Day 25- Kitchen Wisdom

Kitchen Wisdom
Author: alexcat
Type: Gen.
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I do own this original character but I do not own Middle Earth or Tolkien’s characters, nor do I profit from using them.
Warnings: None
Characters: Oropher, Thranduil, Legolas, Oropher’s wife, Thranduil’s wife, Legolas, Original female character, Bellothia
Archive: Ao3, OEAM, Alex’s Story Book
Author’s Note: Jenny wanted a story about Oropher and Cook, so I decided to give her a month’s worth of them.
Spoilers: For the stories of Oropher and Thranduil, yes.
Summary: Every day, I will tell a little of the story of Bellothia, cook for the house of Oropher.

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Part Twenty-five

It was a few years later, when Thranduil and a company were hunting in the forest, that the man Strider found them again. He carried a big cloth bag with a wiggling, screaming creature inside it. All anyone could understand it saying were the words Baggins and precious.

Thranduil did remember a Halfling named Baggins at the battle of the Lonely Mountain. Perhaps that was what the thing was talking about.

“Can you hold him for me? I must find Mithrandir,” Strider asked.

Thranduil agreed and in the exchange, the horrid little thing escaped, jumping about until they chased it up a tree. The king set guards about, figuring that it had to come down sometime but in the night, something happened to the guards and all were found with bumps on their heads and no memory of what happened when daylight came.

There was also no sign of Gollum.

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