This is my first fanfiction so please be kind and bear with me. The white Marsh is what Gollum called the dead marsh in the second or third film and the story is set roughly 10 years after the return of the king. The only thing different from the story is that the elves never departed for the Grey Havens.

Disclaimer: I own nothing except the black lady and the kingdom of The White Marsh.

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Prologue - Edited

Pippin sat in his room in Rivendell smoking his pipe. He was, truth to be told, rather puzzled for it seemed to him rather odd that he had been called to a secret conference when the War of the Ring was well and truly over. He knew that the Aragorn was still putting down small rebellions of corsairs and orcs but that was trivial compared to what they had been through.

He found that his head hurt from thinking too much, but fortunately he was spared from further pain by the arrival of Legolas.

"Lord Elrond is waiting for us by the stone table, Pippin. Hurry up!"

He turned to leave the room.

"Wait! Legolas! You know what's going on don't you?"

Judging from the troubled look on Legolas's fair face he knew exactly what was going on but he did not answer Pippin and instead carried on down the passageway.

At the stone table sat most of the former fellowship of the ring. Frodo had been too ill to come and Sam too busy with his numerous amounts of children so instead there was Eomer, and Faramir, whom Pippin was very pleased to see as it had been a long time since their last meeting. Arwen sat to the left of Elrond, with a troubled look on her face, that mirrored her Father's expression.

Elrond nodded to Aragorn and Aragorn stood. Addressing them all he said,

"My friends. You have been brought here today because war is once more brewing. Sauron has revived and although the ring no longer exists he still poses a large threat to the freedom of middle earth. Inside Mordor he has re-bred his army of orcs to ten times the number they were before. We could perhaps repel his armies if it were not for the fact that this time we have no ring to destroy Sauron with. We will have to meet him head on."

A dead silence followed, before suddenly the whispers broke out like wild fire. Voices of outrage were everywhere.

"We are being told this now? It sounds like you have known for a long time."

Aragorn inclined his head towards the speaker. "We had our suspicions. But that was all they were, and we decided that it would be best to make sure before causing alarm."

At this point Gandalf rose from his seat and carried on from Aragorn, cutting off further protests.

"It will take deep magic to defeat Sauron's mind." He turned towards Elrond and inclined his head, "You know what I think."

"I will not call on her to win this battle! She is a traitor! A murderer! She's not even on our side!"

"She is our only hope"

Pippin and Merry exchanged confused glances.

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Thanks for reading. Please review. No flames but constructive criticism welcome. I will get better I promise but this part was needed.

Iceduchess