Sam's Thoughts

Elvish translations

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They walked out of Fangorn and Gandalf whistled. A large white horse appeared over a nearby hill and galloped towards them.

"That is one of the Mearas, unless my eyes are cheated by some spell." Legolas stated obviously amazed.

"Shadowfax. He is the lord of all horses..." Gandalf said as the horse stopped in front of him and he started to pat it. "...and has been my friend through many dangers"

Gandalf climbed onto the horse and before she could protest he pulled Sam on in front of him. Then others mounted their horses and they rode off to Edoras.

"So M'lady. How is it that you come to be travelling with the Fellowship?" Gandalf asked as they rode towards Edoras.

"I was kidnapped by orcs and sort of ran into them." She explained, yelling over the wind. "Is that the only reason you pulled me up here?"

"No, Shadowfax is a much stronger horse then the other two so having two riders won't slow him down."

"What and because I'm a woman I was the easiest to grab?" Sam said sarcasticly.

"No I also wanted to talk to you."

"ok so talk."

"I wanted to know where you are from."

"I came from a planet called Earth. It's about 10,000 light years from here. Why?"

"Yes that is what I thought. As for why. There is a prophesy that states that a woman would come from the stars to help the people and would blend the races of Men and elves again."

"What so your saying I'm going to have kids with some elf here. Look I'm just helping the fellowship so that I can find the Stargate and go home I'm not going to marry anyone and I'm defiantly not going to have children. Maybe in a couple of years but not anytime soon."

"Ah but no one can see the exact future. You could find love on Middle Earth before the end."

After that they rode on in silence till they can to the capital of Rohan.

Sam was sitting in a room waiting for Eowyn to come back.

They had gotten to the city and found a less then warm welcome when they found out that king Théoden was under some kind of spell that made him do whatever the caster wished.

Sam had watched in amazement as Gandalf had attack the King and the man had quickly grown younger somehow, she guessed it had been a side affect of the spell.

The king had then thrown his adviser, who had apparently been involved in the spell, out of the city. Before working out that his son was dead.

So now Sam was waiting for Eowyn to bring her a dress to wear to the funeral of the King's son, Theodred. One thing she had noticed while she was here was that son and fathers always seemed to have names that rhymed, Aragorn and Arathorn, Theoden and Theodred, it was rather confusing who was who but at lest she could always tell who was related.

Eowyn can back with a long black dress for her to wear, which she quickly slipped into before allowing Eowyn to tie up the back of the dress.

"How is it that I woman came to be with this fellowship that you are involved with. In Rohan there are shield maidens but we only fight if attacked. You seem to fight as if you were a man."

"Where I come from Men and Women have the right to choose to fight. Some choose to some don't. But we try mainly to resolve things with words rather then violence so we are rarely called to fight." Sam explained.

Sam took a brush that Eowyn offered her and started to untangle her now chin length hair. Much to her annoyance it had grown out in the months that she spent in Lórien, but she didn't want to cut it as it helped her to blend in more as everyone, male or female seemed to have long hair here.

"We rarely have long eras of peace anymore, not with the wild men attacking and orcs plundering our lands. Many have died in these last few years and now with my brother and his men banished there are very few of us left in Edoras."

"Is your brother the man riding the plains of Rohan, Eomer I think his name was."

"Yes that is he. He was banished not 3 weeks ago by Wormtongue."

There was a short silence between them till one of Eowyn's friends called them to attend the funeral.

She had always hated funerals, I mean how doesn't but her hate of them had grown since the first time that they had had one for Daniel. She hadn't be to many before then well not for people she knew, she had been to ones for old air force Generals or mass funerals after wars, things like that but the one for Daniel had been the second one for someone she knew really well. Luckily Daniel hadn't been dead so the funeral wasn't needed but it had still scared her at how easily they had been tricked into thinking he was dead and how easily they could have lost him.

So now she was at yet another funeral of someone she didn't know and never would know. Without noticing she stood at attention throughout the whole service, listening to the words said about the prince Théodred and the song that Eowyn sang, though she couldn't understand the words.

As everyone started to leave she saluted the grave out of habit then followed Legolas back into town.

Not long after they got back Gandalf and Théoden can in holding a small child each. The young boy who Gandalf was carrying was unconscious and the little girl that Théoden was carrying looked exhorted. Eowyn took the girl and sat her down on a nearby bench. Gandalf lay the boy down and woke him up by muttering a few words. The boy sat down next to his sister and they were both given food and Eowyn wrapped a blanket around each of them.

"They had no warning. They were unarmed. Now the wild men are moving through the Westfold, burning as they go -- rick, cot and tree." Eowyn said as she stood.

"Where is Mama?" the little girl Freda asked, looking around the room.

Eowyn sat down again to comfort the child.

"This is but a taste of the terror that Saruman will unleash. All the more potent for he is driven mad by fear of Sauron. Ride out and meet him head on. Draw him away from your women and children. You must fight!" Gandalf said from the small chair next to Théoden's throne.

"You have two thousand good men riding north as we speak. Eomer is loyal to you. His men will return and fight for their King." Aragorn said.

"They will be three hundred leagues from here by now. Eomer cannot help us. I know what it is you want of me. But I will not bring further death to my people. I will not risk open war."

"Open war is upon you, whether you would risk it or not."

Théoden glared at Aragorn, "When last I looked, Théoden, not Aragorn, was King of Rohan."

Sam sat with Legolas and Gimli listen to the conversation while eating some of the meat that had been given to them, she rolled her eyes at Gimli when he belched and wiped his arm across his beard.

"Then what is the king's decision?" Gandalf asked, ignoring Gimli's disgusting behaviour.

Not long after Sam found herself helping the villagers pack to go to Helm's deep. She didn't know anything about the place but it seemed that the rest of the fellowship didn't agree with decision. But they were following anyway.

Gandalf had gone off with his horse to find the riders that they had talked to a few days ago and they were meant to look for Gandalf in the east at first light on the 5th day. Aragorn was right about Gandalf speaking in riddles, he was very annoying at times.

Review responses.

Liana – I'll put something about the SGC in the next chapter.

Lady Jane – Well thanks for that insightful little speech. Sorry but I don't like Boromir that much and you have to admit that the only women you see in LOTR are of high birth and even then they are treated like they can't do anything.

Anyway what is wrong with Legolas/Sam couplings they would make such a great couple, I don't think Legolas would go for a sissy little so and so who couldn't defend themselves if there lives depended on it so I think they would be perfect together. But they is my opinion.

Also the language thing well the story wouldn't be very good if Sam couldn't talk to anyone and think of all the different planets SG-1 go to, these people were taken from Earth thousands of years ago how could they know English half of them were taking from Egypt too so they wouldn't have spoken English anyway.

The thing about trusting her, if Galadriel trusted her the other would too.

Anyway thanks for the review anyway I love long reviews even if they are just complaints.

BTW I'm from Perth. But Perth is way better then Sydney, Sydney is so crowded and busy. Perth is just perfect. It is also the 3rd best place to live in the world so beat that.

Anyway thanks.

hpsauce87 – I think the last chapter would have answered that question if not tell me and I'll explain.

kurt -Thanks

karatebando – thanks for that info.

Noa – will do as much as possible.