THE BALLAD OF THE TEN RINGS
Where the Elders fail, the younger will prevail
Disney Hyperion
CAST OF CHARACTERS
SONS OF THE FELLOWSHIP
Henry Daniel Mills
Frodo Gamgee/Freddy Gaines
Eldarion of Gondor/Elliot "Eli" Thorn
Grace Hatter
Elanor Gamgee/Ellie Gaines
Elboron of Rohan/Evan Mirren
STORYBROOKE
Emma Swan
Mary Margaret Blanchard/Snow White
Regina Mills/The Evil Queen
Prince Charming/David Nolan
Eliza "Ruby" Scarlett/Little Red Riding Hood
Granny Scarlett
Dr. Archie Hopper/Jiminy Cricket
Belle
Prince Adam/Beast/Adam King
Mulan/Sammi Young
Princess Aurora/Annabelle King
Prince Philip/Philip Hale
Jefferson Hatter
FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
Frodo Baggins/Freddy Boggs
Samwise "Sam" Gamgee/Samuel Gaines
Aragorn of Gondor/Aaron Thorn
Pegerine "Pippin" Took/Peter Took
Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck/Murray Brandy
Legolas Greenleaf/Leonard Green
Gimli, Son of Gloin/Garrett Glowstone
Arwen Evenstar/Aria Thorn
Eowyn of Rohan/Ella Mirren
Faramir of Gondor/Farley Mirren
Rose "Rosie" Cotton Gamgee
DARK LORDS
Cora, Queen of Hearts
Sauron
Saruman the White/Solomon White
Killian Jones/Captain Hook
Jafar of Agrabah/Asif Malik
Ursula of The Deep/Waters
Nesserose of the East/Rose Eastman
Jadis the White Witch/Jade Snow
Lumi the Snow Queen/Greta Snow
Mother Gothel/Maggie Stone
Maleficent
The Blind Witch/Mrs. Ginger
THE ELDERS
Gandalf the Grey/Erik Grey
The Blue Fairy/Mother Superior
Aslan the Lion
Elphaba of the West
Glinda of the North
Tinker Bell
SUPPORTING HEROES
Geppetto/Marco
Pinocchio/August W. Booth
King Elrond Half-Elven
Grumpy/Leroy Clark
Doc/Dr. Adam Clark
Sleepy/Walter Clark
Sneezy/Tom Clark
Bashful/Edwin Clark
Happy/Harry Clark
Dopey/Danny Clark
Dorothy Gale
Nova/Sister Astrid
Peter Jones/Pan
ANTI-HEROES
Gollum/Sméagol/Baelfire/Benjamin Gold
Rumplestiltskin/Roger Gold
Bilbo Baggins/William Boggs III
King George/Albert Spencer
DECEASED CHARACTERS
Daniel Jones
King Leopold
Ruth
Sir Henry
Theodred of Rohan
Boromir of Gondor
Queen Eva
CHAPTER 1: IN THE LAND OF MORDOR WHERE THE SHADOWS LIE
Three rings for the Elven Kings under the Sky
Seven for the Dwarf Lords in their halls of stone
Nine for the Mortal men doomed to die
One for the Dark Lord on his Dark Throne
One Ring to Rule them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One ring for the Lion's Den hidden in stone
One ring for the cursed land bond to one man
One Ring hidden below deep below the ocean blue
One Ring for the False King
One Ring for the Child's Hand
In the Land of the Mordor where the Shadows lie
One Ring for the Dark Queen in her Dark land
One Ring for the mountains cold
One Ring for the doomed witch
One Ring for the conqueror bold
In the land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One boy to rule them all
One boy to find them
One boy to bring them all
And in the Darkness bind them.
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.
