Author: Alyssa_Anime_Angel
Inspirationalists/co-authors/beta readers: Youko, Alex, Fox and Kael.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of J. R. R. Tolkein's work, especially not Lord of the Rings, nor any of the characters. However I do own the difference in personalities and names of the changes in characters.
Please don't sue!
Prologue: One Ring to Rule Them All… A sweet but manly voice spoke in soft passionate, enticing words…The world has changed,
I feel it in the water
I feel it in the earthI smell it in the air
Much that once was is lost
For none now live who remember it.It began with the forging of the great rings.
Three were given to the elves, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings.
Seven to the dwarf lords, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls.
And nine, nine rings were gifted to the race of men, who above all else, desire power.
For within these rings was bound the strength and will to govern each race.
But they were all of them, deceived, for another ring was made.
In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lady Sauronica forged in secret a Master Ring, to control all others and into this ring she poured her cruelty, her malice and her will to dominate all life.
Fire swirled around the metallic figure of the great Sauronica as she raised her hand to marvel at her creation. Clad in a metal armor that was impervious to almost all weapons, her blood red hair flowed over her body as she embraced the fire of her mountain as a swan embraces the river. A mask of horrific design could neither hide her soulless eyes or her twisted smile and she could almost taste her victory as the writing on the ring glowed red, the red of fire, the red of blood.
One Ring to Rule them All.
Houses were burnt to the ground by hordes of invading Aukes, who sought blood and destruction. To please their mistress, the hideous creatures pillaged, murdered and tortured the free peoples of Middle Earth.
One by one, the free lands of Middle Earth fell to the power of the Ring.
But there were some who resisted, a last alliance of men and elves marched against the armies of Mordor, and on the slopes of Mount Doom, they fought for the freedom of Middle Earth.
Thousands upon thousands of Elves and Man, clad in silver armor marched towards the mob of Aukes on the slopes of a raging, fire breathing mountain. They were led by the strongest of elves and men, and they went knowing that death was likely. One she-elf stood like a shining beacon of light as she ordered the armies to fire their arrows. Her name was Eldeen. The armies of the free-peoples fired and hundreds of Aukes fell under the onslaught.
Victory was near.
One man raised his sword in defiance, he was a great King among men and he stared down the towering figure of Sauronica as she came to destroy him.
But the power of the ring could not be undone.
Sauronica swung her sword and the sheer ferocity of the blow turned the very air into a weapon as men, elves and Aukes were blown away, straight into death. The Great King approached Sauronica but was also sent to his death by her blade. His daughter running to see his last breath.
It was in this moment when all hope had faded, that Isis; daughter of the King took up her father's sword.
Sauronica stood on the sword breaking it, but in a moment of grief, Isis's strength was doubled and she used the sharp cut of the broken sword to amputate the Ring and fingers from Sauronica. And in a flash of light the monstrous leader exploded into dust, leaving a shock wave that threw all the armies off their feet. The mask that had hidden the malevolent tyrant's face fell silently, isolated to the ground.
Sauronica, the enemy of the free people's of Middle Earth, was defeated.
Isis had succeeded in destroying the enemy and held the Ring of Power in her hand, clasping it as though it was her own.
The Ring passed to Isis, who had this one chance to destroy the Ring forever. But the hearts of men are easily corrupted and the Ring of Power has a will of it's own.
Isis kept the ring to herself, but with some show of wisdom never wore it around her finger. While being escorted by her soldiers, the party was attacked, and Isis was shot full of arrows. Her body was thrown into the river and the ring, detached from her, fell to the river floor.
It betrayed Isis to her death. And some things that should not have been forgotten, were lost. History became legend, legend became myth and for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge, until when chance came, it ensnared a new bearer.
A wide-eyed, simple creature happened to come across the ring and took it for her own, murmuring, "My Precious".
The Ring came to the creature Georgia, who took it deep into the tunnels of the Misty Mountains. And there it consumed her.
The creature lived in a dank cave, alone with the ring and she like others before her, believed it to be her own. She would sit alone for hours upon hours and simply caress the ring, "It came to me, my own, my love, my own, my precious."
The Ring brought to Georgia unnaturally long life, for five hundred years it poisoned her mind and in the gloom of Georgia's cave, it waited.
Darkness crept back into the forest of the world; whispers of a nameless fear, and the Ring of Power perceived its time had come.
It abandoned Georgia, but something happened then, the Ring did not intend, it was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable, a hobbit, Belinda Baggins of the Shire.
The short female hobbit bent down in the tunnels to pick up the intriguing item and she took it with her, running from the howls of a twisted creature, "Lost! My precious is lost."
For the time soon come when hobbits will shape the fortunes of all.
ALYSSA: Chapter 1: The Shire, And Please REVIEW!!! Want lots, and it doesn't take much time.