Middle-earth Raiders Full Plan

"We have to go down the mountain, we can't go any further!" Boromir shouted loudly amidst the blizzard flying all over the sky and the howling wind that could almost tear people's eardrums. , "Otherwise the hobbits will die!"

Gandalf was silent. Boromir's words were not unreasonable, but he still had a lot of concerns about the Balrog in the depths of the Moria mines.

"Gandalf!" Boromir urged him.

"Let the Ring-bearer decide," said Gandalf. "Frodo?"

Frodo was taken aback, not expecting that Gandalf would hand over the decision to him. He subconsciously looked at Sam and the others, but in their eyes they could only see a look of bewilderment.

"I..." He hesitated to speak.

"I don't agree." Anila spoke suddenly, and everyone's attention was immediately drawn by her, "I don't agree to let Frodo alone decide the fate of all of us. I know Frodo is The most important of us, but I think at least everyone should have their say."

Anila seldom puts on such a domineering air. Everyone reacted differently to these words. Boromir agreed, Aragorn was surprised, and the hobbits were slightly dissatisfied but did not object. Frodo felt a little complicated. But he was visibly relieved.

Unsurprisingly, Anila and Gimli strongly demanded to go to the mine, but Aragorn and Gandalf were reluctant. Boromir knew that his proposal to go to the Rohan Pass was useless, so he stood at his own house without hesitation. On the queen's side, the hobbits didn't understand the situation, so they simply compromised. Sam and Pippin listened to Gandalf, while Frodo and Merry decided to respect the opinion of the Queen of Gondor. Neither side would be offended.

"So the current situation is five to four, it depends on how you choose, pointy ears." Jin Li sighed loudly, "But I can tell with my toes how you will choose."

Indeed, for the elves who have no pressure to climb the snowy ground but hate the dark and closed underground, everyone thought that Legolas would choose to continue climbing the snow mountain.

So in the end it was a tie?This vote is really pointless and a waste of time!

Aragorn was about to say something when he heard Legolas say, "Let's go to the mines of Moria."

"Well, since the vote was inconclusive—wait a minute, Legolas, what did you say?"

"I said, let's go through the mine." Legolas thought that the wind and snow were too loud for others to hear clearly, so he repeated it with a higher volume.

"But you're not—" Aragorn finished speaking halfway, and in a blink of an eye, he suddenly noticed Anila's frightening pale face and lips, glanced at Legolas, and obediently closed his mouth.

"Ha, I really didn't expect that!" Gimli was very pleasantly surprised, and he looked at Legolas with admiration—only Legolas gave him a blank stare. "Then there are many people who choose to go to Moria now."

Gandalf looked at the crowd fixedly, without any obvious emotion: "That's it."

"You don't have to take all the responsibilities on yourself, Anila." When they went to the mines of Moria, Gandalf and Anila whispered behind their backs.

"I don't have one." Anila smiled. "The current choice is made by everyone. How can it be my responsibility?"

Gandalf looked at her helplessly: "The hobbit is not as fragile as you think, especially Frodo. We cannot share some of the burdens on him, and he has to choose some paths by himself."

"Because I know how heavy the responsibility is on Frodo's shoulders, I don't want us to put all the pressure on him." Anila became serious, "I know what you want to say, little people can change The world, fate is determined, history is made, and so on. Maybe the One Ring is indeed destined to be destroyed in the hands of Baggins. Maybe one day we can't help Frodo anymore, and he has to go on the journey alone, but Gandalf , Frodo had no obligation to do this. He was a simple and happy hobbit before. I hope he still looks like this after destroying the Lord of the Rings and returning to Shire, instead of being physically and mentally exhausted and scarred. Tired."

"As you are now?" asked Gandalf unexpectedly.

"What?" Anila narrowed her eyes.

"You have changed, Anila," Gandalf said. "These decades of sitting on the throne may seem to have made you sharp, but in fact it has worn your edges and corners. You have become cautious, I'm so preoccupied, I hope everything can be as perfect as possible, but I forget that there is no perfect thing in this world."

"Frodo... Frodo is different from me." Anila lowered her head and said with a faint smile, "After all, Frodo is just a small person in the vast world. After this adventure, he should return to I used to live a carefree, relaxed and natural life, but my fate was basically doomed since I was born."

