A/N: Hello readers. Please forgive me for stomping all over Tolkien's masterpiece, but I just had this idea and after reading a few of the other crossovers that were, honestly, of rather poor quality, I decided to make my own bad crossover. Now, I'm gonna be honest, these will be based mostly off the movies. I tried to read the trilogy once. I must say that they are much dryer than the hobbit. I gave up halfway through Two Towers. But since they parts I read seemed to have been fairly well adapted to the screen, I don't feel bad about basing it on the movies.
Well, here we go.
Oh wait, disclaimers.
*Ahem* I own Twilight Princess and Lord of the Rings. I bout the game when I got a Wii and the Trilogy in a box set. I sure as hell don't own the copyrights though.
About about three thousand years ago, a great exodus happened in lands of Middle Earth across the sea to the east of Hyrule. Here, the Dark Lord Sauron had risen to power and threatened to plunge that land into darkness. At this point in time, the races of Middle Earth were disjointed and fractured in the face of darkness.
Many Men, and some Elves and Dwarves and even a small number of Hobbits fled from Middle Earth, taking to the western seas to save themselves from the wrath of the Dark Lord. When they found Land at last, They found a land with rich fields, abundant streams and lakes, and the air practically hummed with wild magic.
They also found that this land had already been claimed. The Eastern volcanic mountains had been claimed by the mighty Gorons and the Northern Heights by the unyielding Yetis. The lakes and rivers were ruled cold Zora. The plains were dominated by the savage Bulbins. Only the massive forests to the south lay unclaimed.
The people of Middle Earth Lived at the Northern Edges of these forests, never daring to travel too deep into them for fear of becoming lost. While a group of Hobbits and Elves did split off to travel deep into these untamed and savage lands, they were never heard from again.
After nearly a thousand years, the races of middle earth had intermingled to such an extent that there were no more Dwarves, Men, Elves or Hobbits, but there only remained Hylians, for they had named themselves after the land they had lived in for so long that none remembered Middle Earth or even remembered their bloodlines beyond a few generations, for all those of pure elven heritage had long passed.
They Hylians bore some features of their ancestors. They were master craftsmen in the manner of Dwarves, skilled farmers in tune with nature similar to Hobbits, bore pointed ears and carried themselves with grace similar to Elves (though all to much lesser extent). Inexplicably, they were short lived like Men despite their ancestry, for very few ever lived beyond their sixties. Just as inexplicably, was their great resilience. Even a thin Hylian was capable of feats of strength that would surpass even the amazing strength of the Gorons and recover from wounds that would have slain any normal man. Some scholars have suspected that they chose to give their longevity for such traits.
They also bore the flaws from their ancestry as well. Pride, stubbornness, greed and a the desire for conflict.
So began the conflict.
It began with the invasion of Hyrule Fields, the massive plains where the Bulbins raised the great swine. The Hylians, with their horses (descended from those of Rohan) and powerful bows easily drove the Bulbins to the deserts in the west.
After this point it becomes unclear what happens. From what can be determined, the two advantages that the Hylians had, their horses and archers, were rendered useless when fighting the Gorons and Zora. The Gorons lived in rock mountainous terrain where cavalry would have been little threat and arrows would just bounce of their rock like exteriors. Likewise, lakes and rivers nullified the Hylian cavalry and Zoras would ambush the Hylian forces whenever they attempted to cross a river of fill their water supplies. Even amongst themselves there was quarreling. A faction left to live in the valley North of the great desert, calling themselves the Gerudo.
It wasn't until a great evil had risen that any sort of peace came about. No records from this time exist, but legends state that that a man united all the races of Hyrule under a single banner to counter this threat. Even with the might of their combined forces, the armies of evil pressed forward. It was at this time a hero came forward. All that is known was that he wore a green tunic, and carried with him a mighty blade that was said to be the bane of evil. With the help of the greatest wielders of magic on the side of good, he sealed away.
Many times over the centuries such evil has awaken, but every time, a hero has risen to restore peace.
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"And that's how Hyrule became a country," concluded Ilia.
"That doesn't make any sense. If no body remembers Middle Earth, how come you knew what it's name was?" asked Beth.
"And how come we live in the southern parts of the forests when people were too afraid to go too far south?" asked Talo.
"And how do you know he was wearing a green tunic?" asked Colin.
Ilia sighed. Some people would just hear a story and poke it for plot holes. It was like they didn't want to enjoy a story. "It really doesn't matter. We're almost there anyway."
"She's just upset that Link's away," said Malo in a quiet voice.
"Oh hush you!" Even if it was true.
Despite that, everyone was in somewhat high spirits to be on their way home.
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A short while later, Link went slowly as he rode his horse through the woods on the edge of Ordon Province. It was nice to finally be back. After crossing the bridge, he guided Epona to the spring and took off her tack.
"There you go girl. I'll come get you later."
Hefting the saddle over his shoulder, Link walked in silence back to the entrance of the village.
