Sam's Thoughts

Elvish translations

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"Slattern. Look mate you may be a king but that doesn't mean that you have the right to go around judging people before you know them."

"While you are in my kingdom I will call you want I like."

"Well would it make your life easier if I left then? No don't answer that I'm going anyway, I don't have to put up with this. When he returns please tell Legolas that I have returned to Gondor."

A/N this is a request from Majcarter in one of her/his reviews.

"I have to admit although you are an annoying and rather crazy elf. Your people do seem to love you, for some odd reason, but then they are elves too. Must take one to love one." Gimli stated as they rode into the palace stable.

"Ah but what about Sam. She claims to love me yet she isn't an elf?"

"Yes but there is a black sheep in every family, so…"

"Arod amba (UP)" Legolas said, causing the horse to rear, depositing the dwarf in a pile of hay.

Legolas continued forward till he came to Arod's stall, which was next to where Sam's horse slept.

He looked into the stall to find the mare missing. Wondering if it was in a field somewhere he called to one of the stable boys.

"Nay the human female that was staying here, Samantha, I think her name was. She left earlier this afternoon. Was in a right state she was. The servants are saying that she had a fight with the king and he sent her packing."

"I'll kill ya, bloody elf…" Gimli rage, coming up behind Legolas.

"Sam's gone. You stay here I'm going to see if my Father knows where." Before Gimli could reply Legolas ran off to find his father.

As always the king was found doing paperwork in his study.

"Father have you seen Sam?"

"She left earlier." The king said not looking up from his work.

"Why?"

"How should I know what a human is thinking?"

"Because people are saying that you sent her away." Legolas informed him.

"She left on her own accord."

"But you pushed her to leave." The prince insisted.

"She has returned to Gondor where she belongs; now leave me I have work to do." The king said, but Legolas was already gone.

Sam rode through the forest in the direction that she had arrived from. She knew that she should have stayed in the city till Legolas came back but she was so annoyed with the king that she didn't care. She would go to Gondor where her friends were and maybe start to look for the Stargate.

She had decided not to return home, but she also knew that her Father would have been devastated when he found out that she was missing. She wanted to assure her Father and friends that she was alive, well and happy where she was. But she knew that it could be years before she found the gate. Even if she had people helping her. Aragorn had already offered to start looking for it for her but she wouldn't ask for or accept help from Aragorn till the city was rebuilt and running smoothly again.

She slowed her horse to give it a break now that she was far enough away from the king to suit her comforts. As she rode she felt eyes on her and she looked around to see who it was. She reached for her bow, only to find that she had left it in her room at the palace.

Oh this is just perfect.

She kicked her horse back into a trot and drew Venya Ohtar. Just as she went to spur the horse on she was forced to halt as a group of large black shapes fell out of the trees.

Gimli was still holding Arod's reigns when Legolas ran back into the stable.

"She is returning to Gondor. We must go after her. I still don't believe what the people are saying about these woods and I won't believe it till I see it for myself."

"Do you think that the spiders might attack her?" Gimli asked.

"Yes and Sam doesn't know about them, she could be killed."

"Then let's get out of here." Gimli said as Legolas boosted him into the saddle before jumping on himself in front of the dwarf.

They then galloped off into the woods in the direction of Gondor.

Sam watched as the large animals dropped out of the trees around her.

There was very little light in this part of the woods, but from what she could she of them, she knew that they weren't trying to help her.

To make things worst her horse was starting to panic.

"Shh, its okay girl, calm down." She whispered to the horse, but it didn't want to calm down. The horse finally freaked as the animals got closer and bucked causing Sam to fall off.

She tried to get got to her feet but her dress caught around her legs making her fall over again. She watched from the ground as the creatures attacked to poor horse and killed it. She used the time to untangle herself and retrieved her sword that had fallen not far from where she had landed.

The some of the creatures turned their attention back to her and continued their advance on her, while the others feasted on what use to be horse. As they got closer she could see that they were giant spiders, each staring at her with eight huge eyes. They approached her from all directions, but not wanting to be cornered she looked for a gap in the circle that she could run through. Finding one she ran towards the spider closest to the gap and slashed her sword across its eyes. The other spiders attacked their injured companion giving Sam time to find easier fighting grounds.

Most of the spiders choose to eat the fallen spider, while the ones that had attacked her horse were finishing and turning back to attack her.

Ok so they attack their own if they are injured. So I just need to kill a couple in quick succession and the others will be distracted. But then that's the hard part.

The spiders continued to close in around her, trying to get around her again. She kept backing up so they were unable to get behind her.

After a few minutes of this one of the spiders got bored and charged at her. She cut it down with ease, but then the rest of them charged her, attacking as one and making it impossible for her to watch them all at once, giving the spiders the chance to get through her defences.

One of the spiders managed to hit her in the face with one of its legs, sending her flying into a tree, and leaving a large scratch from her left eye across her cheek to her chin. The spiders took advantage of dazed mind after hitting the tree and came at her again. She looked around for her sword which had been yanked from her grasp; it was well out of reach behind the spiders. She now only had two small knives to defend herself and she was too far away to be heard by anyone. Except that elves had stronger hearing then humans so she thought that maybe she would be heard.

Even if it doesn't I may scare the spiders. Though it isn't likely.

She finally made up her mind she took a deep breath and screamed at the top of her lungs. She then threw one of her daggers at the nearest spider and tried to run towards her sword. But they weren't going to fall for the same trick twice.

One of the spiders pounced on her from behind. As she tried to crawl away it revealed a large sting on its tail end. The last thing she remembered was a severe pain before everything went black.