I am basing this story off the extended versions of the movies. I will be using dialog from the movies though I do not claim the words as mine. Lord of the Rings is not mine to claim. I made this for fun, not profit.
I AM LEAVING THIS CHAPTER AS IS CAUSE SOME PEOPLE LIKED IT SO IT STAYS.
Disclaimer: I own nothing related to the Lord of the Rings except for my character. I try to paraphrase character lines so that it doesn't seem like you're reading the movie but there will be points where it's said as it is written for 1 of three reasons. Either A, it's a good line and deserves to be left as is. B, it's blunt enough and can't really be said another way or C, it's too sophisticated to be changed into something else that might make it sounds stupid.
The world is changed.
I feel it in the Water.
I feel it in the Earth.
I smell it in the Air.
Much that 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 craftsman of the mountain halls.
And nine. Nine were given 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 lands of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master ring, to control all others.
And into this ring, he poured his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all life. One Ring to rule them all.
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.
Victory was near.
But the power of the Ring could not be undone.
It was in this moment, when all hope had faded, that Isildur, son of the King, took up his father's sword.
Sauron, the enemy of the free peoples of Middle Earth, was defeated.
The Ring passed to Isildur, who had this one chance to destroy evil forever. But the hearts of Men are easily corrupted. And the Ring of Power has a will of its own.
It betrayed Isildur…to his death.
And some things that should have not been forgotten were lost.
History became legend, legend became myth, and for 2 ½ thousand years, the Ring passed out of all knowledge. Until, when chance came, it ensnared a new bearer.
The Ring came to the creature Gollum, who took it deep into the tunnels of the Misty Mountains. And there is consumed him.
The Ring brought to Gollum unnatural long life. For 500 years it poisoned his mind. And in the gloom of Gollum's cave, it waited.
Darkness crept back in the forest of the world. Rumor grew of a shadow in the east, whispers of a nameless fear, and the Ring of Power perceived it's time had now come.
It abandoned Gollum.
But something happened then the Ring did not intend. It was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable.
A Hobbit: Bilbo Baggins of the Shire.
For the time will soon come when Hobbits will shape the fortunes of all.
But the deeds of the Hobbits would not be carried out alone.
Far off in a distant land, was another fate that would be intertwined with the Ring as well as the future of Middle Earth.