A/N : This is my first Lord of the Rings fic, so please be gentle on me. I have really enjoyed writing this, so please review and let me know what you think. All reviews are welcome good and bad. They all help the story get better and encourage the writer . Enjoy.

Chapter One

Moondance was so glad to be finally finished at University. The 3 year course seemed to have dragged on and on, I mean she loved being there with her friends and going out having a good time, but she was so ready for a break. To celebrate their new found freedom they were going to the local nature reserve camping for a week and to have a chill out. She was going with her best friend Kathy, Kathy's boyfriend Bryan and his friend Richard. Kathy and Bryan had been trying to fix her and Richard up for as long as she could remember, but they never seemed to get the hint that she wasn't interested. Bless them. Not everyone can be as happy as they are, talk about love at first sight, now they were inseparable.

The reserve was only a couple of hours away and the car journey for them was all part of the trip. They sang to the music, told jokes, and generally caused mayhem whilst having a laugh. She loved all of her friends dearly, they had all know each other for ever and she couldn't imagine life without them.

After arriving at the campsite and getting checked in they went to their pitch and started putting the tents up and getting everything ready for their weeks stay. After everything was unloaded and set up they were all starting to get hungry for proper food. Sure they had all binged out on junk food on the way but now they needed something of substance.

While the others were getting dinner ready Moondance went for a walk to try and get rid of her headache. She had managed to hide it from her friends well, they always worried too much when she got one of her headaches. At least there not as bad as they used to be, or is she just getting used to them. Either way they worry too much. She was fine.

She had been walking through the woods for half and hour and her head felt somewhat better, not quite back to normal but close. She started to feel droplets of rain, turning her face up to the rain she relished the feeling of the cold droplets landing on her face, it felt brilliantly refreshing. After standing like that for a few minutes they started the getting bigger and more of them. Giving a sigh of resignation she started to make her way back to camp.

The further she walked the heavier the rain got. After she had been walking for about 10 minutes she was soaked to the skin and could only see a few meters in front of her. She would never make it back to camp in this, if she tried to carry on she could end up walking in the wrong direction and going even further away. Just on the edges of her vision she could see a small outcrop in some rocks, that would give her enough shelter from the wind and rain until the storm blew over and she could make it back to camp.

The little nook was big enough for her to lie down and be out of the elements. It was a good job it wasn't Kathy in her place, she hated the dark and thunder storms, luckily she didn't mind it. She had grown up in the country side and was used to them.

She lost track of how long she had laid there for, it seemed like forever and the storm wasn't going anywhere. Maybe if she just rested her eyes for a little bit, when she opened them the storm would have blown over.

She opened her eyes with a start, immediately noticing something was wrong. For one thing it was daylight, had she really slept for that long? Two, she was no longer in her little outcrop in the rocks, for that matter she couldn't even see any rocks near by. And three she was no longer in the nature reserve, the trees she was looking at were ridiculously tall and like nothing she had seen before. Where was she?

Her head was back which made things worse, she hadn't had one this bad in a long time. As she sat up she felt something brush against her back, she went into a mad panic like a switch being flipped. She franticly grabbed at her back to get off what ever was there, but all she could find was long hair, where had all this hair come from? She had shoulder length hair, this couldn't be hers. Giving it a gentle tug she came to the conclusion it was hers as she felt it pull on her scalp. Ok that was weird.

As she leant forward to try and ease some of her headache her 'new hair' fell forward over her face, that would get very annoying. She pulled it behind her ears, but after her handed brushed her ears she froze. When her hand had touched her ears she felt a jolt of something rush through her body. What the hell was that, since when did her ears get sensitive? Lifting her hand again she traced the outside of her ear and she felt the same jolt. Why was this happening, they weren't any diff…….Hang on, since when had her ears been pointed? Why the hell did she have pointed ears? Could this day get any weirder?

Slowly she staggered to her feet. After getting upright she wobbled some what precariously. Grabbing the tree nearest to her to try and steady herself. She had never felt dizzy or wobbly from her headaches before. The slight sound of leaves rustling brought her attention to her surroundings, someone was here with her. Franticly looking round she couldn't see anything. But she failed to look up in the trees, if she had she would have see 20 archers with their bows trained on her.

She let go of the tree to see if she would stay up on her own, with a little wobble she managed to stay upright. She was still looking round for the person who had made that noise, but she couldn't see anything other than trees. That's when she heard a gentle thud behind her. She didn't want to turn round but part of her was trying to reason that you were batter off facing who ever it was behind you than showing them your back.

Ever so slowly she turned round and immediately her heart stopped, she couldn't move, frozen to the spot. There were 5 men pointing bow and arrows at her, several aiming for her chest the others aiming for her head. This was not good. They were all tall – not that she was a shrimp – They had long blond hair and…….hang on a minute they had pointed ears as well. What the hell was going on? If her mates were playing a trick on her she would be really hacked off.

Just as she was going through her lack of options another man……..thing walked in front of the others. He was like all the others except he held his head high looking at her like she was a piece of dirt on his shoe. But the one thing that did get to her was his eyes, they were the purest blue she have ever seen. But apart from that he seemed ridiculously arrogant and harsh, and that was just from the way he held himself. He hadn't even said anything yet.

As he spoke, his voice and the words were like music to her ears, his voice was slightly harsh and she couldn't understand what he was saying but it just sounded so beautiful. Her head fell slightly to one side trying to figure what he was trying to say from his body language but she was getting nothing. He had obviously noticed her incapacity to understand his language. But the next words he said she understood fully, she could even feel her face light up at being able to understand him.

"Why are you here? What business have you here?" His voice was stern and certainly brooked no arguments. He certainly sounded like he was used to ordering people round, she guessed he was the leader of the pointy eared people.

"I….I….I don't know, I was hear with my friends, or at least I was somewhere. Where am I?" she thought she had left her stuttering in the past, let's just put it down to shock and a little bit of fear. Ok she would admit it she was a bit scared. I mean who wouldn't be?

"You are in Lothlórien. The realm of Lord Celeborn and of Galadriel Lady of light." He seemed so proud saying those words and they also seemed to flow off his tongue without thinking about it. How often did he say that?

"No no no no, hang on a minute, I'm meant to be in the Blue Ridge National Park. I don't know how I got hear but take me back. Now!" That last shout did it, her head was throbbing so bad she though she would die. she had never felt pain that bad before. She just wanted to go home. That was the last thought going through her head as darkness consumed her and she passed out.