Disclaimer: A while back I wrote a letter to J.R.R Tolkien asking him to give me Lord of the Rings.... Or maybe just Legolas, and Haldir, and Faramir...
On with the storrrieeee
That morning the retreat calls were sounded in the great walls of Edoras. Women, children, men and animals were herded of towards Helms Deep. Ellie rode her horse, Moonstar, at the head by the King. She didn't know exactly what plagued her, but she could hear an all familiar voice of the Lady Galadriel in her head. –You shall rise above them all. He is coming to your side, they will both encourage you. You need not fear. - She didn't really understand what they voice meant, and then it changed to that voice of Gandalf, -You are destined for great things, Ellie, much will happen in your time- She sighed in frustration. Moonstar felt his rider's anxiety and lightly trotted around himself until she kicked him. She urged him ahead, and then broke out into a sprint away from the travelers.
Aragorn leaned over to the King, "Has someone upset her?" Legolas followed her with his eyes and shook his head, "Nay, she is elf Aragorn. She can feel the evil that approaches, and she doesn't want to be part of it, unless she can do something about it."
Ellie reached Helms Deep with the first wave of travelers. Eomer followed with the second and Eowyn with the third. With Eomer had come the Hobbits. As soon as they saw Ellie the dragged her off into a corner to eat.
"... and that Theoden King, great King of Rohan is why you should fight." Aragorn concluded with a nod. Hama, now riding next to the King nodded. "My Lord, your people would follow you into Mordor and beyond. We wish to protect our land, my great King." Theoden looked up and saw that they had reached the walls of Helms Deep, and rode in. He dismounted and looked around at his people, and cleared his throat. "We have come to Helms Deep to protect ourselves," he began, everyone turned to look at him. Ellie stood up and gently pulled Pippen out of her way. Eomer stood up from behind a large pillar he had been leaning on. The King nodded at the sight of his advisors and continued, his voice still sounding soft and weak, "But with protection we need defense, we have to defend our walls." Silence fell over the city, "All women will be taken and barred in the caves with their children. Today we stand and fight. Every man and boy able to weld a sword, will!!" Tears rang out from the women as the clasped their boys in their arms.
"I am afraid Merry." Sam sighed, "I don't think Mr. Frodo is feeling to well..." Sam pulled out some pots and looked at them. "It's the Ring. It's getting to him. I feel so bad he has to bear this heavy burden, if you catch my meaning."
"Is this the end?"
"No."
"I am scared, I feel like I am endangering my people."
"Rohan will not fall."
"How can you be so sure?"
"I feel it in my blood."
"Elainor, My child, guts can be wrong."
"No, not mine."
"We have three hundred men. Some who have never seen a sword in their lives, now they stand at the walls awaiting death."
"Death will be better for them, than to live to see Sauron take Middle Earth."
"But ten thousand? Ten thousand? This is no war, it is genocide,"
"My king," She said as she finished strapping on his armor, "Helms Deep will hold us."
She walked away and went to her own room to ready herself.-Elainor?- "Yes, Lady of Light?"
-You know what you must do, it is you they fear, not anyone else-
"Yes"
-Are you afraid?-
"I am,"
-Do not fear, the tides have turned-
Ellie looked up, she heard horns in the distance for many days. Now the horns were sounding from inside the walls. Shouting and cheering sounded through the fort. Ellie put on her wristbands, and sheathed Lothamin, since her sword found itself lost, and picked up various daggers and put them into her belt. She braided her hair and put it in a tight bun, and ran down the steps. Despite the screaming she could hear Eomer's laughing, and called to him. She then stopped dead in her tracks as a familiar face looked up at her. Legolas had him in a tight hug and was muttering to him in elvish. She flew down the steps and wrapped her arms and his neck. "Haldir! What brings you so far from Lorien?"
"I bring word from the lady," He took her into a hug and spoke into her ear, so that not even the elves could hear, "She says to you, Lothamin, ere the sunrises you will rise above all and call for aid from the water and the sky." Ellie looked at him. "Why does she speak in riddles? Why?" Haldir sighed, "Lothamin, speak the words that were spoken to raise the water valar." "Water?" He nodded, and gave her hand a tight squeeze. She noticed that on his neck he still wore her necklace, and she smiled her hand going up to his necklace around her neck.