Standing by the gate, waiting for him, was Ilia. Link waved an arm in greeting. Ilia rushed at him and tackled him in a great hug causing him to drop the tack he was carrying.
"I'm glad you're back," she said quietly.
"Me to," he said with a small smile.
They remained in silence, enjoying their embrace.
"Link."
"Yes?"
"You need a bath."
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About that same time, a rather strange man was disembarking from a ship of the Eastern coast of Hyrule. He was a rather odd looking fellow. A tall chap with a full beard clad entirely in gray hat and robes. The men on the boat were looking wearily at the Zora and Goron dock workers as if they hadn't seen any before. This was because that, unlike most people in Hyrule, they hadn't seen Zora or Gorons before. Still, there were good to sell, supplies to purchase and, hopefully, a profit to be made.
The man in gray was completely unfazed by the strange creatures working the docks.
"Good day sir," spoke a Zora that appeared to be the person in charge of the docks.
"Do you mean to wish me a good day, or that it is a good day whether or not I want it to be? Or perhaps you feel good this day or that it is a day to be good on."
The unfortunate Zora stood speechless for a moment. "Um, m-more like a polite greeting than anything," he managed to stutter after he collected his thoughts. "Can- can I see your papers or id-identification?"
Gandalf, for that was the name of the man in gray, smiled disarmingly. During his long life he had discovered that people would be more likely to do what you asked them to when their head was still trying to figure out what you had just said.
"You don't need our identification," he said while waving his hand casually.
"I don't need your identification?"
"Ah, that's nice to hear. As it is, we happen to be lost at the moment. You see, a rather large storm has blown our ship quite far off course. Since that was the case, and that my companions cargo has a limited time before it begins to rot, we were wondering if we might be able to dock here to conduct our business."
"Ah, that shouldn't be a problem. If the captain of the vessel would come with me, the rest of the crew may do as they wish. Providing they cause no trouble of course."
So after assuring the crew that there was no danger, Gandalf went to what he assumed was a tavern of some kind. Another thing he had learned in his life was that alcohol tended to make people gossip considerably more.
As he sat sipping the local specialty, some sort of milk laced with strong spirits, he overheard little interesting news. The Ordonians had a large pumpkin crop this year. Not much ore was mined in Eldin. The Zora were in the middle of a succession crisis. Nothing out of the ordinary in the grand scheme of things. There were numerous references to a phenomenon known as "Twilight" that was alluded to and some stories of monsters that had began to cause problems.
It wasn't for some time that he began to hear reoccurring themes about a youth that would come seemingly out of nowhere just after the Twilight had gone away in an area.
Gandalf began to ask a few questions here and there. Mostly third and fourth hand accounts of what had supposedly happened. He highly doubted that a single man had singlehandedly fought off an over a hundred Bulbin raiders.
One thing did catch his attention. It was a story being told by one particularly excited Goron.
"Let me tell you," he said. "I heard it straight from Gor Coron himself that the Kid beat Fyrus singlehandedly."
"Oh come on, you really believe that?" added in a second.
"Well, Fyrus is gone, that's for sure."
"Well at least that's something. The fiery bastard has been keeping us away from the good ores for years."
This caught Gandalf's attention. It was far too familiar to the situation in Moria for his comfort.
"Might I inquire as to what this Fyrus is exactly?" he asked.
"Oh, he's a great big flaming hell beast what used to live in Death Mountain. No one could kill him so we just sealed off that part of the mines."
So, a young man had slain a Balrog. Even if it was a weak one, that was still an impressive feat for a mere mortal. Gandalf asked for a description of him. He wore a green tunic and rode an Ordonian warhorse. It wasn't much of a description, but it was what he could find out in a small town on the coast. So, after telling the crew of the boat he was on to wait for him, he set off to find this man.
A/N:
Also, if the geography of Hyrule seems off, that's because it is. The way I figure, Hyrule is a lot bigger than just what Link saw and that he didn't do the things as fast as the player did. For example, I think Ordon province would be a lot bigger than what we saw in the game. I mean, a whole province with a population total of fourteen (fifteen at the end)? That just doesn't make sense. Or why a village that small would have a mayor. So, the way I figure, Ordon Village is just the county seat for Ordon Province and "Mayor" Bo would be the overseer of the province. He would be kinda like a judge or governor or something assigned to take care of a couple dozen small communities like Ordon Village scattered throughout the province to the South. I also kinda figured that Kakariko (and all those other places we never see) would be kinda the same.
Now, for my basic estimate for distances, I arbitrarily assigned Southern Hyrule field a length (North to South) of about 30 miles (48 kilometers), or one day of travel (Based on 3 MPH walking speed and 10 hours per day travel). Villages and stuff would be the same size as they were in-game except for Castle Town, which would be much more massive.
I went through based on these estimates for travel time and about one day per dungeon, and came up with 73 days for the time Link spent saving the world. Now, that's on a speed run and assuming that he went 10 hours per day of travel, no extra rest or fun and all that crap. So I figure an even 80 days for the entire duration of Twilight Princess.