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In Rohan	By : Sighs4l Category: Lord of the Rings Movies > Het - Male/Female Views: 2679 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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8. So It
Begins

After
he was prepared for battle, Gimli led the Countess through the Keep to the
Gate where the Elves, led by Haldir of Lothlorien,
stood in rows. Legolas was greeting Haldir. Haldir acknowledged their arrival with only a
glance and a nod. Haldir, Aragorn,
Legolas and Theoden spoke his whispers for a short time and then the
conference broke up and King Theoden gave his final orders for preparations of
the defense of Helm's Deep.

The
two hundred elves who had come to Helm's Deep had taken the place of the men
and boys formerly placed as reserves on the Deeping
Wall; they had been sent back into the Keep to defend the stronghold under
Theoden's command. Haldir had given command of the elves to Aragorn, who
now paced up and down the Wall; the elves would fight for men here on the Wall
under the direction of a man.
Legolas
stood on the Wall among the Elves who had come to Rohan's
fortress, but no elf stood next to him. The Countess was on one side of
him and Gimli stood on his other side.
The
Defenders of Helm’s Deep watched the approaching
Uruk force through the storm that had come along with the army from
Isengard. The rain could not help but dampen the spirits of the
defenders, the lightning showed them the great numbers of the advancing enemy
and the thunder reinforced the great noise of their approach.
The
Countess watched Aragorn pace up and down the Wall. "Show them no mercy," she heard
Aragorn shout, "for you shall receive none!"
At
a great cry, the Uruk army stopped before the wall. There was only
silence from the defenders, enough that they heard an Uruk give a roar now and
again.
"What's
happening out there?" Gimli asked, forgetting his usual dignity to jump up
to try to see the Uruks over the wall before him.
"Shall
I describe it to you?" Legolas asked. Smiling and turning to look
down at the dwarf, he said "or would you like me to find you a box?"
Gimli
looked up at him sharply, then laughed.
Looking
out over the army of Uruks, the Countess could have no great hope that they
would be surviving this night. But on hearing Gimli's laughter at
Legolas's joke, she smiled and her heart filled with love for her elf; she was
moved to do something she hadn't done since before she'd turned, hundreds of
years before. Looking down at the ground at her feet, she closed her
eyes and sent out a prayer - "Whatever Hell You
send me to, please, let me remember him," and quickly touched her
forehead, chest and each shoulder.
Legolas,
observing this out of the corner of his eye, smiled to himself but said
nothing.

The
Uruks, to embolden themselves and unnerve the defenders, had begun stamping
their feet, making a great noise.
Suddenly
an arrow came from one of the men in the Keep. Aragorn shouted
"Hold!" to those under his command and they all watched as the Uruk
hit by the arrow collapsed and fell forward.
Great
shouts of anger came from the Uruks and then, at a great roar from their
leader, they charged the fortress.
"Prepare
to fire!" shouted Aragorn and the elves drew their arrows to their bows.
Quietly,
as though he were just talking to himself and not communicating with the elves
fighting with him, Legolas said "their armour is
weak at the neck and beneath the arm"
"Release
arrows!" shouted Aragorn and their first volley of arrows was off.
"Did
they hit anything?" Gimli asked the Countess, who watched the Uruks hit by
the arrows fall. Every arrow had hit its target; every one counted but
what a small number of the enemy fell, she thought. Cries of "Fire!'
came from the Keep and she watched the arrows of the men of Rohan release and find their marks also.
The
Uruks kept coming though, running over the bodies of their fallen as though
they weren't there.
"Send
them to me!" shouted a frustrated Gimli; it did not suit him at all to
only wait while others did battle. "Come on!"
"You'll
get your wish," the Countess told Gimli, watching as the first Uruks
reached the Wall.
"Ladders!"
shouted Aragorn.
Gimli
could only reply "Good!"
The
ladders were pushed up to and against the Wall and Uruks came up the ladders
and over the Wall and close combat began.

The
Countess had drawn her sword at Aragorn's shouted command of
"Swords! Swords!" She fought and
killed, listening as Gimli and Legolas shouted kill totals to each other.
Fighting and killing and glad to be doing so, soon she found herself separated
from Legolas in spite of her efforts to stay close to him.

A
ladder would be knocked down from the Wall now and again but invariably it
would be raised again, bringing more of the unstoppable Uruk army up to the
defenders. She could still hear Gimli shouting out totals to Legolas and
looked up from killing an Uruk.
Disoriented, she thought she saw Legolas and ran over to her elf.
It wasn't Legolas but Haldir, who was also cloaked and bare-headed.
Disappointed,
she turned from him and, taking advantage of a momentary lull, she looked
around her, intent on finding Legolas. She heard Aragorn shout
"Causeway! and turned to look as the elves on the
Wall, still shooting arrows into the main part of the Uruk army, defended by
others fighting the Uruks on the wall, turned to fire arrows at the Uruks
marching up the causeway to the Gate.
Her
eyes caught movement at the bottom of the Wall. She saw orcs running out
of the culvert and another set of orcs bringing a strange device into the
culvert in the Wall and then running away. Walking over to see better,
her eyes widened. ‘That
doesn’t belong here,’ she thought.
And then she watched as the Uruks army opened
a path to the Wall for a huge Uruk bearing a strange torch. Panic welled
in her and she started pointing and screamed "Kill him! That
one! Kill him!"
Haldir
saw her panic and, drawing an arrow, quickly put it into the Uruk. But
the orc did not stop his run to the Wall and the Countess didn't stop
screaming.

Legolas
had heard her and, seeing the orc coming at the Wall, he drew and fired an
arrow at the orc. And
missed.
Aragorn
too was shouting now and, pushing away the astonishment he felt at his
miss, he drew and aimed another arrow at the orc. He fired
again.
And
missed again.

But
the Uruk with the torch was indeed hit again - by an elf standing by Aragorn,
who had heard Aragorn take up the Countess's shout after hearing the panic in
her voice.
Twice
hit by white arrows and already dead, the Uruk's
momentum carried him when his legs stopped being able to do so and he
disappeared into the drain in the Wall.
There
was a moment of silence where the Countess said to herself “Oh, Legolas.”

And
then the world turned to light and noise and the Wall blew apart.
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