"Oh, so you consider yourself a great man, Lynshet Telconte?" Gandalf snorted softly.

"Thousands of years later, some people may not think so, but I don't boast, at least for now, I still have the ability to change the entire situation in Middle-Earth with one sentence." Anila looked at it as a matter of course, "But the greater the power, The greater the responsibility, the more worries I have, because a wrong decision of mine may take away the happiness of many people's life, and the thing I hate the most is to bring pain and trouble to others because of me, In such a position, how do you make me careless and considerate? I am no longer the free and easy ranger, Gandalf." I am no longer the one who dares to love and hate, who writes whoever he likes in his eyes The ranger is gone.

Gandalf said nothing at once, and after a while he snorted angrily, "It's tiring talking to you now."

"Sorry, I'm not as innocent as a hobbit." Anila said with a smile.

There was another short silence, and Gandalf suddenly asked: "On the night Frodo and Aragorn were attacked by the Ringwraiths, the rangers of Númenor who 'just happened to be lucky' were the ones you let them guard in Fengyun early in the morning. Top it?"

Anila pursed her lips, smiled without saying a word.

"I don't know how you ghost girl figured that they would pass there in a few days." Gandalf shook his head, and when he turned his face away, he suppressed his smile and sighed.

When Bahrain recovered Moria 30 years ago, Anila also sent envoys from Gondor to express her congratulations, and euphemistically reminded the dwarves to dig in moderation and not to dig too deep, but now it seems that this It doesn’t work for dwarves, just like Sol ignored Thranduil’s warning 200 years ago and insisted on collecting money. Although Bahrain greeted the envoys of Gondor with a smile on the surface due to past affection, he was not convinced by Anila’s advice in his heart. Disapproval.

then……

"This place has been captured by goblins." Boromir gritted his teeth and looked at Anila anxiously. "Now there is still time to turn around and go to the Rohan Pass."

"No." Anila shook her head, "Let's move on."

Boromir subconsciously wanted to refute, but under Anila's unquestionable resolute attitude, he struggled for a long time before lowering his head: "Yes."

"Now why doesn't she say she wants everyone to vote?" whispered Pippin. "I don't want to go in there at all."

"Come on, stop talking, Pippin." Merry stopped him softly. "That's Queen Lynshelt, Velodis! Have you forgotten Bilbo's story? Besides, we have Gandalf, Where are the striders and the elves! If none of these can cheer you up, you might as well stay in Rivendell in the morning."

They walked for two days and one night in the mines of Moria, and came to the Marsabul Hall, where they found Balin's tombstone and sarcophagus, as well as the annals of how Moria was captured by orcs. Everyone listened attentively to Gandalf's recitation of that period of history, but no one noticed Pippin's hands and feet—well, someone noticed, but after hesitating for a moment, that person chose to ignore it.

Pippin accidentally made a loud noise, attracting a large number of goblins and a difficult troll.

The people fought with that ogre for a long time, all the ones who could fight and those who could not be hit, but they still couldn't take it down. The Lord of the Rings has an indescribable attraction for evil creatures, and this ogre also No exception, relying on his rough skin and thick flesh, he didn't care about other people's attacks at all, and soon set his sights on Frodo.

Aragorn, Merry, and Pippin tried with all their might to stop the Troll, but the monster was so strong that with a wave of its hand Aragorn was thrown out, and with one of his spears it struck Frodo viciously. .

At this time, only Anila is closest to Frodo and has the potential to stop the troll.

"Ani!" Aragorn shouted loudly.

But the ogre still stabbed Frodo, Frodo showed an expression of extreme pain, while Gandalf and the others looked panicked and desperate.

However, Anila seized the gap of this second, grabbed the chain around its neck and jumped onto the ogre's back, raised the holy sword of Anduril with her right hand, and slammed it on the top of the ogre's head. stabbed down.

This must be the end, Legolas watched the scene with wide eyes.

However, when the holy sword of Anduril pierced halfway in, Anila paused for some reason, switched to holding the sword in her left hand, and finally pierced the entire long sword into the ogre's head, but it also gave the ogre In the final struggling moment, he clumsily grabbed Anila and threw her out.

