This is a Shadow of Mordor fanfic. I've watched the Gameplay on YouTube and really enjoyed it, even though it was sad. There was barely any Shadow of Mordor fanfics to enjoy, so I decided to write one as a LOTR fanfic.
I may be a little slow with this story because I have slowly follow along with the plot, but this is for fun. This is a canon within a canon. I only own my OC character. I wanted to explore that Talion had more than one child, a young daughter named Elanor, who might later play a part in LOTR. Like what if she was the only real survivor of the Black Gate (Talion doesn't count because he was just about to die if not for Celebrimbor), and what if her blood connection to Talion plays an important part in this adventure?
This is rated M for graphic violence and possible sexual content (mostly from flashbacks)
This is just the opening from the game for now. The story takes place in the year T.A. 3001, because the that's around the time the shadows of Mordor began to spread, Saruman joined Sauron, and Bilbo celebrated his 111th birthday. It's in the Appendixes B, so it makes sense that Shadow of Mordor took place at this time.
In the land of Mordor, where the Shadows lie...
It was here, on the slopes of Mount Doom, that the Dark Lord Sauron was defeated by a last alliance of Men and Elves.
It is here that for two thousand years, the Rangers of Gondor stood watch, guarding against a nameless threat they had all but forgotten. And while the strength of Gondor faded, the power and malice of Sauron grew in darkness.
He has returned to Mordor.
Shadow and flame have fallen on the Black Gate and no mortal man can stand in its path. None had survived.
Except one.
One of the least likely to have walked in the presence of evil and to have escaped. One, a child of the Dunedain, whose heart beat like a warm flame in the cold darkness. A star in the everlasting night...for when all hope was bleak to those who wander, tainted by the horrors of the Dark Lord's servants, her spirit would shine ever brighter.
For she was the first in her time to have witnessed seemingly impossible deeds...just as she may well be the last.
The daughter of a Ranger Captain, who's fate is yet to be known, she is the messenger of what will come.
May her spirit never break and her hope never fade.
This is really short, told by Galadriel (I think) or Lady Marwen, but I still have a lot of work to do for this as well as my other works. I hope this sparked your curiosity at least. The next chapter, I'm planning another opening, but more in Elanor's words, taking place in the future when she recalls all that happened in her childhood during the War of the Rings. This fanfic will be in Talion, Celebrimbor, and my OC's POV.
See you in a little while! Let me know what you think, and if you have any suggestions.