A Naruto and the Middle-earth Saga (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) Crossover
Disclaimer: All in my short life, I've never own very expensive things except for my life and my family. So there is no way in heaven and hell I own Tolkien's Legendarium or Kishimoto's work. These titles belong to their respective creators.
A/N: I'm sorry for the grammatical errors.
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance, Fantasy
Warnings: Violence, Strong Language
Tags: Godlike/Immortal/Badass/Intelligent/Overpowered/Serious Naruto/Minor crossovers/Small Harem
Universe: Animeverse/Bookverse/Movieverse
Series: The Legend of the Maelstrom
"Jutsus/Spells/Time change/ Place change"
"Otherworldly Beings Talking"
"Otherworldly Beings Thinking"
'Flashback'
"Normal Speaking"
"Normal Thinking/Telepathy speaking"
"Sauron is nothing like his master, he's a conniving bastard and a trickster, however, his strength is like comparing an eagle to a snake helpless in the ground as the eagle swoop in."
-Uzumaki Naruto
Act 1 - A Help Comes
Chapter 2: To Imladris we come
Previously from the Legend of the Maelstrom: The Eternal Sage of Arda
"A storm is coming, go and I will meet your armies at Imladris. Boe I'waen, Galu." Naruto mounted his steed and rode away towards the gates of Amon Sûl down the hill to Imladris.
"Namárië, Melda heru! Gil-galad walk back towards their armies and went to prepare what he needs to do before marching to Rivendell.
"Until our next meeting…" He muttered as he approached Elendil.
"Noro lim, Rochallor, Noro lim!" Naruto shouted as they went pass the Gates of Amon Sûl towards the east to Rivendell as the guards at the gate bowed at him.
As soon as he left the fortress, he used the Great East Road straight to Rivendell, but the distance from Amon Sûl and the Hidden Valley would be 12 days if he is on foot, and if the weather is forgiving. However, Rochallor is one of the fastest steeds in Middle-earth so, it would only take a 6 to 7-day ride to the Hidden Valley.
Story Start.
It has been nearly 2 weeks when Naruto left Amon Sul, now, he staying in Rivendell, talking and feasting with the Elves as they continued to go on with their lives, but they are growing weary of the rising shadow from the East which is why he went to Rivendell in the first place, seeing that he hasn't set foot in the place after it was built by Elrond after the fall of the Elven City of Eregion in the south. Most of the time, he is either in Lothlórien, in Greenwood or in Lindon. He rarely went to Minas Anor or Minas Ithil, before it was destroyed one year ago; usually, when he goes to Gondor, he stays in Dol Amroth, at the coast, sometimes, he goes to Pelargir and Isengard in Calenardhon. If you are going to ask where does he spend the longest if he goes to the Kingdom of Men, in the Capital of Arnor: Annúminas, in the shores of Lake Evendim. But enough of that, let's go to the story.
"Elendil and Gil-galad's army is marching towards Imladris, in three days, they'll be here." Naruto stated as he looked towards the sinking sun over the valley from a porch.
"Lord Naruto, we cannot fit them all in the Hidden Valley, we must create a military camp near the ford in Bruinen. We cannot fit 475 000 Men and Elves inside. The largest capacity of Rivendell is only 50 000 people, as of now, we have 30 000 troops ready, that's doesn't even include the civilian elves and the rest of the troops who are off duty. We must do something." A man wearing a long elven noble robes with a circlet on his head answered.
"Elrond, I know that. Don't worry, I'll send them a message later this night." Naruto replied to his companion, whose name is Elrond Half-elven. Leader of the Elves residing in the refuge of Rivendell.
"But still-" "No, no. I won't have your say for this now, I already have something in my mind that will make things better when they arrive, so let me do what I need to do, and for that, I will need you and your people's help. Is that clear?" Elrond have no choice but to agree, you don't want to get on Naruto's bad side, especially if there is a war going on.
"Now, that we're settled, we need to prepare for their arrival, I'm sure they'll be expecting a grand welcome." Naruto began to walk away from the porch as he went towards the Grand Hall where Rivendell Elves have gathered according to Elrond's command.
