Chapter 26: Hospitality (Part 2)
It's embarrassing for the expedition team right now!
Everything in the vicinity was familiar, except that instead of on this main road, they walked through the jungle surrounded by low bushes and gloomy forests!
They had been walking on forest paths before, but they didn't know that maybe they would walk a mile or two south and there was such a straight avenue next to it!
Thinking about walking in the riverbed with two feet of mud before, Wang Yonghao and the others all looked at the old Bahrain and the Filichili brothers who were scouts with resentment!
When they saw the ruins of these ugly towers in the north of the road, they knew that they were near the dangerous trolls forest, but at that time they saw that there were these ruins of towers in the southwest......
None of the members of the expedition team spoke, let alone mentioned that they had been here, because it was so humiliating!
From the Thorin Oak Shield onwards, they even deliberately pretended not to be here, showing that everything around them was very novel, but in fact the elves did not look back at their expressions, everything was just their own inner nervousness. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
As the road turned a bend along the river, the hills began to slowly encircle the people, and they continued along the road towards the Brunan River, passing a dark and silent narrow valley.
The cliffs of the valley were full of old trees, and then many towering pine trees, which looked eerie, but the people of the expedition recognized that this was the place where the trolls had been chased out by the wolf cavalry in the morning were located.
"I didn't expect us to go around in a circle and come back again!" Filipe pulled old Balin and said.
"Indeed, you have gone out from here all the way to the Eaton Valley, far north of Rivendell, and along this road you can reach the Brunan Ferry, and then you will enter Rivendell."
Their conversation, though cautious, was overheard by the gray-robed wizard Gandalf, who explained, "To tell if we're on the right track, look at the mountains, as long as they're on our left, and we can see the river of noise!" ā
The dwarves then knew that as long as they were in the noisy river, the closest place to them was the intersection of the avenue and the ferry.
Walking from the avenue, the sky looks so beautiful, but if the weather is good, people's luck may not be too bad, dwarves have always thought so!
It was already past noon, and it had been nearly half an hour since they had reached the top of the slope.
And in the gap between the scorching sun and the forest, they saw three tall trolls standing in the forest halfway up the mountain beside the road.
"Trolls! Get ready for battle! Old Balin directly raised his weapon and shouted!
The group of elegant elves in one-piece iron armor looked back at him in great surprise, and Thorin looked at the three trolls seriously and pulled his cousin sharply.
Lord Elon slowed down the speed of the horses, and the whole team changed from galloping to trotting, at which time Lord Elrond, who was leading at the front, turned around and said elegantly, "Lord Balin, you don't need to kill the petrified trolls a second time during the day!" ā
"Uh......"
"That is, there is no need for anyone to die at the hands of the dwarves a second time!" Old Bahrain answered embarrassedly, and everyone silently went on the road again.
After a few more miles, the avenue parted ways with the Roaring River, and continued close to the hills, skirting the forests and slopes towards the Misty Mountains and the ferry.
After another twenty miles, the avenue now turns right into a valley and heads straight for the Brunan ferry.
From then on, it took more than four hours from about half past nine in the morning for them to reach the Brunan ferry.
After another half an hour, when the sun had begun to turn westward, they came to an area surrounded by pine forests, where the avenue went deep into a tunnel surrounded on both sides by red rocks, through which the road led to an open plain. The members of the expedition team could see the endless flat land ahead, and some distance away was the ferry crossing of Rivendell.
By two o'clock, it was time for afternoon tea, and after five hours, they finally arrived at the valley where Rivendell was located!
Rivendell, known as Imra Tri in Sinda, means "Deep Rift", is an elven stronghold founded by the half-elf Elon in the Second Age in the Misty Mountains of Middle-earth.
The elven nobles of Middle-earth, the descendants of the heroes of mankind, the descendants of the heroes of the human race, the fallen kings of Arnor, are all gathered in this stronghold, protected by Elrond.
Gandalf calls her the last elven sanctuary east of the sea], implying of course that Valinor is on the west side of the Sea of Belegaire.
When they looked by the river at the elven palace surrounded by mountain peaks in the midst of cliffs, waterfalls, and exotic flowers and plants, they did smell the air full of the fragrance of trees and see the warm lights shining from the valley......
"It's spectacular!"
The young dwarven Phirichli brothers, who had never seen the dwarven lonely mountain, were amazed at the magnificence of the House of Elon!
The brothers Thorin and Barin Dewarin, even the prosperous dwarves who have experienced the lonely mountain, have to marvel at the gorgeous architecture that is completely different from the rugged style of the dwarves!
However, Thorin Oak Shield, who has always been arrogant or extremely self-respecting, but in fact extremely inferior, will never let himself show his shock on his face.
They climbed up this side of the river and came to the unguarded stone bridge that connected the inside and outside.
The bridge was really narrow, but it wasn't as narrow as it might seem, and though it wasn't enough for two ponies to walk side by side, it was easy for a light horse or an elven warhorse to cross.
The group crossed the unfenced stone trestle and entered the square in front of the bridge in Rivinedale under the gaze of the two stone statues of elven warriors at the bridgehead.
From this upwards is a staircase leading to the House of Elon, and the entire complex is built on this halfway slope, connected by a staircase and a cloister.
The group of less than twenty elves entered the platform and dispersed to prepare for a banquet for the dwarves, while Lord Elon personally led Wang Yonghao and them up to the banquet hall of the House of Elon to take a seat.
The sound of beautiful music came from the ornate banquet hall full of carved beams and columns, and the elves were accompanying the banquet in the evening sun.
"Why is there no meat?"
Groyin, who hadn't eaten the mahogany smoked pork leg just now, shouted frantically with those lettuce leaves that belonged to his plate!
Maybe others don't look forward to the elf's food so much, so after Wang Yonghao's vague reminder, they all stuffed their stomachs full, only Ge Luoyin, he could only use the elf's light fruit wine to serve the leaves......
And not far from the dwarven table, on a slightly higher platform, there was an even more luxurious carved table, on which sat Elon and Gandalf, as well as Wang Yonghao and Elf Linde who accompanied him in the last seat.