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Glorfindel or no Glorfindel, that is the question...
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Chapter 7
Lea was happily trotting down the road, now carrying dear Samwise (who didn't seem to enjoy the ride very much...) Strider was carefully leading them close to the road again as it was the only way to cross the bridge and continue on.
Peregrin and Meriadoc were walking alongside them, trying, and miserably failing, to teach Lea their Genealogy.
"So you and Pippin are cousins?"
"Yes, my mother was the brother of Paladin, Pip's father..."
"Making us first cousins" Pippin piped up.
"...but my great-grandmother Mirabella was the sister of great-grandfather Hildigrim."
"Thus making us third cousins too" Pippin happily concluded.
"But where does Frodo come in in all this, he's your cousin also, isn't he?" Lea asked, looking at the hobbit in question, who was currently walking alongside Aragorn.
Merry nodded and continued on about their family records, telling all about how Frodo was related to him and Peregrin trough both his Took and Brandybuck heritage.
At the end of it all Lea felt more than a little confused and turned to Sam; "So, how did you end up with these hobbits then, are you related to them too?"
Sam shook his head, though when he realised that Lea couldn't see it, since he was on her back he answered; "No miss, I'm Frodo's gardener."
"Ah." Lea said, her head swimming with the new information and wondering if she was expected to remember it all. "Of course..." she concluded and shook her head, trying to stop the upcoming headache.
Suddenly Strider stopped and picked something up, then he turned around and smiled; "I'll take this as a sign that the bridge is safe." he said, holding a green stone in his hand.
"What is it?" Pippin was swift to ask while Lea exclaimed "Ooooh, Pretty stone!" at the same time.
Aragorn smiled at the look of awe on the unicorns face and then turned to the curious Took; "This is a Beryl, an Elvin stone."
"Elfish?" Sam asked, looking brightly at the Beryl.
Aragorn nodded with a small smile on his face at Sam's enthusiasm.
"Elfish Prettiness!" Lea said, still looking at the stone in awe.
The ranger smiled and but the stone in his pocket; "I think it's save to cross the bridge, let us go."
The hobbits and unicorn nodded and continued on silently, desperately hoping that they wouldn't be found.
After crossing the bridge, Strider quickly led them of the road again and their journey to Rivendell continued.
Frodo was being carried by Lea at the moment and the group was getting closer to the Elfish valley, it was almost sunset but they continued on in haste.
Strider was telling them about Rivendell; "It's also known as the last homely home of Lord Elrond or as Imladris, Rivendell in Elfish."
He continued on telling them bits about Lord Elrond, the twins and Arwen until Lea interrupted him; "How do you know so much about Rivendell, Strider?"
The ranger smiled and told her he grew up there.
"But... why? I mean, you told me that Imladris is inhabited by elves... And you, obviously, are not." Lea continued on asking, thinking back to the ranger's description of elves.
"My mother knew Lord Elrond and went to live in Rivendell after my father died." answered Aragorn, in a tone that told them that this subject was now closed.
The unicorn could easily pick that up and nodded, accepting that as an answer, she was about to ask something else about elves in general when she heard a noise.
"What's that?" she whispered, looking at the ranger in fear. 'Please don't let it be those Ringwraiths.'
Aragorn held up a hand to silence everyone, though it was highly unnecessary, everyone seemed to be holding their breaths, hoping that it weren't Ringwraiths.
(Nice place for a cliffie!)
The ranger heard the galloping of horses coming closer and there was no doubt in his mind that these were the creatures they wanted to avoid.
"Lea, take Frodo ahead to Rivendell, just continue straight on and cross the ford!"
The unicorn hesitated; "But why? Why Frodo? What's going on?"
"Just do it, GO!" Aragorn urged her.
Lea took one last look at the distraught ranger and the remaining hobbits, then she turned and told Frodo to hold on tight before running in the direction of Rivendell, faster then any normal horse, as fast as a unicorn can go.
The hobbits and Strider looked on in awe as they saw the girl, no unicorn running unbelievable fast along with the setting sun.
Only seconds after she left the Ringwraiths came from the trees behind them, the hobbits and ranger jumped out of the way as fast as they could and for a moment it seemed the wraiths would attack them, but their leader made a terrible sound and beckoned them on, to follow the creature ahead of them.
When they were gone the hobbits slowly got up and looked at Aragorn who was staring in the direction of Rivendell, his childhood home.
"Strider?" Pippin began carefully "Wh-what do we do now?"
The ranger sighed and turned to the hobbits, looking at each of them in turn, before looking in the distance again. "Now, my friends? Now we continue on to Rivendell and hope for the best..."