"Good evening, Elves of Imladris. As you may have heard by now, the High Kings Gil-galad and Elendil have begun their plans to retaliate against Sauron and right now, their army is marching towards here, to Imladris. We, therefore must prepare for their arrival in three days' time, currently, we have a strong 30 000 troops ready for war, but against the Dark Lord, it is not enough, never enough. In the following days, we must all prepare for their arrival as they will not be able to fit inside the Hidden Valley, tonight we must begin securing the areas in the fords of Bruinen, we don't want to have any casualties before even the war begins. Now, I want my Generals to come with me in the Council Room, we need to talk." Multiple elves nodded as they left the hall, the rest stayed in their place.
"For the rest of you, await orders. Dismissed." Elrond dismissed the people of Rivendell as they went on their ways as they wait for the upcoming orders from the Lords of Rivendell. Naruto stood with the Master of the Hidden Valley as he waited for what is going to happen next.
"Let us go milord." Elrond led Naruto towards the back of the House of Elrond where the council room is located.
"You know what do then?" Naruto said as they walk through the halls of the building.
"Yes milord, however, are you sure this is wise? To take up arms against Sauron at this time?" Elrond asked, still unsure of the plans for the upcoming war. Naruto just smirked at him.
"Don't worry, you and I have seen and fought many battles in the past centuries, we have seen far too many winters to be afraid." Naruto answered as they arrived the council chamber, they saw the elf-lords of Rivendell sitting the chairs around the stone table.
"Good evening, as you may have heard, the High Kings of the Dúnedain and of the Ñoldor have begun marching towards here, now we need to scout the areas of Bruinen. Now, any questions?" Elrond asked as the elf-lords with Naruto remained silent, until one of the elves spoke, he was tall and straight, shining golden hair, he is fair and looked young, but he is also has the aura of fearlessness and joy and his blue eyes were bright and speaking of speaking of wisdom through age.
"We are ready to scout the area but, how many are the soldiers of Arnor and Lindon?" Elrond was about to answer him but Naruto interrupted him.
"475 000 strong Elves and Men, I know what it is you want to say Glorfindel, I've known you for a long time when you were still Glorfindel of Gondolin, that's why we need Bruinen secured and everything must be ready here in the Hidden Valley, the forges, the stables, everything." Naruto said to the man, now known as Glorfindel, the bearer of the Silver Armor and a former elf-lord of the lost kingdom of Gondolin.
"From what the scouts reported, some areas in Bruinen is occupied by Orcs and Goblins. If securing all of Bruinen is needed, then we must act now in the cover of the night." Another elf stated, he has a shining black hair and green eyes.
"I agree with Erestor; we must take action now if we are in haste." An elf with a brown hair and black eyes voiced his opinion.
"Yes Lindir, so are there any more problems? Well then, Erestor, Lindir, get your men armed and clear out the area around Bruinen, Glorfindel, stay here. Dismissed." The two elves that Elrond mentioned left the place while Naruto, Elrond and Glorfindel remained.
"Now, we wait." Naruto muttered as he glances in the shining moon and stars, there was silence as he thought about the upcoming days.
"Kaguya, you sleeping?" Naruto called to the Rabbit Goddess, who was his nemesis a very long time ago, it was when the old world was broken and before Arda was even formed. Those were the darkest days of the world has ever faced.
"No, I'm just wondering about Nienna, you know, she's always mournful." Kaguya replied to his mind as Naruto remembered of whom she speaks. Nienna, the Lady of Mercy, of Pity and Mourning, one of the Exalted Ones or the Aratar and a Vala.
"She is eternally concerned with the suffering of others, always in a state of deep grief. Staring out in the sea, weeping, that's why I always comforted her, ever since the first time I saw her in Aman, I knew she carries a very heavy burden. One day soon, I will make her happy." Naruto replied as Kaguya smiled at him benevolently.
