Chapter 1

Danielle stared at the T.V. screen while blowing her nose into a tissue. Her dark auburn red hair was up in a simple bun and her green eyes were slightly red from crying. Her best friend, Rhiannan, looked over at her worriedly. This was probably the tenth time they had watched Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring this month and she was still crying at the end. She let out an air raspberry and flopped onto her back. They were once again watching Boromir's dieing scene, and it still made Danielle cry.

Rhiannan's dark brown eyes began to trace the shapes in the ceiling while her dark brown hair fell slightly off the couch. She never did understand why Danielle still cried at this part, or even got teary eyed, then again Danielle was just getting over a simple cold from playing Golf in the rain for six hours straight. It made her worry about her friend sometimes, "Rhiannan?" Danielle spoke looking over at her, the ending music was just starting up and Danielle was recomposing herself.

"Hm?" Rhiannan answered sitting back up.

"Who would you say your favorite character is out of the entire series?" she asked her hugging her knees and looking at her friend with a happy smile. Danielle was always like this. Sad one moment then ready to run around like a high lunatic the next. It was the perks of being her friend, she could make any bad moment seem better then it really was.

"I would say Haldir," Rhiannan told her truthfully tucking her hair behind her ears. "Obviously yours is Boromir."

"Oh man," Danielle told her between small chuckles, "we are a pathetic pair. Both our characters die. Guess that explains our future."

"Yep, our love life is doomed," Rhiannan answered, she suddenly jumped up, arms spread out yelling, "Doomed! Doomed I tell you DOOOOMMED!"

"Meeh," Danielle laughed picking up their empty pop cans, "at least yours is around for two of the movies, Boromir only lasts for one."

Rhiannan smiled gleefully and picked up the popcorn bowl, "Yep, so we going to the mall tomorrow? I really need to look for some new pants, saw the sweetest pair in Hot Topic."

"Don't you all ready have too much black?"

"Too much black?" Rhiannan asked in an unbelieving voice. "Never! I mean honestly, who can have too much black? I think you have too little, you actually have a pink outfit in your wardrobe, I am just in absolute shock!"

"It's only for Easter and you know that," Danielle huffed while they walked into the kitchen. Rhiannan had a pair of black pajama bottoms on with black cats all over and a green camouflage T-Shirt that read: I'm hiding from my imaginary friends. Danielle on the other hand had a pair of black happy bunny pajama bottoms that read at the hip: Your anger makes me happy, and a simple black tank top with two simple white words: Bite me.

Now they were both at Danielle's house for the weekend. Danielle's parents were off on a little get away and they were watching the house. Her house was up on a mountain near a gully in the middle of the woods Danielle would be turning eighteen in a month, the date was October 20th, and Rhiannan wouldn't turn eighteen tell next May. They were both huge Lord of the Rings fans, but never took any of it too seriously. They just found entertainment in fretting over it for the heck of it. You really couldn't call either of them gothic, they just really liked the color black and most of their clothes were dark. Rhiannan was the real Tom boy, but like any girl had her girly moments, they didn't last long though. Danielle was more of a girl compared to Rhiannan, but would never admit to it.

"You know what we should do," Danielle told her while they headed back into the living room, "We should go camping tomorrow. I mean we have all weekend."

"Sure I guess," Rhiannan shrugged, she had kind of forgotten about their planned trip into the mall, "whatever works. It would be fun, I think. We should just do it out in your front yard! Like last time! You remember? When we thought there were Banshees in the gully behind your house. We were so scared and it was so funny, the way you lead Sam and me on like that, making us believe there really were Banshees. So sad."

Danielle smiled evilly, "I still believe there are fairies out there."

Rhiannan rolled her eyes and tossed a pillow in her direction. A muffled scream was heard and then a fit of giggles. The two settled down to watch the next two DVD's.

The next day came easily enough for the two girls and they were outside attempting to set up the tent. Though to no avail. It kept collapsing into itself and Danielle had completely given up on it. So they decided if would be better if they just slept in their sleeping bags on the ground and slept under the stars. Surprisingly neither of them found a problem with it.

Later that night the two were lying under the stars pointing out shooting stars and just talking about things, "So, if you had the chance," Danielle asked without removing her gaze from the sky, "would you save Haldir from his fate?"

"I dunno," Rhiannan shrugged, "maybe, if I actually knew how to wield a weapon. I would like to, but… I don't know if I'm able to… Same thing with you and Boromir?"

Danielle nodded her head, "Yeah, I think so. We'll never get the chance though," she grumbled turning on her side to pull an extra blanket out of her bag. Inside her bag was two changes of clothes, a brush, her tennis shoes, and all three books of the Lord of the Rings. It was of the older version so they didn't have any pictures on them.

"Blah," Rhiannan muttered rolling her eyes, "maybe in our dreams we will. There is nothing wrong with hoping for it."

"I didn't know you were the kind to dream about these kind of things," Danielle smirked while they pulled their own blankets over their bodies. Their eyes began to drift shut, as if by force. The air, began to shift slightly, but not fast enough for either to notice. It was too dark, to calm.

Rhiannan shrugged, "I dunno. It's just weird. In the book Haldir doesn't die, he doesn't even go to Helm's Deep, but I can't help but feel sad when he dies in the movie. I mean it's just a movie…"

Danielle yawned and turned on her side, "Yeah, I know what you mean, at least yours doesn't die in the book…mine does period…night…Rhiannan…"

"Night…" was the response.

Note: MHWAHAHAHAHA! No not really. This is just a simple intro. Yes it is another girls fall into middle earth tenth and eleventh walker, but oh well. You'll get over it. Everyone has to do one of these. I'm hoping that in a way this will be different. My partner in crime and I have decided to try and combine the movie and the book. To hopefully follow the book better, but use a lot of the movie as well since its just easier to understand certain parts of the movie compared to the book and visa versa and so on. Anyway, if you read this, thanks from both of us. We will promise to update this weekend and…tee hee… A teaser for the Next Chapter:

Danielle rolled over and hugged onto the creature next to her. She was known for her rolling around and for her capability to sing and dance in her sleep. Rhiannan found it funny sometimes, but mostly irritating other times. Danielle giggled when she felt the small creature nuzzle up to her slightly. Her eyes opened and her first thought was, Wait…Rhiannan's on the other side of me…and…she's not this small…

She opened her eyes cautiously and let out a horrific scream, "Bloody Son of a Monkey!" she hollered flailing her arms about, attempting to stand up, but toppling back onto Rhiannan. The small critter she had been hugging stared at her with large eyes of curiousity and fear. Another thought flared in Danielle's mind while she stared at the small creature, By the land its…its…PIPPIN?