Chapter 6
I do not own LotR in any way.
A/N-You don't like my writing style, stop reading then.
The next morning, Lirilla was bustling around getting ready to leave.
Elrond entered her room. "I wish you wouldn't go", he said.
"And I wish you would let me make my own decisions", she snapped, "I'm an adult".
"Age wise yes", he said.
She turned to glare at him. "I'm going whether you like it or not", she told him. She grabbed her bow and quiver. She grabbed her healing pack and left. She joined Legolas in the courtyard with Gimli. "Good morning Master Gimli", she said sweetly.
Gimli just grumbled.
She turned to Legolas.
He was wearing a green and brown tunic.
She couldn't help but notice how it made his hair and eyes stand out. "Hey", she said.
"Hey", he replied. Aragorn walked up.
Lirilla immediately noticed Arwen's Evenstar necklace around his neck.
He glanced at her and gave her a 'don't say anything' look.
Slowly, everyone gathered in the courtyard to see the Fellowship off.
"The Ring-bearer is setting out on the Quest of Mount Doom", Elrond said, "On you who travel with him, no oath nor bond is laid to go further than you will. Farewell. Hold to your purpose. May the blessings of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you".
"The Fellowship awaits the Ring-bearer", Gandalf said.
Frodo turned around and began walking.
Lirilla turned back to look at Rivendell one last time.
Legolas slipped his hand in hers and gave it a light squeeze.
Lirilla smiled and turned around.
The journey had begun.
They stopped around lunch time.
Lirilla sat down on one of the rocks and pulled out some food.
"Is that Lembas?" Legolas asked.
Lirilla rolled her eyes at him and took a small bite.
Legolas stood and gazed out across the land.
"If anyone was to ask for my opinion, which I know they're not…I'd say we were taking the long way 'round", Gimli said.
Lirilla tuned the dwarf out.
Legolas suddenly jumped to another rock.
Lirilla stood up and followed him. "What is it?" she asked him softly.
"Crebain from Dunland!" Legolas exclaimed.
"Hide!" Aragorn yelled.
Legolas grabbed Lirilla and forced her behind one of the rocks. He lay next to her.
She opened her mouth to say something to him, but he placed his finger on her lips.
Their blue eyes stared into each other's.
When the Crebain flew away, Legolas helped Lirilla up.
While everyone else was distracted, Legolas turned to Lirilla and said to her in elvish, "I will always keep you safe, even if it means I lose my life".
Lirilla couldn't believe what she was hearing.
Legolas had just pledged his life to her.
As they trudged up the snow covered pass, Legolas made sure to walk behind Lirilla, to catch her if she fell.
"Isn't it amazing? Snow?" she asked him.
"Have you never seen snow?" Legolas asked.
"When I was an elfling, I spent most of my time in the castle", she told him, "What about in Mirkwood? Does it snow in Mirkwood?"
"Not very often", he said.
As everyone else was walking waist deep in snow, Legolas and Lirilla were able to walk upon the snow.
They walked to the front of the group.
"There is a fell voice on the air", Legolas said.
"It's Saruman!" Gandalf yelled.
Suddenly, the mountain started to fall apart.
"He's trying to bring down the mountain! Gandalf, we must turn back!" Aragorn yelled.
"No!" Gandalf shouted back. He started to chant in Sindarin.
Snow came piling onto the Fellowship.
Legolas emerged first and cleared away the snow to get to Lirilla.
"On second thought…I don't like snow", she said.
Legolas smiled and kissed her temple.
"We must get off the mountain!" Boromir yelled, "Make for the Gap of Rohan, and take the west road to my city!"
"The Gap of Rohan takes us to close to Isengard!" Aragorn argued.
"We cannot pass over a mountain. Let us go under it", Gimli suggested, "Let us go through the Mines of Moria".
"Let the Ring-bearer decide", Gandalf said.
Everyone looked at Frodo.
"We cannot stay here!" Boromir argued, "This will be the death of the Hobbits".
"Frodo?" Gandalf asked.
"We will go through the mines", he said.
"So be it", Gandalf said reluctantly.