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A.N.: This is my first fic and English is not my native language, so please be kind... (giving everybody puppy- eyes)
One More Chance
.1.
Sam sat next to the unmoving form of his friend and master. Seeing Frodo like this, seeing even the "fool's hope" taken away from their quest as the hobbit next to him stayed unmoving, made him curse Shilob, and most of all – Gollum. After all, had he not been the one to cross them, as Sam knew the creature would? So overwhelmed was he, by his anger and his grief, that he did not hear the footsteps coming his way. The heavy footsteps of a unit of orcs...
The remaining soldiers of the west stood in front of the black gate of Mordor.
The leaders and representatives of the free people of Middle- Earth, stared wide eyed at the items before them, their faces blanched. For there, to their feet, laid the end of all their hopes in the forms of a mithril shirt, two small swords – one of which was shining a bright blue – and worse than all: a chain. A chain that bore a suspicious resemblance to Frodo's. The one the ring was attached to.
Only, the ring was not there...
"If you worry for your friends," said the mouth of Sauron "don't be. They are perfectly fine and enjoying our hospitality." And with that, he turned and entered Mordor – just as a huge army of various foul creatures came out to surround them.
"It's a trap!" said (well, yelled) Aragorn, telling the rest of the fellowship, the king of Rohan and the prince of Dol- Amroth to retreat towards the rest of the army on the hill.
"Does it really matter what we do now?" Gimli's question surprised them all. True, the dwarf wasn't the most optimistic person they knew, but he was not normally so pessimistic either. "Face it my friends, we lost. And now, all we have left to do is to die, and not be here to serve the dark lord!"
"Nonsense!" scolded Gandalf "I fear your head has started filling up with stone instead of wits, if you truly think so! Where is your courage and stubbornness, dwarf?"
No one noticed his glance towards Legolas as he continued: "There is always hope – and death is not a part of it."