Love conquers Everything

“SOMEWHERE IN ROHAN”

Eomer sat near the campfire in deep thoughts. He had tried to distract himself all day from thinking of what the people in Edoras were doing. He wondered how the king and his sister fared. The slightest thought of Eowyn made him uncomfortable. He knew Wormtongue’s feelings towards her; and that Grima had the king’s favour. Half of him, the brother in him, wanted to ride back to Edoras and break every bone in Wormtongue’s body for even looking at her. While the other half of him wanted to obey his king. After all, he had always been taught to obey his king no matter what. And he had given an oath in doing so; even if it meant leaving the country in exile. He sighed deeply and tried to think of something else. He tried to think of something else, to distract him from these unpleasant thoughts, and came to think of a strange company he and his men had met a couple of days ago. He remembered the meeting very well.

They had surrounded them and asked for their names and business. A man had stepped forward and introduced them.

“I am Aragorn son of Arathorn. And this is Legolas from Mirkwood and Gimli son of Gloin.”

Then he had pointed towards a fourth figure whose face was covered in a hood. “And this is lady Arwen, daughter of Elrond.”

The woman removed her hood and Eomer had to draw in a deep breath, as did most of his men. She was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen! She inspected him with her sapphire eyes and then gave him a small nod.

Aragorn started speaking again and Eomer had to force himself to look at him. Aragorn told him that they were a group of Uruk Hais that had taken two small Hobbits captive. Eomer had told them that he and his men had attacked a group late at night and killed everyone. No one survived.

He had given them two horses and pointed out where they had burned the bodies. But he had told them not to hope too much. He had watched them ride off, his eyes never leaving Arwen’s back as she sat behind Aragorn on the horse.

Eomer wondered what they were doing now. Or truth to be told, he wondered what Arwen was doing now. Probably sleeping like I should, he thought and lay down on his back. He kept having these dreams about her, and he didn’t exactly mind them. It was nice to dream about a woman who was not a bar maid or a wench. He looked at the stars and smiled.

They reminded him of her eyes.

ON THE WAY TO HELMS DEEP

Aragorn laughed hard when Arwen told him about the time she had been little and accidentally put fire on some curtains and let her brothers take the blame. Knowing full well what Elrohir and Elladan were capable of Aragorn didn’t blame Elrond for accusing them.

“So what did your father do when he found out,” he asked her smiling.

“Who said he found out,” came the reply, which caused him to laugh again.

Arwen gave him a mischievous grin and turned her head away to look over the crowd. Her eyes fell on Eowyn who was walking in the front with her uncle. Eowyn had been avoiding her since yesterday. Arwen suspected that Eowyn was having feelings towards Aragorn. She wasn’t sure if Aragorn had noticed. If he had he hid it quite well. She didn’t wish to confront Eowyn just yet; thinking that starting a fight in the middle of a war wasn’t such a good idea. Besides, she couldn’t exactly blame her for feeling the way she does.

Suddenly someone started to scream in the front. Aragorn gave her the reins and ran over to see what was going on. He came back screaming that they were under attack! He ran over to her, took the reins from her and grabbed her hand.

“Melda, please listen to me. I know you want to fight and help us. But these people need someone to escort them safely to the fortress. Could you do that?” He looked at her with pleading eyes and she nodded slowly.

He gave her a single kiss on her red lips before mounting the horse and riding away. She followed him with her eyes before turning around and tried to calm the people down.

At the same time Eowyn was told by the king to do the same thing as Arwen. She had agreed, unwillingly. Eowyn made eye contact with Aragorn before he turned around and rode away. She too stood and looked after him before she turned around to meet Arwen’s gaze. The two women looked at each other for a brief moment before turning around.