TO SPEAK WITH ONE'S HANDS
Sign Language
Two days later they found a small lake which they decided to stay at so everyone could bath and replenish there strength.
Legolas stayed with the hobbits to set up camp while the others checked the surrounding area. When they had finished Legolas continued to help the hobbits sign language as he had been doing each night while they waited for the others to return.
Legolas would write a word in the sand and then do the sign for them. Once he had done a few he would do a sign and they had to tell him the meaning. It had turned into something of a game for the hobbit which they seemed to have lots of fun playing. While Legolas was doing this with the hobbits Aragorn would usually teach the rest of the fellowship in a more civilised manner.
"Legolas?"
The elf turned his attention to Pippin.
"Can we go for a swim while e wait for the others to come back?"
Legolas thought for a minute then signed for them to wait and listen.
He stood then cupped his mouth with his hands and let out a series of Animal and Bird noises before lowering his hands and listening along with the hobbits.
After a moment the hobbits could hear another series of sounds which Legolas nodded at then turned to the Hobbits and he directed then towards the lake for a swim.
The Prince sat in a nearly tree watching the hobbits as they bathed and swam in the Lake below him.
The hobbits called for him to join them numerous times and in the end he striped off his tunic, boots, wrist guards and weapons before diving off the tree into the water below making sure that he splashed the hobbits as he entered the water.
It seemed however that this was what someone had been waiting for as a group of Uruk-Hai and men came out of the trees. Two of them quickly gathered the weapons that had been left on the shore while the rest surrounded the small lake cutting off any escape.