Prologue to "Epilogue"

This is an epilogue to the story "Only Time Will Tell", which was never finished. That's why I am writing this prologue.

When "Only Time Will Tell" ended, we left Isis (aka Alasse) quite bewildered after a nice lesson with Lord Elrond (a la OFUM) in Rivendell, and Sasha (aka Almarea) with a bad knock on the head after a chance meeting with some nasty Black Riders. Not very far in, I'm afraid, so now I am going to give a summary of what was supposed to happen, had we finished the fanfic.

Sasha and Isis spend approximately ten years in Rivendell, training to become warrior-maidens. Actually, I'm wrong- they spend five years there, and the other five traveling all over Middle-Earth, studying the battle-tactics, one might say, of Rohan, Lothlorien, and Gondor. In Gondor, 26-year-old Sasha meets Faramir, who falls in love with her, though her heart remains in Mirkwood with Legolas. Isis, who is 25 and still in Rivendell, discovers to her horror that her love, Lord Glorfindel, is supposed to marry some Elf-maiden from Lothlorien, and gives up ever loving a man again, since her heart is now broken.

In T.A. 3018, Isis goes to Bree, there to meet a group of hobbits, and also a man named Strider, a Ranger like herself, since her training was mostly done by the Dunedain. When they return to Rivendell, the Council of Elrond is called, in which Almarea and Alasse, as they are now known, insist that they should accompany the Fellowship, and Elrond insists that they mustn't.

Well! Isis gets a wee bit pissed off about that, and in the end, despite Elrond's preference for a company of Nine, to match the Nine Riders, the two girls are accepted into the Fellowship. Everything continues as it did in the Red Book, until the breaking of the Fellowship. Almarea is unfortunately kidnapped, along with Merry and Pippin, by the Isengarders, and Alasse accompanies the Three Companions in their quest to rescue them.

In Rohan, Alasse and Almarea are reunited, much to their relief, and Alasse meets Eomer, who falls for her, and soon, she for him. The two girls fight bravely in the battle of Helm's deep, and when Aragorn decides to take the Paths of the Dead, Alasse goes with him—Almarea stays with the Rohirrim.

Oh, by the way, I hadn't mentioned this, and I don't know whether this is actually in the chapters we've already written, but the reason Isis and Sasha were taken to M-E is b/c of a prophecy made long before their birth, which said that they would help to destroy Sauron and his power—witness the chant that the Black Rider said before knocking Sasha out (Chapter 6, "The Master of Mordor"). So that's why Saruman told his Uruk-Hai to take Almarea (or Alasse, or both, preferably) along with the Halflings.

So everything goes as told in the Red Book, and when Aragorn and Arwen are married, Alasse finds out that Glorfindel has abandoned the Elf-maiden from Lorien, and so they get married and have a baby girl (Earasse), and take up residence in an area of land in Ithilien, not far from the Anduin. Almarea and Legolas also get married, and they start on their colony in the same area.

Then, three years later, disaster strikes. As it turns out, the ban placed on Morgoth an age or more before has expired, and another War begins, to conquer Morgoth and rid Middle-Earth of evil forever. Glorfindel and Legolas go off to war, leaving their wives and (in Glorfindel's case, daughter,) behind. While they are at war, Alasse has another baby, a boy this time, whom she names Goerfindel (which is something like a patronymic, in that it resembles the father's name, but has a different adjective; Glorfindel means "Locks of Gold", while "Goerfindel" means "Locks of Copper".

So this epilogue takes place after Glorfindel and Legolas come back from having helped to defeat Morgoth, and destroy him forever. Enjoy, and please review!

--Isis