I've decided to take a brake from my number one obsession and work and a new one that popped up not three weeks ago when I watched the move and finished the book.

Pronunciation:

Lyell: Lie-el

Ryken: Rie-ken

Badall: Bad-all

Roseran: Rose-ron

Suksir: Sook-seer

Lars: Lars (exactly how it looks)

Adorn: A-dorn

Ken: Ken (you should know how to say Ken)

Salmas: Sal-mas

Tom: Tom (everyone knows Tom!)

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There and Back Again

'The Lord of the Rings is awesome!' exclaimed Ryken, his eyes as blue as the bright sky. 'I've never read anything like it!'

Lyell nodded as the bell for homeroom sounded. Quickly all the loitering students pushed and shoved, trying to get to their classrooms on time. 'Yeah, happy I forced you to read them even though you were falling asleep sometimes?'

Ryken rolled his eyes. 'You don't need to rub it in.'

'Yeah, well, I gatta go,' she said sneaking him a kiss. 'See you in lunch.'

'Sure, see you!' he called after her as she joined the mass of kids going down the hall.

'Hurry up! Hurry up!' she hissed as she passed a girl grabbing some last minute things from her locker and slamming it shut again to join the mass going in the other direction.

'Hey!' Lyell exclaimed as she rushed from the tiled hallway to the blue carpeted classroom.

'Wow!' said Lars, Lyell's very close friend and Legolas-lover buddy. 'You're here before the bell!'

The blonde hired girl smiled as she walked further into the classroom. 'Joy to the world that I'm on time!' she sang.

'Would you, um, stop now?' asked Lars.

Lyell scratched the back of her head as she smiled rather embarrassed. She smiled to he teacher, Mr. D as she passed him and sat down in the desk beside her friend. 'Guess what!'

'What?' she replied. 'Now where's my thousand dollars?'

Lyell heaved a sigh, lying back in the cushioned chair. 'I'm broke. Anyway, I've got…' She started to count on her fingers. 'Forty-three, no forty-four pictures of Legolas on my computer now.'

Lars' big green eyes went wide. 'You gatta give me 'em!'

She waved her hand. 'Sure, sure.'

'You better.'

'I will! Oh! By the way, Ryken wanted everyone after school to play a game of football.'

'Yeah, sure. Count me in.'

'Cool! See you then.'

Over the loud speakers a student spoke: 'Please say the pledge of allegiance.'

Lyell rolled her eyes and reluctantly stood, not wanting to leave the comfort of the cousins. 'I pledge allegiance to the flag…'

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'Great!' shouted Ryken, looking at everyone who stood on the cracked and rarely used street of Alton. 'We're all here!'

'Get out of the street!' yelled an old and wrinkly woman from the window of a neighboring apartment.

'We'll be fine, Mrs. Northup!' called back Ryken.

The old woman scowled and slammed the shutters closed making some of the chipping white paint flake off.

'Let's get on with the game!' shouted Tom. 'I wanna play some serious football!'

Ryken turned to the cousins Adorn and Ken. 'You got the ball?' he asked.

With grins that slipped through their seriousness and a giggle from Ken, Adorn handed over the football.

Lyell eyed them suspiciously. Whenever those two tried not to laugh, something was up.

With a sigh Badall crossed his arms and looked at everyone. 'Could we just play?'

Suksir nodded in agreement. 'I'm only here to play, though I could probably beat you all by myself.'

Lars glared at the black haired boy. Nobody really liked Suksir but he made the teams even.

'Shut up, Suksir,' Roseran growled.

'Can we play, now?' asked Salmas.

Ryken nodded and threw the ball straight up into the air and blinded everyone as it sored into the sun. 'First one to catch it is the left side's captain!'

The ball came flying down and everybody missed it as it came with a crash upon the blacktop. There was a flash of light as the ball ignited sending everyone flying back.

Both Ken and Adorn started laughing in hysterics. 'Wow!' exclaimed Adorn, slapping Ken on the back. 'That worked better than I thought!'

Ken nodded. 'Yeah! That one knocked us right over! Did you see their faces?'

Lyell stood and glared at Lars' cousins. 'You two are just like Merry and Pippin.'

'They are our heroes!' shouted Adorn and they both fell once again into a fit of laughter.

'Our-our idols!' laughed Ken, holding the stitch in his side.

'Damn it!' yelled Ryken as he, too, stood. 'That was my allowance!'

'Now we can't play,' commented Salmas, rubbing the back of his head.

'Isn't that obvious?' retorted Suksir.

Lars heaved a sigh as she picked up the remantce of the once football and headed for the closest trashcan. As she threw it in she spotted a glitter of gold that reflected the sunlight in a crack by the gutter. 'Hey,' she said as she picked it up. 'What's this?'

'Looks like a ring,' said Lyell as she walked up and looked at it. 'Maybe it's made of gold?'

'Then we could sell it and get a load of cash!' Lars turned to Lyell's boyfriend with a smile. 'Hey, Ryken! Could get you a new football then, huh?'

'Looks like a wedding band,' said Roseran who had a strange interest in jewelry.

Suksir's eyes went wide as he looked at Lars' finding. 'That…ring…I must have…that ring!" He ran for the darker haired girl and as soon as his fingers touched her treasure it fired up and glowed flame words with a likeness of Arabic.

'This…this,' Lars stammered. 'Is Elvish!'

The flame grew and Lars yanked the ring from Suksir's itching palm. The light blazed up and blinded them. Then all went black.

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I know it's a typical Lord of the Rings fan fic but it gets interesting…I promise!

-Aredhen-