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Echoing Light	By : TMFUSYWER Category: Lord of the Rings Movies > Hobbit, The Views: 3131 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own J.R.R. Tolkien's or Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, nor the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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Hundred years later
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"What are we even doing here laddie?"
"There are dungeons deep under this fortress, my friend." Legolas and Gimli were walking through a dark hallway with a torch.
"So what? There is obviously not a soul here." Gimli muttered.
"There might be... Maybe some elves were able to survive here."
"Hmpf... I trust you, let's go."
Legolas and Gimli checked each of the dirty rooms deep underneath the surface, everything reeked of death. They couldn't hear a thing but they still had weapons drawn. Legolas had his sword in one hand while holding a torch in the other and Gimli was his axe.
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"Laddie, I'm sorry but there isn't anyone here..." Gimli said with a sad tone after spending an hour and a half in the dungeons.
"I won't leave until I've checked every room, my friend. I need to be absolutely sure."
Gimli wasn't planning on arguing with Legolas, he just wanted him to prepare for the fact that there might not be anyone alive.
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Legolas briefly glanced into the very deepest and last room in the entirety of Gundabad as he was about to announce to Gimli they were leaving. But thanks to the fire emitting from the torch, the corner of his eye caught something green lying in that very room, on the floor.
"Gimli! Come here!" He shouted.
Gimli ran over immediately, "What is it, laddie?"
"Look!" Legolas entered the room and kicked away the black stones and rock. The room was full of bones, dust, and even barely visible, dried-up blood. Thanks to the conditions so deep in the dungeon the blood was able to persevere for so long. Disregarding the bones that were scattered across the room, there seemed to be a full skeleton lying near the dirty cloth.
Gimli looked from behind Legolas as he picked up a dusty piece of cloth that barely had any color.
"Some rags, so what?" Gimli questioned.
Legolas started intensively brushing the settled dust off the cloth. As more and more of the dirt was off, the cloth was gaining a color. Green. Legolas realized that it was a torn-apart, elven tunic. His heart was pounding.
"This can't be..." Legolas mumbled to himself, Gimli looked at him confused.
The golden-haired elf began frantically cleaning the tunic even more and Gimli was increasingly puzzled.
Legolas looked at the skeleton and began inspecting it.
"Is that one of your kin?" Gimli asked, worried.
"This... this was an elf... A woman." Anxiety could be heard in his voice.
"I'm sorry, laddie... There's nothing you could've done, this one has been dead for a very long time... We shall honor her and give her a proper burial!" Gimli was sad for Legolas and placed his hand on Legolas' shoulder.
Legolas stood up and looked over at one of the walls. His heart sank, and a tear rolled down his cheek as he saw a faint engraving on the wall.
"To Legolas: I don't blame and I'm sorry"
"I-... I.. You're- you're wrong... My friend..." Legolas stuttered.
"What do you mean?" Gimli said, distraught.
Legolas walked over to the wall and kneeled next to it, running his fingers across the letters.
"I could've... I could've saved her... Tauriel... Oh no... I never knew..." He cried.
"Don't blame yourself... That's not what she would've wanted." Gimli wasn't sure what was going on. He didn't know anyone named Tauriel and he didn't know what she meant to Legolas but he was telling him what he needed to hear.
"I... I failed her, Gimli, my friend... I should've slayed that vile beast, Bolg. It must've been him!"
Gimli had heard the name Bolg, and his heart skipped a beat when he thought about this Tauriel and her having to endure Bolg's torture. He didn't know him personally but from terrifying stories.
"Let's get her out of this damned, foul place, Legolas. We will bury, and mourn your kin. Don't get swallowed by guilt." Gimli patted his back.
Legolas looked at the words up close one last time before getting up.
They gathered the bones, and the tunic and left.
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"Farewell, Tauriel of the Woodland Realm... May you finally find peace in the Halls of Mandos."
Gimli waited until Legolas was done with the elven traditions of the burial, and then mourned with him. He listened to his tales about Tauriel, and only then found out what she meant to him.
The next day they embarked together on more adventures throughout middle-earth, but Legolas would be haunted by this forever.
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