Yes, the ditch leaving would leave Legolas trapped in the ground. But let us not forget that Legolas isn't exactly sane. Thanks for the reviews. They are ever insightful. Honest!
Stuck In A Ditch
"Tiny!" shrieked Legolas, stamping his foot. "Ugh! How am I going to get out?" And, at that moment, a wonderful idea popped into his head that he thought someone had whispered it to him.
Indeed his thoughts were true, for a monkey passing by felt so sorry for the delusional and desperate elf that he hung low on branch and muttered, "Wait for the next monsoonal period and float out when the water fills up the ditch and rises."
Of course this was a stupid idea, and the monkey knew it. As much as the monkey pitied Legolas, he couldn't help but set him up for a horrible shock. Perhaps it is just a monkey's nature to laugh at other's suffering.
He swung away, leaving Legolas waiting happily. And happily did he wait, for he was confident that he would soon be getting out.
He waited.
And waited.
And waited.
And kept waiting till finally did it rain. Legolas had never been so glad in his life. "Oh glorious rain!" he laughed, "I would marry you if you were not but mere water!" And he paused to ponder this. Did it matter that rain was just water?
No, Legolas decided, it didn't!
Legolas, however, did not marry the water that day (rest assured), but watched it gleefully as it swam around his ankles, giggling when it entered his shoes.
His joy was short lived, for the rain soon stopped and Legolas had to live in knee-deep water. When it rained again, the water that he had "stored" had shallowed by half and the new load merely brought it waist high.
The weather soon got cold, and Legolas, sick of waiting, decided to hibernate. Not that he had much choice. This was rather unfortunate because he missed the frenzied calls of possible aid.
Then one day, Thranduil himself came to see his son's newfound accommodation. Legolas's brother had finally decided to relive the horrors and speak up. The soldiers who went with him saw a pathetic shape buried in the ice.
"Get him out of there," ordered Thranduil crossly, and the soldiers got to work. They all removed their breeches and sat on the ice, hoping to melt it. Unfortunately, the thick layer of frost required more than cold backsides to melt it that the poor elves soon found their rears frozen to it.
"This isn't working," observed Thranduil, and thought for a bit. "We're leaving. We'll come back in spring when he has thawed."
And so Legolas lay in the ice for many more months.
Spring came, flowers blossomed, yet the ice refused to liquefy. A very upset Thranduil arrived once more and wept over the loss of his surplus child.
He turned on the waterworks, and, as his tears hit the ice, the coolness disappeared and the ice turned to water. It was his hidden love that set Legolas free.
Aw…how sweet. Almost saccharine…
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