While Zhao Lihe and others were busy working on fixing the portal, Lin Zhongtian was also enjoying his performance in the world of The Lord of the Rings.
As Geralt, he followed Gandalf to the White Council, where he met the white wizard Saruman, the elf lord Elderron who founded Rivendell, and Galadriel, the lord's wife of Lothlórien.
The three were very surprised at Lin Zhongtian's appearance, but with Gandalf's strong guarantee, they still accepted Lin Zhongtian's existence.
Finally, under the strong suggestion of Gandalf and Lin Zhongtian, the White Council decided to attack Dol Guldur. Lin Zhongtian pretended to participate in it, and together with Gandalf and other members of the White Council, they repelled Sauron, who was disguised as a necromancer.
Afterwards, the members of the White Society left one after another and began to act on their own.
Gandalf borrowed a fast horse and planned to go to Lonely Mountain to warn his friends.
Lin Zhongtian said that he would go north to pursue the escaped dark power, but in fact, he took off the disguise of the witcher Geralt and quietly arrived at the Lonely Mountain before Gandalf.
After arriving at the Lonely Mountain, a beautiful thrush landed on his shoulder and told him the story of Legolas' adventures in a sweet voice.
After defeating the pursuing Orc army, Legolas and Bilbo's crew bypassed the Woodland Kingdom and successfully arrived at Lake Town.
Because Thorin fell into his ancestral dragon disease (a fanatical greed for treasure) in the Lonely Mountain in the original book, Legolas did not trust the promise Thorin made in Mirkwood, so he quietly left Bilbo and the dwarves and went to the Lonely Mountain Erebor alone, ready to slay the dragon alone and retrieve the white diamond necklace of the Elf King Thranduil.
The dwarves who stayed in Lake Town had to steal food because they lost Legolas, their wallet, but they were discovered by the humans in the town.
In desperation, Thorin could only reveal his identity, claiming that he was a descendant of the King under the Mountain, and declared that he came back to retake the Lonely Mountain. If the townspeople of Long Lake Town were willing to help them, then when the Lonely Mountain was retaken, he would share the treasure of the Lonely Mountain with Long Lake Town.
As soon as these words were spoken, Thorin, Bilbo and his companions were warmly welcomed by the townspeople.
They held a celebration banquet for Thorin and his men, gave them a large amount of supplies and weapons, and saw them off as they left Changhu Town.
At the same time, Legolas entered Erebor alone through the main gate and bravely fought the dragon Smaug head-on.
But Smaug was the most powerful dragon in the Third Age after all. Even in the narrow space of Erebor Palace, Smaug still showed a strong and flexible figure. His hard and thick golden-red dragon scales could not be completely penetrated even by Legolas' ice arrows.
Seeing that he was losing the battle, Legolas had no choice but to take the risk and deliberately resist Smaug's tail whip. He relied on the powerful defense of the blue-patterned silver armor to make Smaug think that he had suffered a serious injury, and in his pride he revealed his weakness - the place where the dragon scales fell off on his left chest.
Just when Legolas was about to succeed, Bilbo and the dwarves entered Erebor through a secret passage.
The sudden appearance of a large number of strange smells attracted Smaug's attention. He was worried that his treasure would be stolen by thieves, so he gave up Legolas and flew in the direction where the smell came from.
Legolas was very angry, but as things had come to this point, there was nothing he could do but to search for the white diamond necklace in the vast ocean of treasure.
Later, Smaug discovered Bilbo and the dwarves, and angrily breathed dragon fire at them, but Bilbo and the dwarves kept dodging with their small and agile bodies and the narrow secret passages.
Even if dragon flame sprayed into the secret passage, it would flow towards the ventilation vents and would not be able to hurt them at all.
After a long struggle, Smaug became enraged. He thought these annoying thieves were thieves sent by Lake Town, so he flew out of Lonely Mountain in anger, ready to go to Lake Town and destroy it.
During this time, Legolas finally found the white diamond necklace, put it on his body, staggered away from Lonely Mountain, and planned to go to Lake Town to slay the dragon.
On the way, he met Bilbo, Thorin and others. The former was surprised that Legolas survived the dragon's mouth, but the latter led the dwarves to draw their swords and stated in a tough attitude that all the treasures in the Lonely Mountain belonged to him, the descendant of the King Under the Mountain. Legolas had no right to take them away. If he wanted to leave the Lonely Mountain, he had to accept the dwarves' body search and leave behind all the treasures stolen from the Lonely Mountain.
