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Out and back again



Once time, about ten years ago, I lived in Ered Luin. And only so you know it, with I, I mean Baldio Fur-Shortfellow. But I lived in Ered Luin, with my father, mother and brother. They are all dead now. My father and I had talked about go out at a hunt in The Shire. I had never been there, and he said we could visit my half-uncle, Romad Shortfellow. So he gets his bow, and we was on our way. After the first day, we camed to Needlehole. Their we rested for the night. He cooked food to us, and I gathered fresh water. We eated everything, for we travelled with only breakfast. Then we beginned to sleep. The next morning my father waked me. We travelled before sun-rise! Then, about midday we get to Green-fields. My father shooted a bear in the neck! We eated the meat, and then I was practicing. I wasn't good. But then, an arrow rushed trough the air, and striked my father in his neck! I jumped behind a tree, and saw six goblins, and an orc. They said something, I couldn't understand that. Then the orc shouted! A troll come from west! It was near mid-night. The troll saw me, and runed over to me! I casted my knife, and it striked in the arm of the troll! I runned so hurry I could. Near six hours! I didn't seen anything! Then, the light camed. I fainted dead away. When I camed to myself, I saw the troll! It was maded of stone! I couldn't trust that! The sun-rise had saved my life! Then, my half-uncle finded me. And after a day, he finded my father. He getted me home, and there my mother and brother was killed by goblins! Now, a minstrel of the elves adopted me, and he preacticed me in the use of song and lute.