The Adventures of Luthien in Middle Earth I

Part 6

Lúthien was, in fact, lying when she said to her hannar that she remembered the way to her room. In truth, she wanted to look around the palace. She would have been happy if Legolas could come with her, but he had work to do.

As she was looking for the way outside, she came across the training hall. She saw a beautiful elleth in there fighting the dummies. She had beautiful red hair and seemed to be quite skilled with the twin daggers as well as the bow.

"Who are you? What do you want?" asked the red hair elleth.

"I'm sorry.....I did not want to disturb you....I was just looking for the way to the stables. " Lúthien answered.

"And why should I believe you? You could be an assassin for all I know." Said the red-haired elleth.

"Me? Assassin? No way. " exclaimed Lúthien.

" I don't believe you. GUARDS!! " shouted the elleth.

"No, please," begged Lúthien as the red head made a hand gesture for them to take her to the dungeons.

The guards took her to the dungeons and threw her harshly inside a cell. Lúthien was not sure what she did wrong, but she wanted her hannar. The cell was cold and dirty and she missed her hannar.

As the dialogue between Legolas and Thranduil ended, and they were both ready to go their ways, a knock sounded from the door. Not waiting for anyone to come, they looked at each other confused. 'Who could it be?' they both thought at the same time. Thranduil signalled the guards to open the door and walked Tauriel.

"What is it that you want, Tauriel?" Thranduil asked her while a sigh left from his mouth. As someone could tell, Thranduil did not like Tauriel. Not only because she was too arogant, but also because she was leading on his son when she knew nothing could happen between them.

"My lord, I have caught an intruder. She is already in a cell in the dungeons. " 

"Good, where did you find her?"

"In the training grounds, my lord,"

Thranduil was now sure that who she caught was not an intruder but his daughter. There was no way an intruder could get so far inside unoticed. But he had to make sure that it was indeed his daughter.

"Legolas, go look for your muinthel. If she is not in her room, come back here, " Thranduil told his son.

"Yes, Adar."

When Legolas made his way out, Thranduil turned his attention back to Tauriel.

"Now be ready, young elleth, because if who you have caught is who I think she is, you are in big trouble," he threatened Tauriel.

After a while, Legolas came back running and full on hysterics.

"Adar, muintel nin is missing. She is not in her room," he said while on the verge of crying.

Legolas could not lose his muinthel after losing his mother at a young age. He had developed some abandonment issues. He had thought that the intruder had done something to his muinthel because he could not fathom that Tauriel would have done something to his precious muinthel.

"Relax, Legolas, your muinthel is okay, albeit a little traumatised but okay." Thranduil told his son. Then he turned to the guards.

"You will go to the dungeons, and you will free my seldë. You will not harm her. You will not even touch her." He told them with anger and authority in his voice.

"Yes, my lord," the guards saluted and left the room.

"As for you, Tauriel, you will no longer reside inside the palace. And you will no longer have authority over the guard till you learn that not every elf you don't know is an enemy." Thranduil told her angrily.

Tauriel bowed and gulped, " Yes, my lord."

At that moment, the guards came back with Lúthien in front of them. When Lúthien saw them, she ran to her Adar and hugged him while crying and saying how scared she was and how mean the red-haired elleth was to her. Thranduil welcomed her in his arms while murmuring sweet nothings to her.

You see, after being for so long on her own and having to bottle up her emotions to survive, Lúthien, had missed familial love, and so she was behaving like an elfling.

Legolas could not believe that his dear friend and the elleth that he liked had imprisoned his muinthel. When Tauriel glanced at him and motioned for him to help her, he could not look at her and avoided her eyes.

That night, Legolas hugged Lúthien to sleep because he wanted her near him after almost having a heart attack from the thought that he had lost her.

After that night, Lúthien never saw Tauriel inside the palace again, and she was free to go wherever she wanted inside the palace. Although Thranduil had sent an elf to be her shadow at all times, without her knowing, so there would not be a repeat of that night.

As for Tauriel, she was so confused as to what happened and had tried to get in touch with Legolas, but he was avoiding her.