Dragonborn from Lord of the Rings

Chapter 85 The Snitch and the Northern Rebellion

Then Bilbo heard footsteps.

Several servants of the king walked up from the bottom of the steps, talking to each other: "Hurry up, don't miss the king's banquet! I don't want to be scolded."

Someone said: "These dwarves can really drink. They have almost drank all the wine in the wine cellar these days, but it will take several days for the human ship from Aesgalos to arrive. This is too worrying. .”

"You should speak to the steward!" said the third, in a voice that was a little gleeful. They joked with the second servant in front, saying that if he dared to report such trivial matters to the king, the king of elves would surely kill his head. Cut it off and let him report to the palace of Mandos in advance.

"If it was His Royal Highness Legolas, he wouldn't do this." The No.2 servant complained, and the No.1 servant carried a large barrel of wine and walked past the invisible hobbit.

"Your Highness has had a lot of quarrel with His Majesty recently, maybe he will take it out on you first." No. 4 servant said, holding a small barrel of brandy in his hand, which is more mellow and stronger than wine.

The Elven King likes to drink such fine wine.

So No.2 servant's complaints stopped abruptly.

They walked farther and farther, and seemed to be heading for the King's Hall, and no one noticed the hobbit hiding in the corner.

"Ha! It turns out I'm not the only one who finds these dwarves annoying. Their manners at the table are really terrible!" Bilbo couldn't help but slander secretly while thinking about the message from the elf's mouth.A vague idea gradually became clear.

He walked down the stone steps along the way the elves had come, and no one could see him until he came to a cellar where a large number of wine barrels were stored.

He avoided the guards' eyes and slipped past them.

One of the elves looked around the corner strangely, but found nothing. He shook his head in doubt.

Bilbo hid behind a large wine barrel and looked at the cellar for a long time. Through the conversation between the king's servant and the guard, he discovered a secret of the Elf King's palace——

Under a huge wooden plank in the cellar, a river flows, and after crossing the meandering river, it joins the Jungle River in the east and flows into a lake called Esgalos.

The king's wine, certain goods were traded from a human town on the lake.

Every month, or when these large wooden barrels are empty, the elves will open this movable large wooden board, push these wooden barrels to the river below, let them flow along the river to the junction point downstream, let Humans took them back and refilled them.

"Perhaps Lord Turka has foreseen all of this." After confirming all the elements, the thought in the hobbit's heart became clearer. He calculated carefully, and as a result, he thought that the success rate of this plan was still very high. Then he thought happily: "It's my turn to save these dwarves again, I must succeed this time!"

In fact, when he slipped back into the chamber the Elven King had prepared for him, something else made his plan easier to carry out.

The reason is this:

Legolas has always been very dissatisfied with the elf king's "imprisonment" of Thorin, thinking that this would violate the trust and entrustment of the silver king-Turka had hoped that the elves would help the dwarves in this adventure before leaving, but Seran Dill clearly has his plans.

He said to Thorin: "I know that you have found a way to enter the mountain. I will not spy on the treasure of the dwarves, and I can finance your reckless actions, but I only have one small condition: Thror has promised to help me. Create a necklace, it is as bright as stars, and it is like a lover's gaze, it is made of pure white gemstones in series, it is the ultimate treasure! For me!"

Speaking of this necklace, the Elven King's eyes even showed a trace of nostalgia, because he originally made it for his deceased wife, but after the necklace was completed, the dwarf left the treasure that originally belonged to the elf.

This directly led to a sharp decline in the relationship between the two races - anyway, that's what the Elf King said.

So Thranduil proposed to Thorin that he would bless the actions of the dwarves if they would return the necklace.

But facing Thranduil's "cooperation conditions", the dwarf king, who was dazed by his stubbornness and resentment, directly and loudly rejected it with contempt.

He said: All the treasures in the Lonely Mountain belong to the royal family of Turin. The elf king's rhetoric is just another group of robbers' conspiracy to snatch it. He will never allow even a single gold coin to fall into the hands of the elf king.

The dwarf king said this: "Even if the world is destroyed, I will no longer believe in any of Thranduil's promises, because this proud elf king is not trustworthy at all!"

It is conceivable how angry the Elf King was when the dwarf king's extremely ignorant accusations sounded in the king's hall.

This anger even directly caused Thranduil to make these stubborn and hateful dwarves suffer even if he disobeyed the silver king's orders.

"So."

The Elf King said with a livid face, "Just think about it in my palace, I hope you can go to the lonely mountain in time."

We all know what happened after that.

The stubborn dwarf king and his adventurous party are all under house arrest.Perhaps Thranduil will eventually let the dwarves go, but that will be for a while.

But Turka Arakano, who was able to restore the conflict between the two sides, had already rushed back to Anuminas in a hurry.

The news from Radagast, the brown robe, was so alarming that he had to hurry back.

However, after the persevering pleading and persuasion of the elf prince, finally a few days later, the elf king revoked the house arrest of Thorin.

And this also gave Bilbo's escape plan a great success rate.

But that's for later.

Now, let's look a little north, because what's happening here is also very important.

