'What do they say? What do your stories of us say happened here?' Legolas asked, frantically, more frightened than she'd ever seen him. Cori shook her head.
'I don't know – this was never part of any of them,'
Cori is average. She has a fairly average life, average looks, average weight, average friends, goes for a few drinks at the pub after a week of work, and is content with her life of mediocrity. Someone else seems to have bigger plans for her, though.
Haunted by memories of fire, she finds herself in a place that can't possibly exist in reality – Middle-Earth. Taken in by Wood Elves, she is left questioning her sanity to the point of "just going with it". Until she finds out that sometimes, "just going with it" can lead to dramatic changes in the original stories of J.R.R. Tolkien – couples never married, children never born, meetings never made. And when these events change the stories, Middle-Earth's fate is changed.
Oh, and as if preserving canon isn't enough, there are things that were never featured in the original stories; dark things of pure evil, stirring in the shadows and casting fear and suspicion.
'Hiding in the hills and waiting this out was never an option. You must follow your heart and instincts, and be there to stop things, or force things to happen. If you do not, Middle-Earth will fall, and the Shadow may even reach your own home,' he told her. Cori shook her head.
'I can't do this,' she told him, 'I never wanted to be a hero. I just want to be normal.'
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