietly at these words but then, remembering the hearing abilities of the two checked himself and stopped.
"your right" mused Aragorn thoughtfully, "Oh well, when we let him go we knew that it was a risk so I suppose there is nothing we can do about it now."
"His abilities at annoying me have improved, I was only around him for what, five minutes and I was already coming close to shooting him"
"Yes" Aragorn replied, grinning "he always did have that affect on you elves, although Elrohir managed to ignore him quite effectively"
Legolas raised his eyebrows in exasperation.
"Strider, he didn't get annoyed because he couldn't hear him you idiot"
"Oh yes, I forgot" Aragorn replied, grinning "well if that's the effect he had on Rivendell elves imagine what it would be Legolas like if we took him to Lothlorien, he would probably drive them insane in two minutes flat"
"If they didn't shoot him first"
The two started laughing at that and Kaldur, who had been listening intently paled slightly, maybe it wasn't a good idea to follow these two, then he shook his head, They wouldn't shoot me, he thought, I'm Kaldur De Cahr.
That night they stopped in a hollow to make camp, and as they sat round the fire eating food the elf and human talked and laughed, recapping adventures, both with and without the bandit who was sitting in a tree, some hundred yards away, eating his own meagre meal and looking wistfully at the food supplies that the Aragorn had bought earlier that day.
Oh well, he thought, he chose too follow the pair so it was his own fault if is meals weren't exactly up to scratch.
As he bedded down for the night, hidden in a crevasse behind a rather uncomfortable boulder he wondered if it was worth it following these people. He decided it was, any chance he got to annoy people especially people who he knew wouldn't hurt him would b worth it, and Legolas in particular was a good person to annoy. He lay down for the night, alert even as he slept for the sound of his quarry leaving.
Two days later they had reached the edge of the wood, Kaldur stared in wonder from his hiding place at the sight of the golden trees swaying and glinting in the breeze.
Reaching up he picked a golden leaf and stared at eagerly before coming to the conclusion that sadly it wasn't real gold and morosely he dropped it to the forest floor.
Following the elf and ranger cautiously he entered the woods, not sure what to expect from its inhabitants.
Legolas looked around; waiting for the elves, whose footsteps his quick ears had just picked up, to arrive. Sure enough they reached the clearing around three minutes later, but they were not alone.
Sauntering casually in the middle of the group, not seeming to care that he was tied up and captured, in all reality he probably didn't care, the fact that he was slightly on the insane side seemed to have that affect (effect?) on him quite often was Kaldur, grinning infuriatingly at the elves around him.
Legolas was slightly amazed to see that at least half of them were already wearing the irate, I'm-about-to-explode-look that elves often got round Kaldur. It was one that Legolas was very familiar with having worn it himself for most of the adventure he had spent with Kaldur, and then he had seen it mirrored on all the Rivendell elves.
"Kaldur" Legolas asked in surprise, while next to him Aragorn's jaw dropped.
"Well, hello Legolas, fancy meeting you here, you see gents" he said turning to the elves, "I'm their friend so if you just wanted to let go of..." he trailed off at the glare from Haldir, he knew he should really be getting used to the elf glare, but if truth be told it was rather scary.
"Legolas, you know this human?, you should know better than to bring an unknown human into Lothlorien" one of the elves looked at Legolas in surprise, both at the fact that he had brought a human uninvited into the forest, and that he was friends with such a maddening specimen of that race.
"Haldir, Mae govannon Mellon Nin, yes unfortunately Strider and myself have had the pleasure of meeting this man, and believe me, we didn't bring him here, he must have followed us."
"Legolas, I'm hurt, I wouldn't follow you when you specifically told me that I wasn't going with you. I must have accidentally gone the same way as you but..."
"Kaldur, don't say another word, do you understand me, you will stand here, you wont say a word and you will let me and Strider sort out this mess, understand?"
Kaldur's only reply was to mime zipping his lips shut and, sighing in exasperation, Legolas turned back to the other elves and Estel, concealing their conversation in elvish the two tried to sort out the mess.
"Well a couple of months back Strider and I had a running with a band of thieves in the western lands near the barrow downs, Kaldur was the lead bandit."
Kaldur smiled at the sound of his name, he had no idea whatsoever what they were going on about, but it was nice to be appreciated.
"You mean to say he escaped from you" asked Haldir in surprise, he had never known Legolas to let anyone escape before, and although he didn't know Strider as well as the Mirkwood elf he could have sworn that Strider would not be that careless either."