On the night when Arathorn was assassinated, Fenner and Galdo, who came a step behind, could only snatch the body of the Vice Prime Minister and repel the half-orcs who sneaked into the north without knowing when.

and their leaders.

A tall human with black Númenorean bloodlines—these assassins immediately rode a wolf when they saw something wrong, and fled far away.

Although the elf chased after him.But in the end, a small group of assassins escaped.

Looking at the mysterious person who escaped into the darkness, Fenna's eyes showed a trace of worry, she said: "Let them go, don't chase them, let's go back!"

This order came very timely.

For not long after the elves and human rangers had left the city, a gang of thugs attacked the King's Tower.

Most of them appear to be slaves who were rescued many years ago, but in fact, these human beings have been enslaved and tortured by the Dark Lord for many years, and their will and soul have been corrupted and polluted. In the end, their bodies and minds have become the evil will of Sauron. slave.

They worked with ordinary slaves, acting as Sauron's eyes and spies, monitoring and framing those free people who refused to submit to the Dark Lord.

They are no different from ordinary humans in appearance, but their hearts are distorted and they have no conscience. They only know how to fulfill Sauron's orders.One of the most despised of the many minions of the Dark Lord.

In the war many years ago, the Dark Lord was driven out of Central Continent. These insidious guys lost their loyal master, but they lurked down.

Instigated by the Dark Lord, some of these guys followed Exelion to the holy white city of Minas Tirith, acting as spies of the Dark Lord, and continuously passed information about the human world to the Tibetans. Sauron in the dark;

A part of them returned to the north with the silver king, and hid down until the order of the dark devil came again.

They took advantage of their identities to trick Arathorn out of Anuminas, and conspired to assassinate him!

When the elf also led the rest of the guards out of the king's tower, the city was empty, and these hidden spies immediately rioted.

They proclaimed: "We are cursed! The Silver King saved our bodies, but our souls are still corrupted. The shadow of the Dark Lord covers the ancient city in the north, and he vows to punish his servants who betrayed him! This plague is an omen! "

At the same time, they took advantage of people's fear of the plague to stir up trouble in the city.

"The elves do nothing about it! They have bewitched the Silver King, imprisoned him in a tower, and must not hear the cries of his subjects' grief! This is treachery, and the Dúnedain and the elves planned it all, and they want To usurp the authority of the King of the North! Let us break down that icy tower and rescue the supreme Turka Arakano, so that we may have the hope of survival!"

At that time, although Turka left the Elessa gem to Fenna and asked Arazon to save those poor people, many northern residents were inexplicably affected by witchcraft, and soon fell down and died.

So many residents were afraid. At that moment, their hearts recalled those dark years in Mordor, remembered the horror of the Dark Lord, and were frightened by the torture and slavery of the past. Fear and shadows returned to their hearts. heart.

In addition, in the crowd, many spies are secretly bewitching and lobbying secretly: they are like poisonous snakes, hissing and spitting out venom, poisoning people's hearts and minds.

Many hot-headed people have been fooled, and fear has made them lose their minds;

The respect and love for the silver king also makes them unable to discern these false lies.

Eventually, the riots started.

They shouted the slogan of saving the silver king, and marched towards the highest level of the King's Ring.

Although some people tried their best to dissuade them, people didn't listen. Many people even just heard that there were people gathering in the square, so they went out to watch out of curiosity, but they were all coerced into it.

The mob passed through the trading area on the first floor, entered the living area on the second floor, and rushed into the garden area on the third floor until they broke into the King's Ring.

Here, the Tower of Elendil (Room of Elendil, Tower of the King) stands tall and heavily guarded.

The guard of the royal city, Harbalad, even yelled at these thugs in front of the high steps: "Stop! This is the king's room! How dare you rush here!"

At that time, the left-behind elves and Dúnedain had already known about the riots in the city, but the ignorant people were instigated by the black hands behind the scenes, and they were bustling and bustling.

Wholeheartedly want to 'save' the silver king.

Hal Barad and the others couldn't identify them one by one, and they didn't dare to order the slaughter.

Because a large part of them are unarmed, and many of them are even brought here by innocent people.They didn't want to storm the king's attendants and guards, but the tumultuous crowd didn't allow them to identify themselves.

Thus, the two sides started a confrontation in front of the King's Tower.

The guards, led by Hal Barad, formed a shield wall above the steps, separating the huge crowd from the King's Tower, and not allowing them to break into this sacred tower.

And the crowd seemed to be slowly calming down.

After all, many people were just frightened by fear, and their heads were hot for a while, and they didn't really want to conflict with the guards representing the king.

Until, an arrow in the darkness pierced the night sky, brushed Hal Barad's cheek, and flew towards the shield wall guarded by the royal city.

The faces of both sides changed at the same time.

　Thank you Xing Ming for the 5000 starting coins!
　　Thank you for the 5000 starting coins in the autumn rain evening!
　　Thank you Wuxin Dafa for the 100 starting coins!
　　Thanks to Autumn Rain and Dusk, Xing Ming raving, not passing by in a hurry, DeathHonour, the monthly ticket of the sleeping caterpillar.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)