Aragorn was standing on the wall. Haldir had positioned his archers, 5000 of them, along the wall and at different openings along the stairs. Ellie looked over at Legolas, next to him stood Haldir and next to him stood Aragorn. –I never thought I would see them standing next to each other, fighting for one cause.- Ellie looked at the dwarf that stood next to Legolas. "I will kill more than you Master Elf." He grinned. –I love that dwarf- she thought, and turned and placed a hand on Merry's back. Standing on the wall with her were Merry, Sam and Pippen. They had voted to keep the hobbits in the caves with the women and children, but they resisted. They had voted to keep Frodo in the caves, and the look of despair as he was sealed into the caves he had on made Ellie and Sam cry. Sam smiled as he held a sword in his hand and looked at the oncoming horror.
And then enemy arrows flew at the walls. It had begun. Rain started to pour down and Ellie took one last look towards Haldir and Legolas who had already sent out many arrows. Ellie ordered the archers to fire. She made her way close to her boys and smiled, "Legolas! Haldir! Lle naa curucuar!" you are skillful bowmen and then took off to the side where the hobbits had rushed when the arrows took off. She reached them just in time to intercept an arrow before it hit Pippen. "Nice catch," he yelled. She let loose two arrows and felled two orcs. Then she saw it. Large metal bridges being hooked onto the wall and thousands of orcs piling over. Legolas had already pulled out his daggers. Haldir had drawn his sword and Anduril was flashing wildly about. Gimli was hacking away at orcs and screaming out numbers "23! 24! 25!... uhhh.. 36!!" –cheater- her mind laughed.
Orcs came piling over the wall and she drew her sword (Lothamin) and began mentally noting how far the hobbits were getting from her. She drove towards the hobbits, and became surrounded by Orcs. She drew a dagger from her belt and threw it at an orc. It hit him in the head, she twirled and severed two orc heads in her spin bent down and picked up her dagger from the orc and threw it at another. She repeated this a few times.
The hobbits were fighting fiercely. Sam toke his sword and drove it threw one orc, "Aiii-yaa!!" he turned around and stuck another orc, "That's for Mr. Frodo!!", he turned again, "that's for the Shire!!" "That's for my old gaffer!!" "And that is for Boromir!!!" he screamed. Pippen and Merry were beating down many orcs as well, "Take that you coward!!" Pippen screamed as he kicked an orc in the back of the knee, when the orc turned around to address his assailant, Pippen screamed, "Merry! Help me!" Merry would then severe the orc's head and they would trade. Merry would kick an orc and Pippen would kill it.
Haldir and Legolas stood back to back, fighting orcs and arguing. "She loves me!" Legolas screamed. "Behind you mellon amin(my friend)," and Legolas would duck as Haldir swung his sword and killed the orc behind Legolas. "No, great prince, her love for you is but a fraction of her love for me!!" Legolas would then answer, "Behind you, nen mellon!" And Haldir would duck as Legolas swung his twin daggers into its neck at the side and would cross them severing the neck. "Haldir how could she love you? Lle holma ve' edan!!" (You smell like a human!) Haldir swung his sword at Legolas's head without warning and Legolas ducked just in time. Haldir's sword severed another orc head. "Legolas! Auta Miqula yrch!" (Go kiss an orc!) They turned back to back again.
Aragorn and Gimli were hacking away at orcs and then they looked over to scan for the hobbits.
Legolas's eyes scanned the scene for the hobbits. Haldir turned to search for hobbits.