"No, he didn't escape, we let him go, don't ask" Legolas said hurriedly at the look of confusion on the elves face "I'll explain properly soon, in the meanwhile lets say any punishment that we would have given to him would have done more harm than good to him due to his past. Anyway, on our way here we met Kaldur in an inn and, despite us telling him not to follow us, he decided to anyway, so here is."
"I see" said Haldir, though he still looked slightly confused. "I don't know what we're going to do about him then, I suppose the only thing to do is to take him to the lord and the lady of the wood"
Legolas and Aragorn looked at each other before nodding slowly in agreement. It seemed to be the only option, they couldn't let him leave now he had past the borders, leastways not without the lord and lady's permission but the two friends were worried about the effect (affect? A/N ok could someone please explain in a review the difference between effect and affect cause otherwise I am going to have to keep doing one and putting the other in brackets.) that the human would have on the rulers of the wood.
They thought that Galadriel could probably keep her temper in Kaldur's presence, after all, one summer when Legolas, Aragorn, and the twins had visited Lothlorien she had been left in a tree and almost caught by orcs, suspended in nets, and soaked with water. They were pretty sure therefore that she could handle one infuriating human.
Lord Celeborn however was different matter. He was decidedly short tempered, and although both kind and wise, he was quick to lose his temper when anyone annoyed, played tricks or in any other way wound him up. There was nothing for it though and so the elves and the ranger turned back to where Kaldur had been standing, only he wasn't there any more.
Groaning Legolas took of in a run in the direction that Kaldur's tracks led and he returned several minutes later dragging a grinning Kaldur behind him.
"You know Legolas" Kaldur said, his grin wavering slightly "you wanna loosen up a bit on your grip, you kind of cutting off the circulation in my arm mate."
"Oh" said Legolas, trying to sound surprised, but not doing a very good job "I didn't realise" Loosening his grip slightly Legolas led the human back to the group and Strider turned to the human.
"Kaldur, we are going to take you to the leaders of this wood, however very few mortals can walk unhindered through these woods and so you will be blindfolded, and no" he said as the bandit looked like he was going to cut in "we wont be untying you, I know that if you run we can catch you very easily but frankly I doubt that any of us want the bother of chasing after you, understand?"
"Yup, perfectly, so, where am I going anyway?"
"To the heart of the wood, Caras Galadhon, the dwelling of the Lord Celeborn and the Lady Galadriel."
"Galadriel, isn't she that witc... never mind" he finished hastily; the glares of the elves had intensified.
"Kaldur" Legolas hissed in the mans ear. "Whatever you do, do not insult the Lady, is that understood."
Nodding once more, Kaldur allowed Legolas to blindfold his eyes and the company finally moved off.
"Are we there yet" asked Kaldur, when they had been walking for about half a hour.
"No" replied one of the Lorien elves.
"How bout now" he asked when five more minutes had passed.
"No" replied another elf, gritting his teeth slightly in annoyance.
"What about...ahhh" Kaldur cried out suddenly bringing his bound hands up to his ears and stopping for a second.
"What is it Kaldur" asked Legolas quickly.
"Nothin I just heard a voice in my head, which in itself isn't all that surprising as I quite often hear voices in my head. Very nice voices they are too, but this one was different, I've never heard this one before and it isn't saying the usual mumbo jumbo that my mind comes up with..."
He trailed off yet again as he realised that the elves were probably staring at him in surprise. He couldn't see them of course, but his time in Rivendell had shown him that he often had that affect(effect?) on elves. He was quite pleased actually, winding people up had always been a favourite hobby of his, and it was something he was especially good at.
"Don't worry Kaldur" said Strider grinning, "Your not insane, well actually you are insane, but this voice isn't more proof of your insanity, it is the lady of the wood, I got a bit of a shock the first time she spoke in my head as well. Probably more so than you as strange voices in my head don't seem to be as ordinary an occurrence as they are with you."
"You know" Kaldur said thoughtfully "I'm no saying she is a witch or anything, but she does have extremely witch like tendencies for someone who isn't a sorceress."
Kaldur was actually quite glad of the blindfold just then, he had a feeling that if he could see the faces of the Lorien elves he would probably be lying in a frazzled heap on the floor due to ten or so deadly elvish glares.
He heard a soft laughing in his head, but this time he managed to refrain from exclaiming in surprise as he heard the voice of the lady.
"So I am a witch am I Kaldur?" the voice said, "That is one thing I haven't been called to my knowledge before"
"Ah" Kaldur replied out loud, ignoring the fact that everyone was probably staring at him yet again. "Maybe you ain't been called it in here, but in the villages nearby they often mention an enchanted forest in which lives an evil sorceress, although" he said thoughtfully, "you don't sound that evil to me, bit creepy with the whole talking in peoples head thing though, I can see where the witch stories come from"
Again the tinkling laugh was heard in his ear and then he heard her voice no more, for the moment at least.
