Chapter 4

The next day the fellowship left. There was a large gathering people from the different races.

Frodo lead them out of the gate and down the path till they were out of sight of Rivendell when Gandalf took lead. Legolas walked with Sam and the pony they had brought with them, Bill. Sam asked him all different questions about Mirkwood and the elves there.

Legolas noticed that Aragorn and Gandalf were talking at the front of the group and would look back at them occasionally. She knew that both of them were suspicious of her. She could only hope that she would have a chance to prove herself before they worked it out completely and decided to send her home.

They walked for a few days stopping at night for rest and food, before they came to a small rocky site in the middle of a plain near the Gap of Rohan. They decided to stop for awhile even though it was still daylight.

Sam started to cook lunch while Aragorn and Boromir tried to teach Merry and Pipping to use a sword properly. Gandalf and Gimli sat on a rock smoking their pipes. Legolas went as far away from the smoke as was possible without leaving the group and watched to surrounding area. Till he saw a strange cloud in the distance.

But it was Sam who voiced the disturbance.

"What is that?"

"Nothing, it's just a wisp of cloud." Gimli dismissed it.

"Well, it's moving fast. Against the wind." Boromir said doubtfully

That was when she recognised them, she had seen them in a book in the palace library in Mirkwood, "Crebain from Dunland!!"

"Hide!!" Aragorn shouted.

Sam watered out the fire and ran for cover.

"Come on! Come on! Take cover!" Aragorn urged them.

They all found cover just as the birds flew over them. Legolas looked up watching them disappear from their view. They waited a few minutes to make sure there were no stragglers before coming out of their hiding places.

"Spies of Saruman. The passage south is being watched. We must take the pass of Caradhras." Gandalf said before quickly gathering up their things and walking quickly towards the mountain.

After only a 100 metres of going up the snow covered mountain Legolas know that it was going to be very hard for the others who couldn't walk on top of the snow and it could even be the death of the 4 Hobbits.

Not long after Frodo fall over and started to role down the slope.

"Frodo!" Aragorn shouted, running to catch the poor Hobbit. When Frodo was righted again he started to panic and search for the ring. They all looked around to try and find it and so Boromir did. Legolas drew an arrow and held it loosely on his bow ready to shoot the man if need be.

"Boromir." Aragorn spoke.

"It is a strange fate. For which should suffer so much fear and doubt. Over so small a thing. Such a little thing." Boromir said thoughtfully.

"Boromir! Give the ring to Frodo." Aragorn ordered gently but firmly.

Boromir stopped staring at the ring and handed it back to Frodo. "As you wish." Legolas relaxed and quickly put the arrow away before Boromir could see it, she was sure that that wouldn't go well with the human.

"I care not." Boromir assured them. Before continuing up the hill. But Legolas could tell that he did care and the ring was calling him.

Well so much for that idea. Saruman had tried to bring the mountain down on top of them so they had decided to go through the mines of Moria instead. Not something that Legolas was looking forward to. Sure the Mirkwood palace was stone but there were so many windows and vines crawling up the walls that you would hardly notice. But she wouldn't complain, she didn't want to give Gandalf and Aragorn a reason to send her home.

So now she was sitting outside the doors of Moria with the dwarf prattling on about how much more hospitable the dwarves were compared to the elves. But she wasn't listening, she was watching the water. There was something she didn't like about it. Aragorn looked at her and seemed to see that she was uneasy about it so stopped Merry and Pippin from throwing stones across it.

"Mellon" Gandalf said.

Friend? Why on Middle Earth would he say Friend??? She thought. But she quickly found out why. The doors opened letting them all enter the mines.

"Soon Master Elf, you will enjoy the fabled hospitality of the dwarves! Roaring fires, malt beer, red meat of the bone! This, my friend, is the home of my cousin Balin. And they call it a mine. A MINE!" Gimli said next to him as they entered.

"This is no mine. It's a tomb." Boromir said. All around them were the rotting corpses of long dead dwarves.

"No! Nooo! NOOOO!"

Legolas ran lightly over to one of the bodies, pulled out the arrow that had corsed the poor fellows death and studied the head. "Goblins!" she stated in disgust. Throwing it to the ground before pulling her own arrow.

"We make for the Gap of Rohan. We should never have come here! Now get out of here! Get out!!" Boromir shouted

Sam: "Strider!!!" They all turned to see Frodo being dragged away by a large tentacle.

The Hobbits were hitting the creature with their swords but they weren't strong enough to do much damage.

"Aragorn!!" Merry this time, sounding really scared and desperate.

Frodo was screaming at the top of his lungs. Being thrown around in the air by the tentacle.

They all ran over to try and free the poor Hobbit. But they weren't having any luck. So Legolas to a chance and jumped into the head of the creature and shot it in the eye. Being overly adventurous as a child she had tried to ride standing on horses before but horses were calmer then this and weren't trying to kill you. But the creature finally dropped Frodo who was caught by Boromir.

"Into the mines!!!" Gandalf yelled. Running off followed by the fellowship except Legolas who was trying to get off of the watcher, without getting completely soaked.

"Legolas!" Boromir called back to her.

Well at lest someone realises that I'm not there, she thought. But didn't comment when she finally managed to get of the creature and follow the fellowship. As they ran they heard the door collapse behind them and all went black. They all stopped and turned. Indeed the door was gone.

Gandalf placed a small rock in the top of his staff and it lit up. "We now have but one choice. We must face the long dark of Moria. Be on your guard. There are older and fouler things than orcs in the deep places of the world." He warned them. "It's a four day journey to the other side. Let us hope that our presence may go unnoticed."

And so they set off through the mines of moria. As they walked Legolas noted the difference in the attitudes of the different members of the fellowship. Aragorn looked grave as he whispered to Gandalf at the front of the group. Gandalf kept looking back at her as if he was trying to work something out. Boromir was trying to calm down the Hobbits who all looked very shocked at Frodo's near death experience. Gimli was also very solum in front of him the discovery of Moria's fall had hit him hard and it was showing.

"That was a very stupid thing to do Legolas." She jumped at the sudden voice next to her. She look over to see Gandalf walking next to her. "I apologise Mithrandir but something had to be done to save Frodo." Legolas defended. "Yes and that is why what you did was very brave. Well done, M'lady." Legolas stopped shocked. She watched as Gandalf continued to move after the rest of the fellowship. He knew. He knew her true identity. She knew that she would be sent home now. She would just have to hope that her Ada wasn't told.

Translations

Mithrandir – Elvish name for Gandalf.

Ada - Father