AUTHORS NOTE: This chapter is extremely short, and I apologize for this…this madman has a method for her mayhem, so trust me!!
PLUS I noticed that I did not put a DISLAIMER, so…unfortunately I will have to say that Legolas, Gimli, Aragorn and any one else that you may recognize, belong to J.R.R. Tolkien, and not I…sigh everyone else is MINEEEE!!! preciousssss
P.S Tenithar is my character, he is not recored in LOTR, and so he is only real in my story….phoeey.
Now on with the story!
Chapter four
The trees stirred, whispering of a new presence and soon two horses appeared behind the mountain's side.
An Elf, a man, and a dwarf sat upon these tall and proud creatures, yet there faces were somber, and worried.
"Aragorn, Mirkwood is six days away.
Everyday we ride closer, and yet my heart is
full of dread. It is as if the very ground we walk upon is soiled with evil. "
" I know Legolas, for we all feel this. Yet this evil is not new, this evil has been here a long time, stirring beneath the ground. "Aragorn Replied somberly.
"This Land is evil." Gimli said gruffly.
" No Gimli, this land once was evil, but Tenithar is no longer." Aragorn said wearily.
"Teninthar was a man who became possessed by the witch king. He killed all that the witch king demanded, and many hundreds died. After Sauron's fall, Tenithar no longer had a master, so he committed suicide, feeling abandoned and weak." Aragorn told Gimli drearily.
" Though Tenithar is no longer, his essence still lives in this land, and many orcs came here feeling protected from other species, by living in caves and burrows after the war of the ring." Legolas said, while looking around picturing Tenithar standing along the side of the worn dirt path.
" He killed himself here?" Gimli asked, horrified.
" Yes Gimli. Tenithar was in alliegiance with Sauron and Melkor. He was very feared, yet without his masters, he was nothing…and so he killed himself in hopes of beings slave under them in the afterlife." Legolas told Gimli somberly.
Gimli sat quietly behind Legolas, atop Arods back. Pondering about all that Legolas and Aragorn had told him. 'Why would anyone want to kill themselves, just so that they could become a slave AGAIN' Gimli wondered incredulously. Deep in thought, Gimli never noticed that there were no animals chattering and leaping from tree limb to tree limb in the dreadful place they traveled through.
As they progressed down the path closer to Mirkwood, Everything suddenly became quiet.…
TBC