Gandalf
The year, in this world, when we left Middle-Earth was 1993. There were thirteen of us in the company; Myself Gandalf the Grey, the young king of Gondor, Aragorn son of Arathorn, his wife Arwen Evenstar daughter of Elrond, the Elven Prince Legolas Greenleaf, the Dwarf Gimli son of Gloin, the shield-maiden Eowyn daughter of Eomund, her husband Faramir steward of Gondor, and six hobbits, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Pegerine Took, Samwise Gamgee, his wife Rosie Cotton, the Ring's original finder Bilbo Baggins, and of course young Frodo Baggins who once wielded the Ring. Our reason for leaving Middle-Earth was to find the Ring's nine brothers. Oh, you thought it was just the One Ring didn't you? Well, it was not. There were ten Dark Rings, one for each of the great worlds. I told Frodo and the others of this right before we left Middle-Earth. You can imagine their reaction. It was a very long day and perhaps that was not my smartest decision, but that is entirely besides point. The year, as you would remember it, was two thousand and one. It was never meant to be an easy journey and I admit my friends toiled long and hard through the portal. At one point, we lost track of Pippin and Merry and they tumbled into a Sarlacc pit, and who should have to save them but of course, me. I will spare you the details, but I seriously doubt that if not for that one selfless act of bravery those fool Hobbits felt the need to force me to preform our journey may have lasted one month instead of two. We soon reached our destination, it was the world this very strange world that is known to most as Earth. The reason we chose your strange world, dear reader, is that it has stronger technology and weaker knowledge of magic than most other worlds. This would naturally mean that its Ring of Power falling into the wrong hands would be most disastrous. However it also inevitably means that finding and securing that particular ring would take a very long time because naturally we can expect no one to know where it is. You most likely have already come to the conclusion that we were forced to once again break the Fellowship of the Ring. Aragorn and Arwen traveled to the Land of Tibet where your world's highest mountain reigns. Faramir and Eowyn became soldiers of your army and traveled into the Deserts of Iran. Legolas and Gimli climbed aboard a great boat to your prosperous Land of China. Pippin and Merry traveled into the Jungles of Africa. Samwise brought Rosie across the Sea to the Land of England. The last pair, Frodo and Bilbo took up new identities and moved to the great City of New York City to seek the Ring. I traveled between. Well, most of our hero's lives were happy and prosperous as they could be living in a new and strange world, Frodo and Bilbo, living together for the first time in many years was not. Frodo was haunted continuously by dreams of the Ring, while Bilbo's greed for grew to rival that of the creature Gollum. Until one night, Bilbo went on a frightening rant and ran from his and Frodo's small, makeshift home never to be seen again for years. Frodo, meanwhile, found refuge from his misery in one thing and one thing alone, your world's music. Once a record or CD, as you so called them was turned on, all of Frodo's fear and anger would leave him and he would be peaceful, more peaceful than he had been in a long time for hours. And once he learned that these beautiful sounds could be played by human, or Hobbit hands, he set out to play them himself. In this music Frodo found a love greater than any safe that for his friends, one instrument in particular the guitar, Frodo fell very much in love with and in that alone he found solace from the Ring. Seven years later, the Fellowship was brought back together by three things. One was that I had one more motive, a personal one for choosing this world first and I finally found what I had been searching for. The second is that Faramir and Eowyn found proof that this world's Ring was in fact in Iran. The third was that four very special children were conceived. These children were destined to carry the Ten Rings into the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. The first was Eldarion, son of Aragorn and Arwen, heir to Gondor and Rivendell. The second was Elboron son of Faramir and Eowyn, heir to Rohan and a warrior destined. The third was Elanor, first of five children to Samwise and Rosie, destined to be a great Hobbit beauty. And the fourth, well in your world, Frodo found a love even greater than music, her name was Emma Swan.
Footnote: Please read and review. I first came up this back when there was only one season of OUAT. I would like to hear any ideas and criticisms. I will also have another more recently based Once fic that crosses over both with Game of Thrones and the equally awesome Wonderland spin-off. I already know that that one will have regular flashback arcs (One per chapter) Like Once Upon a Time but I am not sure about this one. I would like your opinion on that.