They pressed on, making their way to the cliff face that was said to have the doors that led to Moria. Kendra watched as Gimli and Gandalf moved down the wall, tapping occasionally as if they were listening for something.
"Dwarf doors are invisible when closed," Gimli said, tapping again.
"Yes, Gimli, not even their own masters can find them if there secrets are forgotten," Gandalf said from up front.
"Why doesn't that surprise me?" Legolas muttered.
This earned a growl from Gimli. Soon, Gandalf found what he was looking for. He said it was ithildin, a metal that reflected only starlight and moonlight. They watched as the moon came from behind a cloud and the doors soon glowed. They were giant doors and the carvings were unusual, at least to Kendra's mind. Gandalf translated them and then proceeded to try and open them. 'Try' being the main word.
"It's not working," was the next thing she heard.
Gandalf tried again and still the doors didn't open. Kendra sat down on a rock underneath one of the dead trees that was on either side of the door. This was going to be a long night.

About an hour later, they were still sitting outside the doors. Gandalf had run through every spell he could think of. Nothing worked. Kendra looked around her at the rest of the Fellowship. Legolas had moved to stand behind her underneath the tree. Sam and Aragorn were dealing with Bill the pony while Merry and Pippin were tossing rocks into the blackened waters of the lake they were next to. Gimli had pulled out his pipe and seemed to be staring at absolutely nothing.
"Oh, I give up," Gandalf said, throwing his staff down and then sitting down himself.
Frodo looked up at this point and then quickly stood up. "It's a riddle," he muttered.
The water rippled at this point, but not from rocks being thrown into it. Aragorn had stopped that seconds earlier.
"What's the elvish word for 'friend'?"
"Mellon."
A grating sound was heard and both Legolas and Kendra moved to get away from the opening doors. Boromir and Aragorn were herding the two younger hobbits into the mines while looking back at where the ripples were. Kendra herself could understand why they were so edgy. Something was wrong, but what it was, she didn't know. The members of the Fellowship followed Gandalf into the darkness of the mines and waited while he put a crystal onto the top of his staff. All the while, Gimli was talking.
"Roaring fires,...ripe meat off the bone," she heard him saying. "This, my friend, is the home of my cousin, Balin. And they call it a mine. A mine."
Light fell on the scene of death just inside the door. Corpses everywhere. Most were nothing but bones.
"This isn't a mine," Boromir said, looking around, "it's a tomb."
"No. NO!" Gimli shouted.
Legolas had gone to one of the corpses and pulled out an arrow. "Goblins!" was all he said.
He threw the arrow and pulled one of his own. Aragorn and Boromir pulled their swords while the Hobbits pulled their daggers.
"We should never have come here."
'Best observation of the century,' Kendra thought.
"GET OUT!" Boromir shouted.
The Hobbits were already moving. But the next thing they heard, "Strider!"
Aragorn looked back at the use of his Ranger name and saw Frodo being pulled out of the mines. Merry and Pippin were trying to pull Frodo away from the tentacles that had suddenly appeared. Sam was hacking away at the one that had Frodo's ankle. It didn't do anything except throw them away with another tentacle. Boromir and Aragorn at this time had come of the mines and were hacking away at the tentacles. A string sung as Legolas let loose an arrow. Kendra watched as Frodo was flung about in the air, screaming.
"Legolas, into its eye," Aragorn shouted.
Legolas let loose another arrow as Aragorn and Boromir waded back to the shore, Boromir holding Frodo who he had caught when the creature had let go. Legolas quickly pushed Kendra through the open doorway as the rest of the Fellowship came through. They all turned just in time to watch the creature pull the doorway down behind them, effectively blocking their only chance of getting out. All went silent, except for the sounds of breathing.