All of a sudden he felt the blindfold being removed and, blinking suddenly as his eyes came into contact with the bright sun once more he saw Haldir standing in front of him, a slight frown marring his usually fair features.
"The lady sends word to say that you need not be blindfolded" he said grudgingly "Apparently she trusts that you won't betray us...though I can't imagine why" he mumbled the last bit quietly to himself but Kaldur heard it anyway.
"Hey, I heard that mate, you can't hide anything from me, I have the ears of a...a..." he seemed lost for a comparison for moment but as he stared round the clearing he grinned and said. "The ears of an elf, they just don't do the whole pointy thing, always liked the idea of having pointy ears personally but I suppose beggars can't be choosers, and I am particularly good looking, if I do say so..."
"Kaldur, shut up, or I'll gag you with your blindfold since we have no further use for it."
Once more Kaldur mimed zipping his lips and the company walked on once more, in temporarily blissful peace.
Finally they reached the city, much to the relief of all the elves, Kaldur's silence hadn't really lasted long and all the elves had come very close to strangling the human. Aragorn had managed to refrain himself, he had never found Kaldur as annoying as the elves had so he had managed to survive the incessant chatter Kaldur had put up.
As they passed through the gates Kaldur looked around himself in awe as he saw the shimmering buildings in the flets. He had thought Rivendell beautiful, but this gold and silver city took his breath away.
(well that is about seven pages long so that'll have to do for this chapter, however I am moving on to the next chapter straight away now for several reasons, firstly I have lots of ideas, and secondly my brother is sitting in the living room, which I would have to go through in order to get to my room, and as he told me he was going to kill me one day, about an hour ago, I'm going to wait for a bit till he has decided that he is to young to murder someone. So basically, what I was getting at was that if I get enough reviews I will probably be able to put up the next chapter pretty quickly.)
Purplefluffychainsaw- Elanor you are insane. However I am glad you liked it. Yes I did ask permission to use Kaldur, though I got into a bit of trouble for not asking to use Ranien and Trelan but they didn't mind too much. More Kaldurness in this chapter, no Kurt though I'm afraid, I don't really think he could fit into a LOTR story though otherwise I would definitely include him just for you. Come to think of it though, I expect I could include him the falling into M.E fic.
~~~~~~~~~~ The pair had been walking for about an hour now when Legolas looked up suddenly and said.
"I wonder what Kaldur was doing in that village, knowing him I doubt it was anything good"
The man stalking the duo snorted quietly at these words but then, remembering the hearing abilities of the two checked himself and stopped.
"your right" mused Aragorn thoughtfully, "Oh well, when we let him go we knew that it was a risk so I suppose there is nothing we can do about it now."
"His abilities at annoying me have improved, I was only around him for what, five minutes and I was already coming close to shooting him"
"Yes" Aragorn replied, grinning "he always did have that affect on you elves, although Elrohir managed to ignore him quite effectively"
Legolas raised his eyebrows in exasperation.
"Strider, he didn't get annoyed because he couldn't hear him you idiot"
"Oh yes, I forgot" Aragorn replied, grinning "well if that's the effect he had on Rivendell elves imagine what it would be Legolas like if we took him to Lothlorien, he would probably drive them insane in two minutes flat"
"If they didn't shoot him first"
The two started laughing at that and Kaldur, who had been listening intently paled slightly, maybe it wasn't a good idea to follow these two, then he shook his head, They wouldn't shoot me, he thought, I'm Kaldur De Cahr.
That night they stopped in a hollow to make camp, and as they sat round the fire eating food the elf and human talked and laughed, recapping adventures, both with and without the bandit who was sitting in a tree, some hundred yards away, eating his own meagre meal and looking wistfully at the food supplies that the Aragorn had bought earlier that day.
Oh well, he thought, he chose too follow the pair so it was his own fault if is meals weren't exactly up to scratch.
As he bedded down for the night, hidden in a crevasse behind a rather uncomfortable boulder he wondered if it was worth it following these people. He decided it was, any chance he got to annoy people especially people who he knew wouldn't hurt him would b worth it, and Legolas in particular was a good person to annoy. He lay down for the night, alert even as he slept for the sound of his quarry leaving.
Two days later they had reached the edge of the wood, Kaldur stared in wonder from his hiding place at the sight of the golden trees swaying and glinting in the breeze.
Reaching up he picked a golden leaf and stared at eagerly before coming to the conclusion that sadly it wasn't real gold and morosely he dropped it to the forest floor.