Ellie raised her sword and pushed it through two orcs. She turned, as she heard Legolas and Haldir yell in unison, "Ellie!!! Yrch! Dengina!! Ellie Dengina asca!!" (Ellie!! Orc! Kill it! Ellie kill it, Hurry!!!) She turned around and watched Merry and Pippen play their little game, she turned to Sam and saw him on the floor feeling for his sword, his eyes wide with fear. She was too far for use of a dagger. She could hear Legolas running, she could hear Haldir screaming. Aragorn was rushing from the other side followed by Gimli, she loaded an arrow and pointed. ::BEAT::BEAT::BEAT:: Release!! Her arrow flew true, and embedded itself into the head of the orc. It keel over sparing Sam, she saw another orc step onto the platform, she fired another arrow. Then an orc came out from behind the wall of the stairs, she couldn't see it because a large rock jutted out blocking her vision. They all saw it too late. At the same time Ellie loaded her bow, Haldir was standing on the ledge of the wall, aiming, and Legolas was leaning over the wall bow taut.
Three arrows rang out, and an orc blade came crashing down. Merry and Pippen turned and looked on the scene they stood in and had not noticed until now. A river of blood covered the staircase, and the platform. Pippen grabbed Merry and pulled him out of the blood his was standing in. Ellie ran for her friends and slipped on the blood being thrown backward and she hit the hard stone, she heard a loud crunching noise, and fought it. Haldir ran across the ledge and Legolas followed. Ellie got up to find herself covered in blood. Her back, her cheeks, her hands and knees. Aragorn was next to reach the fallen hobbit and slipped and fell and slid head first into a wall. More crunching sounds and then Gimli slammed into Ellie and again she flew back and hit the wall. A ball rolled on its side and she noticed it for the first time. She gasped in horror as Haldir landed almost on the severed head followed by Legolas. She tackled both elves and reached for the head just in time and took into her hand and stared at it. Ellie held a curly blonde mane in her hand and held up eye level. Everything went silent. She couldn't hear the swords clanging anymore, she couldn't hear arrows whizzing by her head. She couldn't hear her comrades dying. All she saw was a pair of blue lips and a white face knotted in horror. She screamed. Ellie cradled Sam's head to her chest and wobbled over to the body and tried to place the head back on the body as if it would reattach itself all the while screaming. Her scream rang all over middle earth, and back in the quiet peaceful hobbition hobbits hid under their bed afraid of the scream. Legolas reached her first. Ellie couldn't tell friend from foe and took out a dagger and slashed his arm as it reached over her shoulder to drag her away from Sam. Legolas grabbed the length of his right arm as it bled hard. Haldir ripped off his cloak and torn it enough to make a bond for Legolas. Tying the bond tightly to his friend, he grabbed Ellie's dagger hand, and pulled her up. Her fist came in contact with his nose and he was thrown off balance by the blood and fell down the stairs.
Ellie's shrill screaming didn't stop. She stood up and sure as it was she rose. Her eyes changed from that beautiful deep blue to black. The whole eye, even the whites turned black. She started chanting in black speech and the rain cam down harder. "Ellie!!! No!!" Haldir whimpered as he turned over and grasped his bleeding ears. Legolas was keeled over and crying as blood came down from his ears. The rest of the elven army that had followed Haldir were on the ground heads between their knees crying as blood poured down their faces. Ellie's chant was a shrill scream, and all over middle earth elves cried and blood poured from their ears. Soon, Elves, Men, Hobbits, Dwarves, Wizards and Orcs were cowering on the ground in their own blood. Ellie rose higher in the air and continued screaming. Legolas rolled down the stair and landed on Haldir. Legolas crawled over to his friend and watched as tears stormed down his face. "Legolas..." his voice was faint and but a mere whisper, "Mornie utlile!" (Darkness falls) At this Legolas buried his head in Haldir's shoulder and covered his own ears again and they began to weep.
All over Middle Earth elves wept. In Imladris Arwen was in her father's study on the floor screaming in pain. Her brothers were on their knees beside her with their heads leaning on hers, ears covered. Elrond sat with his children, ears covered, with blood covering his regal attire. "Ada..." Arwen screamed "Amin mela lle... Dengina lle. Tenna' San' Mandos!" (roughly translated as: Father, I love you. We are dying. I will see you again in the Halls of Mandos.)