Legolas repeated Thorin's promise in Mirkwood, but Thorin refused to fulfill it, saying that the other party had abandoned him.
Legolas angrily said that he left quietly because he knew Thorin would go back on his word, but Thorin said that he left the team first, so he went back on his word.
The two sides couldn't reach an agreement, so they started fighting.
But the dwarves who had just fought with Smaug were no match for Legolas who had the bonus of the artifact. If Bilbo had not stepped forward to dissuade them in time, Thorin and the dwarves would probably have died under the angry Legolas' arrows.
After leaving the Lonely Mountain, Legolas dragged his exhausted body to Lake-town, and finally with the help of Bard, the son of Girion, the former lord of Dale, he successfully shot an ice arrow into Smaug's chest. But at the same time, he himself was seriously injured. His armor was shattered under Smaug's claws, and his whole body was burned by the scorching dragon flames. He has been unconscious ever since.
Bard, who luckily survived, took Legolas home and asked his son Bain to take care of the great dragon slayer. He himself took on the responsibility of leadership in place of the escaped mayor, resettled the refugees whose homes were destroyed, and then led the remaining soldiers and civilians of Long Lake Town to Lonely Mountain.
Before slaying the dragon, Legolas had promised to compensate Lake Town with one-fifteenth of his share of the treasure of Lonely Mountain.
Bard and the human army went there to demand this huge compensation from Thorin and the dwarves.
In order to better achieve his goal, Bard also sent a messenger to Thranduil, the Elf King of the Woodland Kingdom, telling him that Legolas had retrieved the white diamond necklace, and at the same time asked Thranduil for help in the name of the temporary mayor of Lake Town.
Looking at the messenger riding a fast horse towards the Mirkwood, Lin Zhongtian suddenly thought of a question, that is, will the Elf King Thranduil of this world personally lead his troops to participate in the Battle of Five Armies?
Faced with Lin Zhongtian's doubts, the thrush said regretfully that he was afraid that would not happen.
The Battle of Five Armies is a classic battle in The Hobbit. The five armies are the Dwarf army of the Lonely Mountain and the Iron Hills, the Silvan Elves army of the Woodland Kingdom, the Human army of Lake Town, the Orc army of the Misty Mountains and the Wolf army of Gumbaldor.
Among these five armies, the most powerful is naturally the 3,000 elven spearmen and archers led by the Elf King Thranduil.
These elves once participated in the Battle of the Last Alliance at the end of the Second Age, and suffered heavy casualties in the war with the Dark Nomanul and Mordor. Oropher, the father of the current Elf King Thranduil, also died in this battle. When the remaining elves returned to their homeland, not even a single Orc army dared to stop this elven army immersed in endless sorrow.
In the original book, Thranduil led his army to participate in the Battle of Five Armies because of the white diamond necklace.
But in this world, the white diamond necklace has been taken away by Legolas, and Thranduil thinks he has lost everything because of the death of his wife and son. The Woodland Kingdom and the elven people under his rule have become everything for the rest of his life.
Under such circumstances, Thranduil naturally did not want to lose even one more elf.
"So the Battle of Five Armies is going to become the Battle of Four Armies?"
Lin Zhongtian raised his eyebrows, looked at the thrush on his shoulder and said teasingly: "Aren't you going to take care of it?"
The thrush shook his head. Even He would not force Thranduil to join the battle under such circumstances, because it was not in line with His aesthetic sense.
Lin Zhongtian thought for a moment, then said thoughtfully, "But Thranduil's elven army is the absolute main force in the Battle of Five Armies. Without the main force, how do you plan to help the dwarves and humans win?"
There was a human smile in the eyes of the thrush.
Lin Zhongtian was surprised and asked, "You don't want me to take action, do you?"
The thrush shook its petite head, turned its head and looked in the direction of Changhu Town, and said in a pleasant voice: "The test is over. Don't you plan to let your new members see the power of the Traveler Alliance?"
"He'll see it sooner or later."
"That's not what I meant." Thrush shook his head and chuckled, "The members of your alliance should have their own forces. How about letting them fill the gaps in the elven army?"
"The elf who is about to become a time traveler summoned an army from another world. This story sounds quite interesting..."
