Yes, this is another one of those magically-transported-to-Middle-Earth original characters. And she is definitely a self insert. However, I don't think she's a Mary Sue. Why? 1) She is based on me. Realistically. Not perfected. I try to make her and all other characters behave as they realistically would.

2) She is not a relation of any canon characters. She is a human. Un-enhanced. Nor is there any romance planned.

3) There will be no odd coincidences. I used a system of coordinates and coin-flipping to find out where she will 'pop-up'. She will not be very close to major characters.

4) This is book-verse, not movie-verse. I'm a bit of a nerd on this stuff. Still, I haven't read it in a while, so feel free to correct me.

If you still don't like it, don't read it. I'm writing this for myself. If you still think she's too much of a Sue, I'm open to suggestions on how to make it more realistic.

Disclaimer: I did not invent Middle Earth. Tolkien did. So far I own only Kelsey and her family. Neither did I invent McDonalds or any other brands.

Chapter 1: Fog

Kelsey once again tried to concentrate on the book in her lap. This was difficult for a number of reasons. They were sitting in the car on a highway. The sunlight flickered over the pages as trees flashed past. Her mother had turned on the radio. Also, in the seat behind her, her little brother was talking to her, despite the fact that she was obviously trying to read. She ignored him.

The family was driving home from the summer vacation, and she longed to be alone for the first time in weeks.

'I'm hungry,' her brother piped up a few minutes later. 'Can we go to McDonalds?' 'Eat a sandwich,' Kelsey suggested. She didn't want to stop driving. And he couldn't have chosen something better than McDonalds?

'But I want something warm' He insisted. 'Alright, we'll stop at the next place,' their mother agreed.

By the time they had stopped, the weather had changed to a foggy drizzle. Kelsey took slid the book into her bag and took it along. She wanted to read while her brother ate his cheeseburger. She also retrieved her coat from the trunk.

She was still cold in her thin black jeans, so she quickly started walking towards the building, her family trailing behind.

The fog was thickening, and her glasses were soon covered with water droplets. She took them off and wiped them on her shirt. It did not help much; she had lost sight of the building.

Kelsey kept walking. She could still see the sidewalk of the parking lot for a few meters ahead, and she knew it led to the building.

All noises of the parking lot seemed stifled; it was probably deserted in this weather anyway.

Suddenly she stepped off the concrete and onto soggy grass. She must have angled slightly to the left, and walked off the sidewalk. The fog had thickened so much that she could not see the ground anymore. She took a step to the right to correct her mistake. Nothing. She was still standing on grass. Puzzled, Kelsey crouched down and felt the ground. Even further to her right, there was also only muddy earth and long wet grass. She took another sidestep just to make sure.

She decided the path much have taken a turn or ended. She walked back to the right and took a few steps to the direction she had come from. Still nothing.

Kelsey was very confused. She usually had a reliable sense of direction and geometry. This was ridiculous. She must have made some stupid, obvious, mistake.

She though the situation over again. Still, there was no reason for the sidewalk to not be there. She was lost.

Kelsey considered using her cell phone. If she even had her mother's number. She never used it. She imagined the conversation: 'Mom, I'm lost. I think I'm about a meter next to the parking lot. Could you please give me directions?' It was absurd.

She decided to wait until the fog lifted. Otherwise she would risk walking onto a road, or a field, or a ditch, or run into the fence of a pasture. Possibly an electric fence. That would really be stupid. But on the other hand, how long would it take for the fog to clear? She decided to wait five minutes, and then figure out which way to walk.

Within two minutes, she had used her camera to take pictures in all directions using different modes. It didn't show more than her eyes, and Kelsey was afraid of the moisture getting into the camera.

Luckily, after only 3 minutes she could about six metres. (A/N: that's about 20 feet, for the Americans)

And what she saw only confused her even more. The sidewalk was still absent, as far as she could see. All lights of cars and the building were also gone.

Impatient to wait longer, she tried to decide in which direction to walk. The sun brightened an area in the sky, it was early evening. So she knew where west was. The highway ran across Germany from the east to the west. And since she had not crossed it, she was south of it. Kelsey concluded that if she walked north, she would eventually come across the highway. And if that didn't work, because the world was not making sense, she would use her cell phone.

Sometime later, she had walked to the north for a while. There were still no signs of civilization. Her cell phone received no signal. She had developed a number of fanciful theories which could not possibly be true, but were nonetheless nice to imagine. She had developed exactly two theories which were actually possible.

One: This place without civilization must be a natural reserve or something. It must border on the highway, and due to several probably pretty obvious mistakes in her reasoning, she had somehow stumbled into it in the fog.

Two: This was the most realistic dream she had ever had. She had probably fallen asleep in the car, because she had stayed up pretty late last night reading 'The Return of the King'.

Either way, she had to find civilization. Kelsey resolved that the only thing she could do was keep walking north. Sooner or later she had to find something.

She's taking a bit long to get it. She's just a narrow-mindedly logic person. And she won't believe something so unlikely. Especially not something that good.

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