Disclaimer: None of the LotR original characters in this story belong to me. J.R.R Tolkien owns them. Tamuril, Darasil, Linwe, Larien, Damrod, Damrod II, and most of Legolas' siblings are of my creation.

Author Note: This is the first fan fiction I have ever attempted to write, so don't kill me! Please.... I wrote this about 6 years ago after first seeing the movies. It was met with much confrontation because it is so AU. I recently took it down, tweaked it, grammar and spell checked it, and made it more aesthetically pleasing.

Warning: Keep in mind that this story is extremely AU and centers around a character named Tamuril. Legolas is the only central LotR character that she interacts with for a while. Most of the characters are made up, so it is bordering on an original fiction, but there is just enough canon content to render it a fan fiction. I repeat: THIS IS EXTREMELY AU. Also, it is written in the Movie Universe, so a lot of the dates are going to be weird. I was very ignorant when I first wrote this and it may border on Mary Sue or Crackfic at times. I apologize.

Rating: The first chapters are probably at a PG rating for a little language and innuendo. The PG-13 rating doesn't come into affect until later chapters. I will warn you before hand. 


Prologue: A Birth of Secrets


Evania was known as the Morningstar of her people. She had long golden blonde hair, bright azure eyes, and a slim, envied figure. She was one of the most beautiful of all of the Elven maidens, including her sister Silimarina of Lothlorien. Evania was a native of the Elven realm of Lorien who had married at a very young age. Soon after the marriage, her husband Durgonhir, was slain on a war mission.

Evania was overcome with grief and soon left the city of Lothlorien with a war party similar to her deceased husband's. She thought that she could never love again, until a chance meeting with a soldier on her journey.

He was no Elven soldier, but Calhoun, a man of Gondor. They soon fell in love, but it was a forbidden love, shunned by the elves. But they cared not. They were soon married by a man in a foreign city and ran away together.

Many thought that men and elves should not wed, and it was not looked upon with grace. Evania removed herself from the land of Lorien residing with her husband in Minas Tirith where she was welcomed. Soon, Evania became pregnant. She and Calhoun were overjoyed.

Unfortunately, the happiness was short lived, for Calhoun was drafted to travel on a war mission to the Misty Mountains. The prayers of many were left unanswered, for Calhoun of Gondor was slain in battle. The entire city of Gondor was deeply grieved, and Evania was utterly heart broken. She felt that she could linger no longer. She had a choice to make.

With a heavy heart and many tears she decided it was time for her to leave the city of Minas Tirith and travel far away from the world of men, never to return. She left one day with a note saying that with great pain she had left for the Valinor and that she would not return. But she didn't go to the havens. She traversed to the last place that she thought herself to be welcome. Mirkwood: the barracks and kingdom of the Wood Elves.

Upon arriving in the House of Thranduil and his sons Elamond and Telrunyal, she changed her name to Waentalwen and kept her true heritage a secret only known by the royal family themselves. She soon fell in love with the crown prince, Elamond. They were married shortly prior to the birth of her daughter on December the 8th.

She named her daughter Tamuril.

She was announced as the daughter of Waentalwen and Elamond, and her true lineage was kept a secret even to herself. She was given the Morningstar pendant and bound to its grace; that as long as she wore it, she could not die in battle or of heartbreak. She would be practically invincible. Though, if she were to give it to another she would lose the extra abilities and become as any other Elf.

As she grew, they knew they could no longer keep the secrets. She had too many questions and they possessed no other ways to answer them. She wondered about too many things, such as her eyes for they were the deepest brown and neither her mother nor father possessed them. They told her that she must have inherited the gene from someone else in the family line before her them. It was a lie; such were many of the things that they told her.

Eventually, she no longer bought the stories that were told to her. She wanted the answers. The only thing that they told her was that Elamond was not her real father and that her true father had been an Edain.

She finally thought she understood why she was shorter than all of the other Elves. She thought she knew why she why her eyes were the color of mud. So many things fit into perspective for her now. All of her questions were answered. Or so she thought....