4. On Ravenhill

Five armies clashed here in the shadow of the mountain, and Men and horses, Elves, Dwarves, Goblins and Wargs, mingle together in death. Carrion birds cry overhead. My father Thranduil was right: There is no glory in war, and victory is dearly bought. I do not think I will find Mithrandir's small friend alive in this ruin. How could such a little fellow survive when so many great warriors did not?

And yet I hear someone calling as I turn the dead. I rise up, shading my eyes against the sun. "What voice is it that speaks among the stones?"

tbc...

A/N: The last line is a clean lift from The Hobbit. According to the book, it was a man that found Bilbo after the battle, not Legolas. But by golly, he's the son of Thranduil, and my imagination insists he had to be at the Battle of Five Armies somewhere, and why not here? Thus this teeny little bending of canon.