"Frodo!" The ogre fell with a crash, and all the crowd gathered around Frodo nervously.

Anila's eyes were full of stars, and she gasped hissingly, feeling as if all the bones in her body had been smashed.

"Are you okay, Anila?" Someone helped her to sit up, and Anila shook her head vigorously, only to realize that the shiny golden hair in front of her was Legolas.

"Alive." She sighed, unwilling to say anything more.

Before Anila could recover, Aragorn suddenly strode over, grabbed her by the collar, and pulled her up from the ground.

"Aragorn! What are you doing?" Legolas was anxious.

Aragorn signaled him to shut up with his eyes, looked back at the others, approached Anila, lowered his voice, and gritted his teeth: "I saw it."

Anila looked at him coldly: "What?"

"At that time, you were the closest to Frodo, and you could stop that ogre, but you didn't move until the moment it stabbed Frodo." Aragorn's wolf-like eyes Staring at Anila, the anger in her voice could not be concealed.

"That's the easiest time to get it." Anila said, "Otherwise, I'm not 100% sure that I can kill that thing in one go."

Aragorn looked at Anila in disbelief: "Our goal is to protect Frodo and the Lord of the Rings, Anila! We are not here to hunt trolls! If Frodo hadn't been wearing mithril armor, he would be What's the point of killing a thousand trolls?"

"I know Frodo wears mithril armor," said Anila again. "He shall not die."

Aragorn looked at Anila like he was looking at a madman: "Just because of this? Because you know that Frodo will not die wearing Mithril armor, so you can watch him in danger?"

Anila was silent.

Aragorn laughed angrily. "Okay! You can, Lian Xuete. After 40 years of empress, you are becoming more and more 'calm and rational'. Should I praise you for being far-sighted and decisive?"

"Aragorn!" Legolas scowled, warning.

Aragorn let go of Anila's collar, and his voice was filled with anger and disappointment, "I'm afraid you can't remember what you were like before, Your Majesty."

Anila lowered her head and clenched her fists.

Then they escaped from Moria and came to the Golden Lorraine.

At night, Anila sat on the root of an old tree with thick branches, silently in a daze, her mind full of scenes of Gandalf falling into the abyss and Aragorn's angry words.

Knowing that the final result is good, can the ogre be allowed to assassinate Frodo, and Pippin be allowed to attract the Balrog, regardless of how much panic and sorrow the companion's "sacrifice" will bring?

But if the troll hadn't stabbed Frodo, she couldn't have killed the troll so cleanly, could she?If Gandalf didn't die with the Balrog, then he couldn't become a white robe wizard and stop Saruman's conspiracy, right?These things should have happened inevitably, but only she knew this, but if she stopped these things out of impulsiveness, it might lead to the failure of the Fellowship of the Ring.

Oh come on.There was a small voice in her heart mocking her.You let those things happen only because you are cowardly and cowardly, dare not change the original direction of the story, dare not face the unknown possibility, because once you fail, you can never go back to the past and start all over again.Like Gandalf said, you want everything to be perfect and under your control, so you'd rather be a bystander and let other people suffer than be part of it, you're a coward, Ah Nila.

Unable to refute the deepest voice in her heart, she covered her face in pain, fingers in her hair.

"Ani?" Suddenly someone called her that.

Anila raised her head sharply to look at that person.

"...it's you, Legolas."

"You hope that Aragorn will come to you, don't you?" Legolas sat down beside her lightly, seeing Anila's hopeful little face drooping again, and smiled helplessly, "Still Thinking about Moria?"

"Hmm..." Anila was listless, "You haven't gone to rest yet?"

"A lot of people can't sleep today," sighed Legolas. "After all, we lost Gandalf."

Anila bit her lip.

"Most of what Aragorn said today was angry, don't take it too seriously." Legolas comforted her.

"Then what do you think, Legolas?" Anila looked at him suddenly, "For example, if you knew earlier that Gandalf was not dead, even, when we saw him next time, his power Will become stronger, then, will you still try your best to prevent him from being dragged down by the Balrog?"

Legolas was a little dazed: "But, how could I know in advance what hasn't happened yet?"

