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"Common Tongue"
"Elven Tongue"
"When Nividia speaks to someone in their mind alone."
Chapter 8:
The Decision
"Sooner or later you will manage to dig your fingers in the table," a voice said to her left on Elven tongue. Nividia let go and looked at the Elven Prince. She sighed it was him and not someone else. Legolas came to her side and looked at where she had just looked, where he saw Elrohir and Elladan. "Why are you looking at Lord Elrond´s twin sons?"
"Well, they were going to tell me something important… And of course Erestor interrupt before they even could say anything, and now they are not planning on telling me anything," Nividia explained.
"Yet…" Legolas said, knowing she will not give up. Nividia laughed.
"You are far from home, Greenleaf," Nividia said and looked at him.
"I was sent for my father to discuss the decision about Gollum with Lord Elrond." Nividia furrowed her eyebrows, wanting to know more. "Aragorn and I managed to take him few months ago, Gandalf wanted to question him and now I am afraid, he escaped." Nividia nodded.
"And what is it that Gandalf wanted to know?" Nividia asked.
"I do not know. Lord Elrond told me to bring you to the Council now, he wanted you to be there." Legolas said and she nodded. She changed to her tiger form and followed him. "I am quite surprised you came with, Nividia," Legolas said inside his mind to Nividia.
"Don´t you dare say it, Greenleaf!" Nividia said to him, she knew what he wanted to say. "Do not dare say that word!"
"Only if you stop calling me Greenleaf and just Legolas," he said and they approached the meeting. The Council was outside where it was set up chairs in a half circle with three chairs at the end and a stone table in the middle.
"Not ever going to happen!" Legolas only laughed. A shout came out from the crowd of Elves, Men and Dwarves. Nividia looked that way and it came from the Dwarves.
"Nividia!" Nividia smiled when she saw that stubborn Dwarf, Glòin, who she became friend with on their trip to Erebror so many years ago. "How is my favourite Elf?" He asked and walked fast over to her. "I haven´t seen you in years." Nividia laughed.
"Favourite Elf? You all Dwarves say that now?" She asked so they all could hear who could be listening to them. "Or you saying it just because you´re in Rivendell and all other Elves will hear it?" She said only to him which made him chuckle. Lord Elrond called for the Council to begin.
"We talk about it later," Glòin whispered. Lord Elrond asked them all to sit down, Nividia sat down next to Aragorn on the ground as she was staying in her tiger form. She means that she will get more respect of someone if she was in tiger than in Elf as a woman. Lord Elrond introduced mostly of where everyone came from and why they all were summoned here, to talk about the dark power that increases and so everyone will get their questions answered. Someone already asked questions, but Lord Elrond told them to wait until after what the Lord of Imladris had to say.
He began with how the One Ring was made by the Dark Lord Sauron. How he tricked the Men and almost the Dwarves, how the Elves discovered his traitor. The growing power and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, from the last detail. When Lord Elrond were going to talk about Elendil´s death, Nividia paid extra attention to him and warning him not to tell the completely truth. Lord Elrond did not tell the details of whom and how Elendil died, but told how Isildur cut the One Ring of Sauron´s finger and kept it for himself.
After the ages of they thought was in peace, Bilbo Baggins stepped forth and told them all how he found the Ring and it was kept hidden in the Shire for sixty long years. Legolas of Greenwood told them they had captured Gollum; let Gandalf question him and how he escaped. What Lord Elrond thought was shame, now that he might tell the enemy who has the Ring.
"That I am afraid, is a bit to late of thinking, Lord Elrond," Nividia stepped in and said to all who was in the Council. She felt the worried looks of Men on her that she could talk in their heads. "The Nazgûls found out where the Ring was and it is only one who could tell them, because it was only him who is not trustworthy who knew."
Gandalf said, after the discussion with Gollum, that he had been under torture by the enemy himself and happened to tell Sauron two words.
Lord Elrond asked Frodo Baggins to step forward and place the One Ring on the stone table as he did, so everyone can see the Ring and what danger that lies upon them.
Boromir stood up and told them all about the dream that his brother and he have had, for almost every word he said he stepped closer to the Ring and as he tried to reach it dark clouds covered Imladris and the dark tongue was heard. Nividia closer her eyes, not wanting to hear more, but she helped Gandalf get rid of the darkness with the Elven words singing in the air.
The Council broke up, needed of break of many hours sitting and listening on everyone. It had gone past dinnertime and they will reunite not until tomorrow.
"Gandalf, my friend, I beg you to not speak of that tongue near me again." Nividia begged to Gandalf as they all were leaving the Council place. Gandalf looked barely at her with a question mark and then looked at where he was going. "It is too heavy for me to hear and I am afraid of it."
"My apologize, Nividia, but I had to and you did not do much at first either." Gandalf said to her. "But I can promise you that, I will not do it again." Gandalf gave her a warm smile making her mood better.
"Nividia," Lord Elrond called for her. "Please, join us," he said and showed her to a small room with Gandalf. She turned to Elf form as soon as she got in.
"Is it something wrong?" She asked and looked at Lord Elrond who closed the door after them.
"Sadly we did not came to the part I wanted to discuss the future of the Ring," Lord Elrond said. Nividia looked at Gandalf and he knew what was coming up now. "It cannot stay in Imladris for much longer."
"I´ll take it far from Imladris, but someone needs to carry it," Nividia offered.
"That is something I hoped you will do," Lord Elrond continued. "The Ring needs to be destroyed." Lord Elrond leaned on the table where it was placed a map of Middle-earth. "You know the land most."
"I hardly thought of where I was going, Lord Elrond, so I don´t know the land. I only went where I could find Orcs to kill them even if it was under the mountains," Nividia said.
"He means Mordor, Nividia," Gandalf said. He looked both sad and worried as he walked over to the window to look out of it as if he sees something out there. Nividia could not believe it.
"You two want me to go to Mordor? With the Ring? That is not a very good idea," Nividia said and looked at them both. "The Ring and I won´t actually… Well let´s put it this way; get along with each other. I feel its presents and so do the Ring, I know it. So me being close to it, and specially in Elf form when I am the weakest is a horrible-" She could not finish her sentence before Lord Elrond stepped in.
"You are the strongest creature here and being in your tiger form-"
"Do not interrupt me! And do not say I am the strongest creature in the world, it is like it comes from Melkor´s own mouth," Nividia said. It went silence for few minutes while Lord Elrond studied the map. "But… If someone is strong enough to resist the Ring´s evil, I will help, all the way to Mount Doom." Lord Elrond was pleased with that. "And who do you have in mind to go on such suicide quest?" She asked.
"Frodo has come so far, still bearing the Ring, the hobbit has shown extraordinary resilience to its evil," the Lord of Imladris said. Nividia saw it on Gandalf he did not like it. "And as far as I know, he is the strongest who can carry it."
"Well, only if he wants to and he wants to I will join with him. Protect him as much as I can from any danger," Nividia said. Lord Elrond nodded. "I hope there will be others who will come with us to, not many but some right? I cannot do this alone, I cannot be alone with Frodo and the Ring."
"Don´t worry, we´ll figure it out tomorrow," Lord Elrond said. Nividia looked at Gandalf, he was awfully quiet. "Then it is set."
Sorry for this long chapter, but I just had to have everything with