Following the elf and ranger cautiously he entered the woods, not sure what to expect from its inhabitants.
Legolas looked around; waiting for the elves, whose footsteps his quick ears had just picked up, to arrive. Sure enough they reached the clearing around three minutes later, but they were not alone.
Sauntering casually in the middle of the group, not seeming to care that he was tied up and captured, in all reality he probably didn't care, the fact that he was slightly on the insane side seemed to have that affect (effect?) on him quite often was Kaldur, grinning infuriatingly at the elves around him.
Legolas was slightly amazed to see that at least half of them were already wearing the irate, I'm-about-to-explode-look that elves often got round Kaldur. It was one that Legolas was very familiar with having worn it himself for most of the adventure he had spent with Kaldur, and then he had seen it mirrored on all the Rivendell elves.
"Kaldur" Legolas asked in surprise, while next to him Aragorn's jaw dropped.
"Well, hello Legolas, fancy meeting you here, you see gents" he said turning to the elves, "I'm their friend so if you just wanted to let go of..." he trailed off at the glare from Haldir, he knew he should really be getting used to the elf glare, but if truth be told it was rather scary.
"Legolas, you know this human?, you should know better than to bring an unknown human into Lothlorien" one of the elves looked at Legolas in surprise, both at the fact that he had brought a human uninvited into the forest, and that he was friends with such a maddening specimen of that race.
"Haldir, Mae govannon Mellon Nin, yes unfortunately Strider and myself have had the pleasure of meeting this man, and believe me, we didn't bring him here, he must have followed us."
"Legolas, I'm hurt, I wouldn't follow you when you specifically told me that I wasn't going with you. I must have accidentally gone the same way as you but..."
"Kaldur, don't say another word, do you understand me, you will stand here, you wont say a word and you will let me and Strider sort out this mess, understand?"
Kaldur's only reply was to mime zipping his lips shut and, sighing in exasperation, Legolas turned back to the other elves and Estel, concealing their conversation in elvish the two tried to sort out the mess.
"Well a couple of months back Strider and I had a running with a band of thieves in the western lands near the barrow downs, Kaldur was the lead bandit."
Kaldur smiled at the sound of his name, he had no idea whatsoever what they were going on about, but it was nice to be appreciated.
"You mean to say he escaped from you" asked Haldir in surprise, he had never known Legolas to let anyone escape before, and although he didn't know Strider as well as the Mirkwood elf he could have sworn that Strider would not be that careless either."
"No, he didn't escape, we let him go, don't ask" Legolas said hurriedly at the look of confusion on the elves face "I'll explain properly soon, in the meanwhile lets say any punishment that we would have given to him would have done more harm than good to him due to his past. Anyway, on our way here we met Kaldur in an inn and, despite us telling him not to follow us, he decided to anyway, so here is."
"I see" said Haldir, though he still looked slightly confused. "I don't know what we're going to do about him then, I suppose the only thing to do is to take him to the lord and the lady of the wood"
Legolas and Aragorn looked at each other before nodding slowly in agreement. It seemed to be the only option, they couldn't let him leave now he had past the borders, leastways not without the lord and lady's permission but the two friends were worried about the effect (affect? A/N ok could someone please explain in a review the difference between effect and affect cause otherwise I am going to have to keep doing one and putting the other in brackets.) that the human would have on the rulers of the wood.
They thought that Galadriel could probably keep her temper in Kaldur's presence, after all, one summer when Legolas, Aragorn, and the twins had visited Lothlorien she had been left in a tree and almost caught by orcs, suspended in nets, and soaked with water. They were pretty sure therefore that she could handle one infuriating human.
Lord Celeborn however was different matter. He was decidedly short tempered, and although both kind and wise, he was quick to lose his temper when anyone annoyed, played tricks or in any other way wound him up. There was nothing for it though and so the elves and the ranger turned back to where Kaldur had been standing, only he wasn't there any more.
Groaning Legolas took of in a run in the direction that Kaldur's tracks led and he returned several minutes later dragging a grinning Kaldur behind him.
"You know Legolas" Kaldur said, his grin wavering slightly "you wanna loosen up a bit on your grip, you kind of cutting off the circulation in my arm mate."
"Oh" said Legolas, trying to sound surprised, but not doing a very good job "I didn't realise" Loosening his grip slightly Legolas led the human back to the group and Strider turned to the human.
"Kaldur, we are going to take you to the leaders of this wood, however very few mortals can walk unhindered through these woods and so you will be blindfolded, and no" he said as the bandit looked like he was going to cut in "we wont be untying you, I know that if you run we can catch you very easily but frankly I doubt that any of us want the bother of chasing after you, understand?"
