I know I haven't updated this in a couple years and anyone who originally read this story

has given up on it. Oh well. I'm going to skip to Lothlórien.

"Daro!" a voice commanded. Pippin looked up fearfully. Pippin camouflaged perfectly with the bush as he was told to hold still. He waited impatiently as Legolas spoke with the mysterious voice.

Pippin whined, "Can you hurry up? I'm getting hungry." Gimli chuckled to himself. Finally, after much conversing, it was agreed that Frodo and Sam were to join the strange people with Legolas. The remaining members of the fellowship sat down on the carpet of moss and Boromir spoke up,

"Let's have a story. Shall we?" No one responded. "Fine, I'll tell one," said Boromir. "About the legendary ummm…Bandalf."

"What's a Bandalf?" piped Merry.

"You'll figure out in due time," spoke Boromir gruffly.

"But what is it? I must admit, I've never heard of one either." said Aragorn.

"What? You haven't heard of Gandalf's bird?" Borimir asked astonished. Aragorn smiled.

"Oh get on with the story!" Gimili exclaimed, annoyed.

"Well, a long time ago, when Gandalf was not so aged, he had a friend." Boromir began. "He saved the egg of a giant falcon. The falcon had been hunted by orcs. Because, the mother had been slain, he took the egg and raised the baby falcon. The falcon grew to an enormous size until he was large enough to hold a horse. Gandalf began to ride it everywhere. He got into his first fight because the orcs thought he was showing off. Together, the two killed all eight of the orcs. The orcs sent reinforcements and the falcon was killed."

"What? That's the end? What a dumb story." announced Pippin.

"Oh, Pippin. Didn't see you there young fellow." said Gimli. Pippin muttered incoherently

"Oh, I was just kidding Pippin. He didn't die there." Boromir smiled as Aragorn rolled his eyes. Boromir started once more, "Anyway, they had to flee from that fight for there were much too many orcs to defeat. They flew over Gondor to Rohan. There, they took refuge with the Erolingas." Boromir spotted Legolas climbing down the tree. "They fought many battles unitl the bird died. The end."

"Even worse," Pippin announced.

"Tell them why it was called Bandalf." Aragorn said grinning.

"Why it was Gandalf's Bird of course. So Bird plus Gandalf equals Bandalf." Legolas, who had reached the bottom, looked confused. He was about to say something but then he saw Aragorn struggling not to laugh.

"So, why is his name Legolas?" asked Aragorn.

"Well Legolas is kind of like Leg-o-loss. So he must have lost his leg but then it grew back so he said 'oh'. Hence the name Leg o loss." Gimili started laughing. By this time, he had caught on. Legolas smiled.

"Then you are called Boromir because you borrowed a mirror. You were little so you called it a meer. Borrow plus meer equals Boromir." Two men a dwarf and an elf laughed while two hobbits looked rather confused. Suddenly Merry grinned.

"My name is Merry because my mother liked to make berries. Making berries makes me "Merry." They all laughed except Pippin.

"I never knew that" he said. "and stop laughing at my friend. Your names are stranger."

A very happy Merry and grumpy Pippin climbed the tree to find an agitated Frodo. He smiled when he saw Pippin was grumpy.

"How are you frog boy?" Frodo asked. Pippin glared at him. Three elves nearby looked slightly confused at the exchange.

"Why are you green?" One of them asked.

"He's always been that way." Frodo said quickly. Pippin didn't say anything when Frodo glared at him. The three hobbits curled up and went to sleep.