"Did I hear you correctly?" Lin Zhongtian asked in surprise, "You plan to let my alliance members interfere with your music?"
"You heard me right, my friend." The thrush smiled and said seriously, "Help me finish this story, and I will give your alliance of travelers the freedom to participate in the music, and even allow them to establish a presence in Middle-earth. How about that?"
"Besides, after watching the show for so long, don't you really want this story to end perfectly?"
Lin Zhongtian frowned and said, "What about your Ainu Grand Movement? Aren't you afraid that it will be disrupted by my alliance members?"
The thrush laughed and said meaningfully: "Don't underestimate yourself, my friend. After all, the Ainu are just my creations. How can the music they play compare to the song you sing..."
Does that mean the music will be more beautiful with his and the Time Travelers' Alliance's interference?
are you sure?
Just those guys in the league?
No matter how you think about it, they can only make the style of Middle-earth even more broken!
Lin Zhongtian thought for a moment and quickly nodded, "Okay, as long as you don't mind, I have no problem with that. However, my alliance members are not your creations, so you cannot impose the power of modifying fate on them."
"Okay, this is our agreement."
The thrush agreed without hesitation, but then he smiled and said, "In this case, I have to add a condition."
Lin Zhongtian asked: "What are the conditions?"
The thrush smiled but said nothing.
Lin Zhongtian raised his eyebrows and was about to speak when he suddenly realized that his strength was suppressed.
He frowned, raised his hand and waved it, and endless golden lightning poured out from his palm continuously. At first, it was as thick as a bucket of golden thunder, but after leaving the body surface for twenty or thirty centimeters, it turned into dense lightning as thin as hair.
Both its power and range have been greatly weakened.
Seeing this scene, Lin Zhongtian couldn't help but look surprised.
"What's this?"
"The Great Barrier of Ilúvatar." The thrush said softly, "From now on, Middle-earth will be protected by the barrier. Any otherworldly power will be restricted by the barrier, including the members of your alliance and those hot weapons that disrupt the balance of war."
Lin Zhongtian was surprised and asked: "Will hot weapons also be weakened?"
The thrush chuckled and said, "Of course. Although life and death are just two states of life to me, the elves and humans in this world are my children and creations after all. You don't think that as a parent, you would allow your children to be bullied by outsiders without any resistance, right?"
“…”
Lin Zhongtian raised his eyebrows and suddenly threw a punch.
"boom!"
The air exploded instantly, and the rolling air waves turned into a strong wind that rushed in all directions.
Feeling the oncoming shock wave, Lin Zhongtian showed a smile on his face.
Very good, the weakening of the physical body is very small, so there shouldn’t be any big problems!
…
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In Lake Town, thick black smoke was rising from the ruins destroyed by the evil dragon Smaug.
The townspeople, including the elderly, the weak, women and children, gathered in the corners that were not destroyed, caring for the wounded affected by the dragon's flames and the collapsed houses.
In the house that was temporarily used as a place to accommodate the wounded, a brown-haired boy in hunting clothes sat on a chair, carefully wiping the alloy composite bow in front of him with a cloth that had been washed until it turned white. Occasionally, he would look up at the handsome elf who was sick and unconscious, his eyes full of admiration and worship.
It was this brave elf who slayed the evil dragon that was wreaking havoc in Changhu Town in front of him.
And the weapon he used was the peculiarly shaped bow in the young man's hand!
"Dragon Slayer, what a prestigious title!"
"I don't know if I can become a hero like you in the future..."
The young man was wiping the compound bow in his hand while talking to himself while talking to the unconscious Legolas.
"Can I come in, please?"
A polite voice came from the already opened door.
The young man was slightly startled, and quickly grabbed the divine bow, looking vigilantly at the human who suddenly appeared at the door.
The man was wearing silver armor and had a handsome face. It was obvious that he was not a native of Changhu Town.
"Who are you?"
The young man asked with a vigilant look on his face, his right hand on the bowstring.
"Don't be nervous, kid." Lin Zhongtian smiled, walked into the room, looked at the unconscious elf and said softly, "I am his friend."
"Friend?" The boy looked surprised, "But you are human!"
"What's wrong with humans? Can't humans be friends with elves? Isn't your father also his friend?"
"That's because they slayed a dragon together!"
The boy puffed out his chest, a hint of pride in his tone.