"Yup, perfectly, so, where am I going anyway?"
"To the heart of the wood, Caras Galadhon, the dwelling of the Lord Celeborn and the Lady Galadriel."
"Galadriel, isn't she that witc... never mind" he finished hastily; the glares of the elves had intensified.
"Kaldur" Legolas hissed in the mans ear. "Whatever you do, do not insult the Lady, is that understood."
Nodding once more, Kaldur allowed Legolas to blindfold his eyes and the company finally moved off.
"Are we there yet" asked Kaldur, when they had been walking for about half a hour.
"No" replied one of the Lorien elves.
"How bout now" he asked when five more minutes had passed.
"No" replied another elf, gritting his teeth slightly in annoyance.
"What about...ahhh" Kaldur cried out suddenly bringing his bound hands up to his ears and stopping for a second.
"What is it Kaldur" asked Legolas quickly.
"Nothin I just heard a voice in my head, which in itself isn't all that surprising as I quite often hear voices in my head. Very nice voices they are too, but this one was different, I've never heard this one before and it isn't saying the usual mumbo jumbo that my mind comes up with..."
He trailed off yet again as he realised that the elves were probably staring at him in surprise. He couldn't see them of course, but his time in Rivendell had shown him that he often had that affect(effect?) on elves. He was quite pleased actually, winding people up had always been a favourite hobby of his, and it was something he was especially good at.
"Don't worry Kaldur" said Strider grinning, "Your not insane, well actually you are insane, but this voice isn't more proof of your insanity, it is the lady of the wood, I got a bit of a shock the first time she spoke in my head as well. Probably more so than you as strange voices in my head don't seem to be as ordinary an occurrence as they are with you."
"You know" Kaldur said thoughtfully "I'm no saying she is a witch or anything, but she does have extremely witch like tendencies for someone who isn't a sorceress."
Kaldur was actually quite glad of the blindfold just then, he had a feeling that if he could see the faces of the Lorien elves he would probably be lying in a frazzled heap on the floor due to ten or so deadly elvish glares.
He heard a soft laughing in his head, but this time he managed to refrain from exclaiming in surprise as he heard the voice of the lady.
"So I am a witch am I Kaldur?" the voice said, "That is one thing I haven't been called to my knowledge before"
"Ah" Kaldur replied out loud, ignoring the fact that everyone was probably staring at him yet again. "Maybe you ain't been called it in here, but in the villages nearby they often mention an enchanted forest in which lives an evil sorceress, although" he said thoughtfully, "you don't sound that evil to me, bit creepy with the whole talking in peoples head thing though, I can see where the witch stories come from"
Again the tinkling laugh was heard in his ear and then he heard her voice no more, for the moment at least.
All of a sudden he felt the blindfold being removed and, blinking suddenly as his eyes came into contact with the bright sun once more he saw Haldir standing in front of him, a slight frown marring his usually fair features.
"The lady sends word to say that you need not be blindfolded" he said grudgingly "Apparently she trusts that you won't betray us...though I can't imagine why" he mumbled the last bit quietly to himself but Kaldur heard it anyway.
"Hey, I heard that mate, you can't hide anything from me, I have the ears of a...a..." he seemed lost for a comparison for moment but as he stared round the clearing he grinned and said. "The ears of an elf, they just don't do the whole pointy thing, always liked the idea of having pointy ears personally but I suppose beggars can't be choosers, and I am particularly good looking, if I do say so..."
"Kaldur, shut up, or I'll gag you with your blindfold since we have no further use for it."
Once more Kaldur mimed zipping his lips and the company walked on once more, in temporarily blissful peace.
Finally they reached the city, much to the relief of all the elves, Kaldur's silence hadn't really lasted long and all the elves had come very close to strangling the human. Aragorn had managed to refrain himself, he had never found Kaldur as annoying as the elves had so he had managed to survive the incessant chatter Kaldur had put up.
As they passed through the gates Kaldur looked around himself in awe as he saw the shimmering buildings in the flets. He had thought Rivendell beautiful, but this gold and silver city took his breath away.
(well that is about seven pages long so that'll have to do for this chapter, however I am moving on to the next chapter straight away now for several reasons, firstly I have lots of ideas, and secondly my brother is sitting in the living room, which I would have to go through in order to get to my room, and as he told me he was going to kill me one day, about an hour ago, I'm going to wait for a bit till he has decided that he is to young to murder someone. So basically, what I was getting at was that if I get enough reviews I will probably be able to put up the next chapter pretty quickly.)
