I'm so thrilled, Linda, that you enjoyed this as it was a huge amount of work! I'm not a natural writer by any means and these chapters only come together after a very long slog so your comments, and those of everyone who reviews, mean a great deal to me.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks the friendship between Legolas and Aragorn only developed during the Ring War. I take the view that if the Mirkwood Elves had lost touch with their cousins in Lothlorien, as Legolas tells us, then they were very unlikely to have had much to do with those in Imladris. Also the only men they seem to have had anything to do with were those in Laketown and Dale, not the Dunedain.