Disclaimer Ok, now to get this over with. Anything that you recognize does not belong to me. In fact, if every million years a bird flew by a beach and picked up a single grain of sand, after a hundred-million years I still wouldn't own, Legolas or Lucius Malfoy. (Lucius Malfoy has nothing to do with this story, I just think that he's sexy, but you get my point.)

A/N Thoughts are shown like this: "Text"

Regular speaking and narration: "Text"

Dream Sequence: "Text"

Jess Barlow walked home from school at an extremely sedate pace. She was an average prettyish girl, not one to really stand out in a crowd. She was around 5"6', with blonde hair to her mid-back, and green eyes. One good thing about living in an extremely small town, walking everywhere is an extremely useful way of staying in decent shape. She couldn't really say that she was built or anything, more like the old version of feminine, all curves and softness. She was satisfied with the way she looked and that was all that really mattered after all.

"Man that's corny! I really got to stop doing these dialogue things in my head, no more fanfiction for me." Jess looked around and it was only when she noticed that the other people who took the shortcut thru the park that was next to her house were looking at her oddly, that she realized that she was talking to herself.

"Dang, now they're really going to think that I'm crazy." Jess blushed and quickly jogged up the steps and entered her house.After saying hello to her mother, sister, and Marly, the family's German Shepherd, she headed to her room. Arriving she dropped her school stuff and pulled out her trig. homework. Luckily this weeks lessons were fairly easy so she didn't waste much time doing that chore.

"Thank God that's over! Now I can get to the good stuff." Muttering to herself Jess plopped herself down at her computer and pulled up her favorite fanfiction site, and her itunes playlist. She quickly clicked her way to the stories about that most wonderful trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. Now she wouldn't call herself obsessed but she was extremely fond of the story. She knew a majority of the details, but preferred the movies to the books, she thought them a bit dry, and even spoke a little elvish, only a few horribly accent-butchered words that she had managed to pick up here and there.

"Hmm, what shall I read today, I'm in a Legolas-ish mood so I'll look through there." She loved to read fanfiction, or just about any fantasy book really. There was something so alluring about escaping everyday life to go on some epic adventure. She especially liked the ones that contained romance, although she didn't really care for canon all that much, but that really depended on the story and the characters. After finding a promising looking story, Jess got herself comfortable and began to read.

A Few Hours Later

"Jessie, honey, come on it's time for dinner." Jess jumped as her mother called her to dinner.

"Man, I was really into that one, I can believe that it's dinner time already." Jess turned off her screen and headed toward the kitchen to fix her plate.

As she sat down her sister, Jill, was telling her parents about her day, which had been apparently overstuffed with 5th grade drama, based on how loud she was speaking. Not really listening, she sat down and stared to daydream about her own fabulous Middle Earth adventure.

"Oh, who am I kidding, even if stuff like that did happen, why would it happen to me. I mean I'm not exactly Mary-Sue material, I'm average looking, with a above decent home life. Seriously that worst thing going on is that I'm perpetually single, never even had my first kiss, and everyone thinks that I'm a bit of a dweeb. So I probably shouldn't hold my breath for my handsome elf in shiny armor to appear." Jess hardly noticed when she finished eating, washed her dishes, took a bath, and settled down for bed, she was too involved in her daydream.

That night her dreams were strange, not in any way that she could pinpoint, nor would she remember them until much later.

She was standing in the middle of a field filled with tiny white flowers. There was a strange music in the air that sounded like many people singing in perfect harmony. Her renaissance style dress and hair, moved around her in the breeze. The sound of a throat being cleared behind her made her turn around. A few steps back stood a strange looking elderly man, no one that she recognized, but in who she felt she could trust. The man looked up at her and said, "The time is upon you my dear, Your destiny will now begin to truly unfold, let me show you what is in store. Suddenly there was a bright flash of light and images and Jess knew no more.

The sound of her alarm clock woke her the next morning. Reaching a hand up to wipe her eyes she was startled to discover that she had been crying in her sleep. In fact now that she thought about it there was an ache deep in her chest that felt like her heart had been ripped out, severely beaten, turned into a slinky, and then thrown away. Seeing no good reason that she should feel that way, she decided not to let it bother her and set about getting ready for the upcoming day.

Before leaving the house she made sure to kiss her parents, and grab her all-in-one Lord of the Rings book to keep her from boredom throughout the day. Being as she had an early tutoring session in Anatomy this morning she wasn't all too worried about the thick mist swirling about the park as she walked through on the way to school.

"If I hurry , I can still get in my morning swim, before heading to Mr. Swansins room. Man, why did I take all of these elective my senior year?" Finally arriving at the school, Jess tossed her stuff beside the pool, and changed into her bathing suit. After swimming a few laps around the pool she reached for her waterproof purse and pulled out her beloved book.

Suddenly she felt a wierd swirling sensation in the water. Jess looked down and nearly screamed, below her there was a huge whirlpool and it was sucking her down, waterproof purse, book, and all.

"Oh my God! What the hell is going on! I was in the fucking shallow end for God's sake!" Jess looked around and saw that she was in a strange watery vertex and that there was a bright light up ahead, accompanied by cheery birdsong. Abruptly she was tossed out and landed hard on a fresh patch of grass. Before fainting she managed to see giant trees surrounded by bright sunlight.

"Fuck, I had to die a virgin!"

Ok guys, the first chapters out. I'll try to write more as fast as possible but you know how it is. Of course you could try bribing me with good reviews. I'll take flames too, but try not to toast me too much, I burn easily. Anyways as a side note, I like a lot of build-up so this story will reflect that, meaning that it will be quite a few chapters (depending on how it works out in my head) before I even get to story of the ring, sorry if that bothers, but It's my cookie.