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Title: Greenleaf & Imladris 22 - Bereth: To Have and To Hold

Author: Eressë (eresse21@yahoo.com)

Pairing: Elrohir/Legolas

Rating: NC-17

Summary: Legolas and Elrohir’s love is beset from within by misunderstandings and from without by an evil from an age long past.

Disclaimer: I write for the sheer enjoyment of it. All else belongs to the grand old wizard of storytelling himself, JRR Tolkien.

Author’s Note: This story takes place some ten years after the events narrated in Calenlass: Heart of a Prince. Inspiration for certain parts came from The Silmarillion. I was in an experimental mood when I wrote this part so it may differ somewhat in style and content from the previous stories.

Bereth: To Have and To Hold

Prologue: Portents

Eryn Lasgalen, hrîvë FA 32

Winter this year in the lands east of the Misty Mountains seemed at once mild and harsh at the same time. Snow and ice had failed to materialize leaving paths clear and treetops unburdened yet the ground was frozen solid and the carcasses of birds and beasts littered the forest, slain by the unforgiving cold of many a cruel night. It was strange weather considering that the peaks and slopes of the Misty Mountains were crowned in frost and blanketed with snow. And travelers coming over the high passes before they closed reported the west to be steadily slipping into the usual pristine embrace of the season.

But despite the oddities of the situation, certain routines were not in the least disrupted as proven by the party of Elven rangers that made its stealthy way along the wending tracks of the forest. They hailed from the Woodland Realm of Northern Eryn Lasgalen. That they were out on patrol in such bone-chilling weather was testament not only to the Elves’ unrelenting devotion to keeping their realm safe and secure but to the exigencies spawned by the said weather.

The lack of snow and ice had encouraged the orcs that infested the deeps of Hithaeglir and the Ered Mithrin to come out of their usual winter’s hiding and raid the settlements at the feet of the mountains. Not content with that, they had dared to break Greenwood’s borders in their never ending need to inflict as much mayhem as they could on its denizens, whether Elven or otherwise. The Silvan Elves, Beornings and Woodmen had retaliated in kind, decimating the invading goblins with equal ferocity and even greater efficiency.

Distrustful of the orcs’ retreat to their mountain strongholds, the Wood-elves now kept constant patrol of their borders lest any treacherous groups should attempt to re-enter the forest.

However that was not the only reason they combed the woods so assiduously.

This particular troop of rangers had proceeded to the northern reaches of the Wood of Greenleaves, drawn by some vague but nevertheless palpable evil. Their affinity with their forest home enabled them to understand the whispers of the trees and plants and grass and those whispers had alluded to peril in the north. The fairly recent strange occurrences in these environs lent credence to the trees’ rustling warnings.

The northern bounds had long known no dangers beyond the usual incursions of orcs and brigands and the occasional blundering troll. But in the last quarter century or so, there had been a disturbing number of unexplained disappearances in this neck of the green wood. The first victims had been from the human caravans that infrequently plied the routes on the outskirts of the forest. In all cases, it was the women who vanished; the men were always slain without exception. None survived to tell the tale of the women’s fates. It was assumed they had been abducted but there was no knowing who had done so or why. No demand for ransom ever came forth nor was there any evidence of enforced servitude anywhere amongst the inhabited regions of the north. The women were simply never heard from again.

Thranduil, Elvenking of the Woodland Realm, had been troubled by such tidings but even with the aid of the Beornings and Woodmen and the collusion of neighboring Dale and Esgaroth, the mystery had remained unsolved. But in the first years of the past decade, the number of women who disappeared had suddenly escalated and, even more alarming to the Elves, had begun to include their own.

With the downfall of Sauron and the destruction of his fortress of Dol Guldur in the southern reach of the former Mirkwood, the caution of all the forest dwellers had lessened. After the elimination of the great spiders that had once infested the dark woods, men had started to build colonies in the south of the forest though they were careful not to trespass upon the territory of the Elves of East Lórien. Though Celeborn had since forsaken that realm in favor of his grandsons’ company in Imladris, many of his people stayed on, awaiting only his summons to join him when at last he should pass West.

While men explored the south, the Elves of the woodland kingdom had tamed the north. There were many flourishing, far-flung colonies scattered in the area. It was from the most remote of these settlements that the Elf-women had been taken. Again the disappearances had followed the previous pattern. The females had been taken, the rest slain to seal their lips forever.

Thranduil had promptly recalled his people, moving them back to the more secure regions of his realm. As a result, there had been no further incidents involving the Wood-elves but human women continued to vanish here and there. Ever mindful of his duty to those within his area of responsibility, seeking to prevent deeper incursions of whatever it was that had bedeviled the colonies and mayhap discover its nature, the Elvenking had decreed that the northern reaches would be as thoroughly patrolled as the west.

The inexplicable disappearances had finally ceased and there had been no new reported cases for three years now. But the Elves refused to relax their vigilance and continued to keep a close watch on the northern bounds of the wood.

Now the most recent patrol scoured the wood, drawn by a sense of something having occurred though they had not the slightest notion what that could be. It was just as they were set to give up and turn back that two of their number finally found what they sought.

There, nearly hidden by the gnarled roots of a tree, lay a man or rather the body of one. A little further off they found two more bodies in much the same state as the first.

With mingled horror and awe, one scout raced back to the troop’s captain and made his report. The captain hastened to the tangled grove in which the rangers had made their gruesome discovery.

He stood tall and proud this Elven warrior; was slender of frame yet formidable of form. Beautiful as sunlight with his golden hair, bright blue eyes and ivory skin, he seemed unsuited for the role demanded of him. Yet his appearance belied his peerless skill whether in archery or outright battle.

Legolas, youngest prince of the woodland kingdom, stared down at the corpses. He grimaced in revulsion and not a little perturbation as he wondered who or what in Arda could have done this. And how.

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Glossary:

bereth - spouse

hrîvë - Sindarin for winter

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