The guardian of Rohan (Eowyn x Male reader)

Chapter 10 : Towards dangerous paths

The Fellowship walk over mountains, past ancient ruins, over hills,until they come to a stop to rest.

"We must hold this course west of the Misty Mountains for forty days. If our luck holds the Gap of Rohan will still be open to us. And there are road turns east to Mordor."

Sam walks over with a plate to Frodo who is sitting watching Merry and Pippin practice sword fighting with Boromir and Elion. Aragorn looks on also smoking a pipe.

"Good, very good" Boromoir says as he continues to practice with Pippin.

"Move your feet" Aragorn said looking curiously.

"You look good Pippin" Merry said. Pippin looks over his shoulder at Merry "Thanks"

"Don't get distracted!" Elion said with a slight surprise attack on Pippin.

"If anyone was to ask for my opinion, which I note that they're not, I'd say that we were taking the long way round. Gandalf, we could pass through the Mines of Moria. My cousin Balin would give us a royal welcome." Gimli commented as he sat, while Legolas was on watch.

However, Gandalf was cautious about touching anything related to Moria."No Gimli, I would not take the road through Moria unless I had no other choice."

Legolas runs in front of them and stands and stares at a grey cloud in the distance. Gandalf pauses to follow his eyes.

Meanwhile, Boromir's sword slips and he cuts Pippin's hand with his sword. Pippin drops his sword. "ARGH!"

"Sorry!" Boromir steps forward to look at Pippin's hand.

Pippin kicks Boromir in the leg.

"Get him!" Merry exclaims as he throws himself at Boromir.

The two hobbits wrestle Boromir to the ground and jump on him as Elion just stepped back as he whistled in ignorance . Aragorn looks on amused.

"For the Shire. Hold him, hold him down Merry!" Pippin exclaimed as Boromir laughs ; he was having fun.

"A little help, Aragorn?" Elion said, turning to look at him.

Aragorn gets up and takes hold of the hobbits" Gentlemen, that's enough!" But Merry and Pippin grab Aragorn's legs, throwing him backwards onto the ground. "You've got my arm... argh!... you've got my arm"

Sam stands up and notices that the cloud looking like dark specks is moving towards them."What is that?"

"Nothing, its just a whisp of cloud" Gimli said nonchalantly, but the others did not share his calm.

Boromir pauses from the scuffle and looks up. "Its moving fast.... against the wind"

"Crebain! From Dudland!" Legolas exclaimed in alert.

"Hide!" Aragorn commands as he runs to grab his sword.

They all run gathering their things and dousing the fire, and dash under the rocks out of sight.
A great flock of black crows flies over them, circles around and then flies off.
The Fellowship emerge from their hiding places.

Gandalf starts to look at the others."Spies of Saruman. The passage south is being watched..... We must take the Pass of Caradhras"

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The Fellowship are walking up the snowy slopes of the mountain. In a moment of clumsiness,Frodo stumbles, falls and rolls back down the slope.

Aragorn catches him and picks him up.As Frodo brushes the snow off himself, he notices that the Ring is no longer handing round his neck. Further up the mountain the Ring is picked up on its chain by Boromir; he holds the Ring dangling in front of his face in awe.