In Lothlorien Lord Celeborn cradled his wife as tears and blood mixed to together, "Amin mela lle... Tenna' San' Mandos Melamin.." In other parts of Lorien Orophin, Haldir's brother sat on his knees in front of his daughter. Tears of distraught befell him as he watched his wife die and his daughter stand with tears in her eyes as her small hands barely cupped her ears. Her father, placed his hands over her ears as her shrieks continued. "Mama!!! Ada!! Tanya Awra! Ada... Ada." (Mama, Father, it hurts, it hurts so bad) Orophin cradled his daughter as blood poured from his ears, his only concern was his baby.
Rumil was in the guard talan on his knees. When the screaming started Orophin ran to his family to protect them. Rumil lay in a pool of his own blood and wept bitterly. He looked to the sky and begged the valar to forgive middle earth, then he called for his older brother, "Haldir!! Brother!! What have we done as to have the valar curse us so? Why do they hate us? Daro! Daro, Eru Daro!!(stop, stop Eru, stop!) Haldir, Haldir brother I wish you swift death! Brother! Valar why? Haldir it is the end!"
And from far away the valar wept. They watched as their beautiful creation come boiling over, they watched as the ring bearers held their loved ones close and lay in each other's arms near death.
Aragorn looked into the sky and before passing out screamed to his beloved. "Undomiel!! Undomiel? Ona ta a'lumenn!! Umdomiel!! Mornie utlile!! Melamin.." (Evenstar! Evenstar? Give me light! Evenstar! Darkness Falls!)
Ellie rose higher her screams louder. Below her all the orcs had died. Men lay taking their last breath, and elves still cried. Then suddenly it broke into her. The Necklace around her neck stared to burn in her chest and in her mind she saw Haldir. She saw him running around in a garden of Lorien. He was but an elfing. Then she saw his coming to age party. Then the birth of his brothers. Still shrieking, her gaze shifted from the sky to the carnage underneath her. There he was on the ground next to Legolas, what was it... He was laying in his own blood. She noticed her shrieking, her heart froze. She let Sam's head go. It dropped down into the dead Orcs. She looked all about her and heard the tears of the Elves. Then it stopped. She just closed her mouth. Tears formed at eyes as she looked at what she had caused. The people who loved her lay dying around her. Suddenly she realized she was still in the air, and let herself fall to the landing closest to the two being she loved. She ran to them. She pulled Legolas into her arms and tugged at Haldir's limp form. She managed to pull him close and his eyes fluttered open. He looked into her eyes and looked at Legolas. He lay unconscious in her other arm, Haldir touched his knee and his eyes opened as well. They looked at each other for a moment, and then at Ellie. Legolas smiled and then broke out into tears. Ellie clutched both elves to her and wept until darkness took her.
A red sun rose that morning. Gandalf rode into Helms Deep, with what remained of the reinforcements he had sought after. He looked around as Man, Elf, and Dwarf helped each other. He had spoken to Galadriel and she told him that all the elves had lived through the experience, but that she feared for those at helms deep since she could make any connection with them. Middle Earth was silent as the sun rose, and stayed that way until late afternoon.
Theoden son of Thingol was carried into the burial chambers that morning. Aragorn was carried into the middle of the fortress, the great hall of the king, which served as healers wing at the moment. Elves were carried in and ushered out to bed made of anything between linens to chain mail coats. Gimli the dwarf held the young hobbits Frodo, Merry and Pippen, close as the four slept. Two elves picked up Legolas and carried him into the healers wing, and two more picked up Haldir. Ellie was picked up by a cautious elf and placed among the women.
Soon friends began waking up and hugging each other. Soon the Fellowship had gathered together, and Haldir joined them. Gandalf sat at a table with Eomer and Eowyn on his either side. Next to Eowyn sat Aragorn and Gimli, and with Eomer sat the hobbits. Legolas and Haldir strolled leaning on each other for support, Legolas' arm in a sling. They scanned the room, and Gandalf reading their thoughts asked them to take a seat as he explained the happenings of the night before. "Ellie, is our friend," he began. "Her love and dedication to the Fellowship, and its quest was a high priority for her. It was the first time she felt she had approval, the first time people cared about her. The first time she fell in love. Ellie dedicated her mind and soul to protecting Frodo, and into protecting everyone around her. She has not watched her friends die once but multiple times. She watched me fall, she watched Boromir die, she watched her father die and the ring danced around her mind as she resisted it. Last night a lot of pressure was put on her, she felt as though it was in someway here fault that Sam was lost to us." Pippen and Frodo put their heads on the table and began to weep. "This quest has not failed. Saruman has been utterly extinguished and his followers wiped out. We have but to turn to Gondor and protect them. With the aid of Gondor we will take Mordor, and finish off what should have been done ages ago..."