"I am looking forward for that day, you made her smile already, but now, you must do what you need to help the people of Middle-earth against their opposition." She stated as Naruto agreed with her, because he knew that whatever happens, he is still the same man from the ages past.
"Yeah, but what I can only say is that this may be the last days of the Second Age. The dawn of a new age is coming."
"I agree, but I don't think that if Sauron would be defeated, it would be the end of all things." Kaguya replied, making Naruto wonder about it; it would seem that she too knows far many things like he does, about this world of course.
"I wonder… " With that, she remained quiet as Naruto continued to look at the stars and the moon, feeling the sorrow of the world, left by Morgoth before he was chained and thrown through the Doors of Night to the Void. Of all the Valar, Nienna was the one who was most affected by the marring of Arda by Morgoth, whom is known as Melkor at the time, however, as much as she is concerned with mourning and pitying the suffering, she is not bound to endless grief, there was also hope and endurance, this what Naruto saw in her when he first appeared in the Timeless Halls where Eru Illuvatar lives at the time when he summoned the Valar in his halls a very long time ago.
"I already did many things, I changed the history of Beleriand, you remember? When some events in past did not happen as the lore books says, but, I think the interferences that I made was for the best. After all, I never wanted to see such a fair being to suffer from grief and sorrow because of the treachery and deception of a dragon, which no mortal should ever suffer with the only thing left is to commit suicide." He thought to himself, while Kaguya remembered what he is talking about.
"Ah yes, the sad tale of the Children of Húrin. Before I forgot, where is the Dragon Helm of Dor-lómin?" Kaguya asked Naruto who became silent for a few minutes.
"I have it; I will wear it soon, when the march to Mordor begins." His tone meant that was the end of their conversation because the supper bell of Imladris was rung, which means supper is being served.
=Time skip: Three days later - The Arrival of the Elves and Men from Amon Sûl to the Ford of Bruinen=
Multiple horns were sounded on the other side of Bruinen, it was a combination of Elves and Men. The horn of Elves was sounded on high key while the Men sounded theirs on low to medium key. From the side of Imladris, the leaders of the army, which basically Gil-galad, Elendil and their generals, saw Naruto standing outside the entrance to the hidden valley, but they can't see the entrance, seeing that it is THE Hidden Valley.
"Welcome! I was waiting here for an hour, what took you so long?" Naruto greeted them with some form of enthusiasm, Gil-galad and Elendil bowed slightly before the two High Kings crossed the river with their horses.
"Greetings milord, we just faced some small delays on the Great East Road, but everything is fine now. Where is Master Elrond?" The Ñoldorin King spoke to Naruto as they dismounted from their horses.
"He is inside the Valley, preparing things for your arrival, and by the way, you must prepare the camp here in the Ford and as you might have seen, the area has been secured by the Scouts of Rivendell. You two, follow me." The two kings lead their horses towards the hidden entrance as they followed Naruto, leaving their Generals on the other side of Loudwater (Bruinen) on their devices.
"Well, do we just wait here?" A man wearing a royal Arnorian Armor asked an Elf-lord beside him. The elf remained silent and just gracefully shrugged his shoulders. The man looked towards back to the two kings who vanished with Naruto.
"Damn, leaving us here." He just muttered to himself before facing the joint army of the High Elves and of Arnor.
"Establish a camp here! While we wait for their return."
With Naruto, Elendil and Gil-galad...
The three entered the valley and the two kings saw the beauty of it. Especially for Elendil for he has never set foot on the place, Gil-galad have been here before, but it did not stop his amazement to the place. It was a masterpiece that cannot be achieve on these darker days. The refuge of Rivendell was built years ago after the sack of Eregion and the hiding of the Three Elven Rings by Elrond and his folk. Unto this day, it has never been sieged by any enemy for they are always defeated by the magic that protects the place, courtesy of Elrond and Naruto whom created the magical protection of the place.
They walked in the path that is carved on the cliff side towards the House of Elrond himself. It was a very beautiful place, full music, light and learning. The two kings saw elves walking around to and fro in Rivendell, guards, were stationed, people preparing things, all in all, the place is very busy and they knew it.