"Don't worry about the reason, anyway, you already know." Anila was unreasonable, "Tell me, if the final result is good, then it's worth enduring the pain for a while, right?"

"Well..." Legolas looked up at the sky, "Let me give you an analogy, Annie."

Once upon a time, there was a woman who liked a man, so she confessed to the man. The man also liked women in his heart, but for some reason, he hesitated for a moment and did not agree immediately. Just before he made up his mind, he saw the woman's future by chance. ——The woman did not marry him in the end, but she still lived a very happy life.Men ask themselves, if I marry her, will our future be as happy as this?The answer is no, no one knows what the future will be like when a man and a woman are together, maybe it will be better than the future that the man sees, or it may only be endless pain and suffering, so the man finally rejected the woman's proposal Confession.

"Ani, if you were that girl, would you be willing to let go of the man's choice for the happy ending in the future?" Legolas asked her softly.

Anila took a deep breath, lowered her head and buried her face in her arms.

"Because I know a fairly good ending, I just want a safe ending, and I dare not imagine and pursue a better future. Maybe some people think it's worth it, but at least I know Ani," Legolas looked at Anila tenderly, "It is the one who yearns for freedom the most, fears no challenges the most, and will never succumb to the so-called fate."

Anila sniffed and frowned at him: "When did you become so good at coaxing people?"

Legolas smiled: "Huh? Isn't it Ani, are you comforting me? Thanks to you, I don't feel so sad about losing Gandalf now. That is to say, Mithranda is Maia, how can I be so sad?" easy to die."

"You are so smooth when you call Ani one by one..."

Legolas was very calm. "Well, on the issue of titles, I have been jealous of Aragorn for a long time."

"Don't act like we know each other very well! We clearly, clearly..." Anila frowned.

"Obviously they are just old friends who have known each other for 60 years, but they just happen to trust, respect, value, and love each other?" Legolas asked.

"Oh, why haven't I seen you for a while, you have become so glib! Yes, glib!" Anila was ashamed and annoyed, "Didn't I tell you clearly enough?"

"Where is it clear?" Legolas is quite calm now, and Anila is not in a hurry, "Aside from telling me that you don't want to be with me for no reason, what else did you say? Oh yes , you still said that you still love me, then this is even more strange, no matter what, you have to give me a convincing reason."

"Reason, reason! What more reason do you need?! Do elves and mortals love each other but can't combine? Isn't this absurd in itself? You're not a half-elf like Arwen!"

"But I've always been an elf, and I didn't become an elf just a few years ago." Legolas calmly pointed out the contradiction in Anila's words, "You didn't mind it before."

Anila was at a loss for words, and her usual eloquence seemed to fly away: "That's... this is different, I was ignorant before, but now I understand it, can't I?"

"Really? I think you used to think quite clearly, but now you are becoming more and more ignorant." The old god Legolas was there, and Anila wanted to slap him when she saw it, "I know what you think , instead of letting me taste the sweetness of 100 years first, and then feel sad after [-] years, it is better for the two of us to torture each other together. Satisfied, passed away safely, and I wandered in Valinor with eternal regret..."

"I didn't think that way! I'm not a pervert!" Anila was impatient, but couldn't help laughing.

"Then you expect an elf to empathize with another." Legolas added the emphasis on "elf". "Sorry, Annie, Iluvita didn't give us this nature when he created us."

"How do you know that your feelings for me are love?" Anila was absolutely unconvinced and lost to Legolas in the bickering, "You used to swear to me that you love Tauriel!"

"..."

One hit kill!Sure enough, such things as black history are unacceptable, and Thranduil and Anila will always talk about it!

Legolas was speechless. After a long time, he changed the subject: "By the way, I never asked you, Annie, what happened to your eyes?"

……

It was as if a basin of cold water had been poured over his head.

"I've been covering it with bangs, so I can't see clearly?" Legolas said, stretching out his hand very naturally, brushing away the hair in front of Anila's eyes.

The distance was too close, and Anila couldn't dodge in time, and her whole body froze immediately.

The eye covered by the hair was cloudy, out of focus, and lifeless, like a pool of stagnant water, with an obvious scar running from the corner of the eyebrow to the eye.

Anila opened Legolas' hand, turned and ran away, leaving Legolas standing there with a look of astonishment.