Sam's Thoughts

Elvish translations

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"He must really love you." Sam told him.

"He says that I remind him of my mother."

"Then she must have been very beautiful." She said cuddling into his chest.

"Just as you are." He replied.

Over the next few weeks Sam meet with Lohtë to learn how to be a princess. They became close friends as her future sister-in-law showed her how to curtsy, which fork to use for each meal, how to acted in court and helped her to start responding to her new name.

The female elf was forever complaining that she walked like a solider.  Which she was, but still the elf complained.

"What are you trudging through mud. Glide, don't stomp… You don't need to lift you feet that high… look watch me." The princess 'glided' across the room and back, then motioned to Sam to follow her example.

"No no no. Try again. You're not leaving this room till you get it right.

It was the same every night. It was annoying but it made sure that she learnt something new everyday.

When she wasn't with Lohtë, she was having her dress fitted and even then the woman would come along and ask her things to see if she remembered what she had been taught.

Legolas spent his time organizing the wedding with the King, where it would be, what they would wear. They had managed to track down Gandalf to preform the ceremony and messengers had been sent to invite the rest of the fellowship as well as Arwen and Eowyn.

Gimli had decided to go to the Misty Mountain to visit his family while the wedding was being plan and had left a few days after the wedding was announced.

6 weeks after the wedding was announced, everyone was gathered in the Eryn Lasgalen palace courtyard. The fellowship was there as well as the other friends that Sam had made in the pass year. Even Galadriel had chosen to come to the wedding, claiming that she wanted to come to Mirkwood one last time before she sailed to the undying lands. Also the whole of Mirkwood had tried to fit into the hall and those who couldn't fit in the streets.

Eowyn, Arwen and Lohtë were all helping Sam get ready in her room.

Her dress was white with a tight corset, as was the fashion, and went out at the hips. It had a simple decoration of gold leave embroidered at the sleeves and neck. Her hair had grown in the last year and was now at her shoulders, so Arwen had plaited it in a simple elven style, white flowers had also been weaved into her hair as it was plaited

"Were you this nervous when you married Aragorn?" she asked the Queen of Gondor.

"Yes. But its normal for all women so don't worry you'll be fine."

"Of course I'll be fine." She told herself.

Lets hope that I don't trip over my own feet.

All too soon for Sam she was walking towards Legolas. Gandalf was standing at the front of the courtyard watching her along with every other person in Mirkwood. Gimli was standing near Legolas as the prince had insisted despite his fathers protests. She was relived to find, that when she took his hand all her nervous seemed to disappear and she was fine for the rest of the ceremony. It was almost the same as an Earth wedding with some changes here and there. Also as she was now a Princess, Thranduil had to place a small crown on her head that matched her husband's and she was presented to the people with her new name.

Princess Mélawen Greenleaf of Mirkwood.

It went for just over an hour then they all gathered for a reception afterwards, where she was introduced to everyone one by one. It was two hours later that she managed to get away from the crowd and sit for a moment before she was called to open the dances with Legolas then to dance with the King as was custom. She was passed around the dance floor till she came back to Legolas and she was finally allowed to sit down again.

While she was by herself she took the time to think about everything that had changed in the past year. Her kidnapping; meeting the Fellowship and Legolas; Galadriel; chasing after Merry and Pippin; Helms Deep; the dead king; the black gate and Aragorn's coronation. If someone had told her 18 months ago that this would all happen to her she would have recommended that they go and see Dr Mackenzie.

She also thought about SG-1 and her Father. How would they be coping with her disappearance? Were they still looking for her? Or had they given up?

"I told you this would happen." She jumped in her seat and turned to look at Gandalf who was sitting next to her.

"Huh?!"

"I told you there was a prophesy that stated that a woman would come from the stars to help the people and would blend the races of Men and Elves again." The white wizard said.

"Yes you did didn't you." She said, "Your really annoying, did you know that?"

"Am I? Only annoying. I'm not working hard enough then." The Wizard said smiling at her.

Pippin chose that moment to come over and pull Sam back onto the dance floor, leaving Gandalf to himself.

The dancing went well into the next morning before everything started to calm down and she was able to go to bed with her new husband and to complete the prophecy.

A year later Sam gave birth to her first child, a girl, must to Sam and Legolas's delight and Thranduil's dismay.

When Thranduil had refused the first name Sam suggested, they named her Lúthien, instead which meant the same thing except in elvish instead of English.

When Lúthien was one the ring bearers sailed to the undying lands along with Bilbo Baggins, Galadriel had insisted that Sam bring the little girl to Lóthlórien for a month before they sail so that she could spend some time with the little girl before leaving and Sam had then ridden to the Grey havens to see them off and say goodbye to Frodo.

When Lúthien was 4 Sam conceived again and the Fellowship was invited to a celebration for 5 years of peace since the destruction of the ring.