Hello there! This is the first time I'm posting on here, so have mercy on me. You will find that I'm not one of the fastest updaters. I'm a bit of a detail freak when it comes to stories. I keep checking things over until every single detail of the story is exactly the way I want it. A lot of my writing time goes into detail research. So if I don't update once every 3 hours, no panic! lol
Well then as for this story, it will cover a couple of events from the War of the Ring as well as several events preceding and following it. I will try to stick as close to the books as I can, tho at times I will merge events from both books and movies.
For now I have the Prologue ready for you. I hope you enjoy it and I hope it will leave you hungry for more. I would love to know what thoughts you have and what you think will happen as the story goes on. Feel free to review!
So for now this is where we part ways. Enjoy!
~ Lor
Prologue
It was another one of those nights, I couldn't sleep. Tossing my blanket to the side I sat on the side of my bed and put on the pants that lay at the foot of my bed. I grabbed my warm dark green hoody and pulled it over my head. Then I bundled my hair together in a sloppy bun and got up.
Making sure to step over the creaky floorboard in the middle of my room, I carefully opened my door and checked the hallway. Everything was pitch-dark, telling me that everyone was asleep. Turning back into my room I closed the door just as quietly as I had opened it and crossed the room to my window. I slid it open without making a sound and pulled up my hood before sticking my head out, making sure all was indeed dark and no one would see me.
I grabbed a hold of the thick branch I'd become so familiar with over the years. Pulling myself up on the branch I crossed it until I reached the tree trunk and made my way up a couple more branches until I reached my favorite spot and got comfortable. Leaning my head back against the trunk I gazed up at the sky above me, taking in the star spangled sky and white moon that shone brightly in the night.
It's been eighteen years since the day that Madam Alexis found me on the front steps of the orphanage. I was one year old, bundled in a white with silver lined cloth embroidered with a single golden flower placed in a basket weaved of white wood. I was left there all those years ago with nothing but that basket and a golden pendant on a matching golden chain engraved with a star, the moon and a red heart.
This tree has been my refuge for as long as I can remember. As a little kid I used sit beneath it and when I got older and learned to climb I would slip out through my window in the middle of night or whenever I wanted to be all by myself. I'd make myself comfortable amongst the branches and more often than not I would end up spending the entire night outside in this tree or falling asleep.
Strange as it seems, this tree always managed to comfort me more than the warmth of the orphanage ever could. And so it was that this night not unlike many others before I dosed off in the protective arms of the tree.