Disclaimer: Lynn is mine but nothing else belongs to me.
A/N: This chapter sets up the story. This actuall story will come very soon.
Life in 2304 is completely different from 2004 in our world. Not technology wise so much but the people themselves.
It all began in the 1900's when the Dwarves started to emerge from deep within the mountains. The humans that encountered them called them mountain men, not realizing they weren't even of the human race. This was because no one ever had more than a brief encounter with them since they avoided contact with outsiders and didn't stray very far from the mountains.
All of that changed though when in 2001 a human man, lost in the Rockie Mountains, met and befriended a couple of Dwarves who were out hunting. He noticed a ring that one of the Dwarves were wearing made out of a precious metal called Platnuim. When he showed intrest in it they showed him some more things out of the same metal that they called Mithril.
The man spent several days with the Dwarves and when he returned to the city he brought some of the Dwarvish jewelry with him. This eventually started a trade agreement between the humans and Dwarves. Soon after the Dwarves were introduced and accepted into civilization.
Soon after the acceptance of the Dwarvish race, humans were surprised to find out that the little people they refered to as midgits(no offence meant to any little people out there but that is a common term used) and dwarfs were actually another race entirely. These people were Hobbits that merged into the human civilization without notice.
Then another race of people made themselves known, the Isatari, or wizards and witches as they were better known. While the Dwarves and Hobbits were easily accepted the Isatari were not. Because of their immortality and magic they were feared at first.
Eventually though most accepted them and for the next two hundred or so years all four races lived and worked side by side. Sometimes marriages between these races occured and unfortunatly that didn't set well with some. Hate crimes against these mixed couples began to serface and many times death was the result.
This is where this tale begins. Lynn was born in November of 2283 to a human mother and an Isatari father making her immortal. Lynn's parents were brutally murdered when she was three. Their murders were determined to be a hate crime and their murderers were executed by leathal injection in the same year.At the age of twenty-one Lynn has lived on her own since leaving the foster care system at the age of seventeen.
About two years ago yet another race began to appear. This race of people were tall and unnaturally beautiful. They had pale, flawless complextions and leaf shaped ears. These people were called Elves by the Isatari and they had the agility of a cat and unnatural strength.
Lynn had never seen an Elf but she had heard stories about them from people who had. She was very curious about this race of beautiful people and became more so every time she heard a new story about them.
An Isatari by the name of Gandalf moved into the apartment across from her. Lynn became friends with him and he told her stories about the old ways of the Isatari. Gandalf also told her about the world when it was called Middle-Earth and about the history of the Dwarves, Hobbits and Elves.
One particular story about the One Ring really interested her and she would continually ask him questions about it and then one day she made a comment about wishing she could have been there to see it happen.