Ellie opened her eyes. She looked round for either of her elves but she could see none. She swung her feet off the mithril plating, and looked down on her necklace. It still glowed warmly. She stood up and walked to the main door of the hall. She stepped out into the sunshine and shielded her eyes with her right hand. Her left arm was in a sling attached to a splint. She walked among the fields, and every time she came across a fallen elf she bent over him and prayed. She felt lost and detached. Her mind didn't say anything. It was silent as she walked as if a drone and silent tears came down her eyes. She wept for her friends. For all the fallen elves that had lost their light in the darkness.
She sat on a large jut of land in the middle of the sea of dead and tears fell down her face. Finally she found her voice and suddenly began softly singing to the wind, her voice was low so that she made sure no one could hear her, "When the cold of winter comes, starless night will cover day, in the veiling of the sun, we will walk in bitter rain. But in dreams, I can hear your name, and dreams, we will met again, again." Ellie cried, her heart pounded. Little did she know that Galadriel heard her, little did she know that all the elves of middle earth were singing with her. In the great halls of Helms Deep all the elves had their heads bowed and they were singing, even Haldir and Legolas had their heads bowed and tears fell from their eyes and they sang. Rumil held Orophin and his niece and they sang. Galadriel and Celeborn sang. Arwen and Elrond sang. Elrohir and Elladan sang. King Thranduil sang. Ellie sang, "When the seas and mountains fall, and come to end of days, in the dark I hear a call, calling me there, I will go there and back again."
All of Middle Earth sang and loved ones wept for those lost in the battle of Helms Deep. Ellie laid her head down and sang, "Mornie utlile, believe and you will find your way..." Her voice trailed off as tears streamed down her face. –It is so strange that we must suffer so much for a ring. It is strange that brother will fight brother, friend will kill friend, Father will bury son, son will bury Father. All because of one ring. How come you to curse us so Eru!! What have we done to deserve torment? Why are you doing this? Valar? How have we wronged you? Why do you place torment in our home and pain in our hearts? Why have you cursed us? Answer me! Why do you hurt us so? We are your creation, we are your bane, why have you cursed us so?- Ellie cried until her body was weak and she prayed for death that would not come. And so silence over took her again and she sat broken on the jut of land, until it rained again.
Haldir searched for Ellie through hall and stair. Legolas searched for her in the healing wing. He questioned several maids and they could give not a hint of where she had gone. Legolas climbed the wall in resign and spotted Haldir sitting with his head in his hands, he rushed to his side and knelt by him, "Friend, are you in need of assistance?" Haldir looked open his eyes and looked is new friend. Strange occurrences had brought these two together. "Legolas. We won. Legolas, we won the battle of Helms Deep." They began to sob again, this time tears of regret. "Haldir? I am sorry friend." "Legolas? Where is she?"
It rained hard as Ellie stood up and smiled. –Undying lands- her mind called out. She thought of white beaches and a world of happiness. She walked back to the Fort and searched for the two elves that held her heart. She finally found them sitting next to each other in silence, tears streaming down their faces. She walked to them and sat cross legged before them. They were all pale, trembling. Haldir pull her in between them and they sat together in silence. "I want to sail away. I want to go to Valinor." The three looked at each other. "As I would." They responded together.
A/N: Wow, this was a painful chapter to write. I cried like twelve times. The song the elves sing is called, "The Breaking of The Fellowship- movie theme " By Howard Shore. I thought it was fitting. I played it in repeat mode since the battle started, and it really gave that feeling of despair and all is lost.
So what do you think?
Stay tuned for next time!!! This story is going to go far beyond the books and movie, and for all my Legolas lovers... don't worry!!! His time is coming!! Oh, I am sorry I have to kill like two people in very chapter. Oh! And gollum makes a guest start appearance!!!