"Let us go, they are expecting the two of you." Naruto told them and they began to tread faster towards the refuge where Elrond is waiting for their arrival. It was not until a several minutes when they crossed the narrow bridge that leads to the archway entrance of the House of Elrond. The Elven Guards saluted them and they went upwards the hill where Elrond and his officers wait for them. When they arrived near the doors of the Grand Chamber, they were welcomed by Elrond in his robes with his generals, they bowed to the two kings as a gesture and the two replied with the same gesture.
"Welcome to Rivendell, my lords." Elrond greeted the two kings while Naruto walked away from them towards the porch where he relaxed without thinking of anything. Just letting the wind blow to his face and his robes.
"Now, we have readied everything for the two of you. While I have sent people to set up the camp outside the valley. I hope it would be fine for them to stay there, seeing that this place will need space for the coming years." Elrond told the kings but they just said that it is fine, they too also knew that Rivendell is way too small for the number of soldiers that has camped on the other side of the ford.
"Don't worry about that Master Elrond, we have already talked about it earlier before we went here." Elendil answered him while Gil-galad just smiled at his former herald. Elrond sighed as Naruto walked away from the entrance towards the Grand Hall where some Elves walk around, to read or just to walk, or to simply think about nothing. He then turned to a corridor that leads to the training area, deciding to not follow him, Elrond just stayed and talked with the two kings.
"Is there something wrong, Master Elrond?" Elendil noticed the Lord of Rivendell's behaviour at the moment, Gil-galad noticed it too but did not comment on it. Elrond merely shook his head and said nothing but assurance that everything is fine.
During these past few days, Naruto is being quite odd, he has no idea why and have no intention of finding out, considering all will be revealed in due time. But he believes that it will pass considering it is Naruto here that we are talking about. There is no problem that lasts long if Naruto is included, he can deal with it himself and knows how exactly how to do it.
With Naruto…
"Here comes war… again. I had fair share of war in the past ages and now, seriously, I'm tired of this shit." He thought to himself but he is never alone at this, she is always with him, anywhere, anytime.
"Remember, you are not alone dear, I'm here with you. Nienna is with you, she understands your pain more than me, or anyone else. Everyone that survived the past ages had enough of war, so they joined you, those thousands of elves you have hiding in the White Mountains will not go to war, as you have told them, they see you as their only leader, not Gil-galad, not anyone. But as a promise, you need to help the free peoples of Middle-earth, your old student gave you everything you need as an apology and payment, use it wisely." Kaguya replied to him as he sat on a bench in the balcony.
"I know… oh well, it's not like I have better things to do, well except having fun… you want to have some loving tonight?"
"Do I really need to answer that?"
"Not really, but… forget it. We'll forget everything and have some fun under the moon. Tomorrow, we prepare for war."
=Time skip: the following day=
"We have talked about a lot thing already. Why not talk about the forging of extra weapons and armor for the ill-equipped soldiers, we need every supplies, they all count on this. You know this, especially you, Glorfindel. When the original you lived in the days of Morgoth, curse his name, you know every essential in war, every option must be considered, or you'll end up like… those seven idiots in the First Age." Of course, Gil-galad, Elrond and Glorfindel knew who he was talking about, the rest… hmm, they're too young to know about those things and they're best forgotten.
"I know, and yes, that's a good idea. Why not begin forging new weapons and armors, clearly we have time, a good time, from what your spies have told us, Sauron has no plan of doing anything for five years except for recovering his strength. And within two years, we have enough time to mass more allies, and in three years, we can spend training more soldiers and forging weapons here, might as well give Imladris a new name: The Great Forge, it has a nice right into it isn't?" The Elf-lord Glorfindel said to the others in the council in Rivendell.
"Forget about that new name for now, so, from what we have talked about, our agendas for the next two years is to prepare supplies and supply lines along the way towards Gondor? Elendil, Isildur, Anarion?" Naruto looked towards the three Numenoreans who nodded to him.
"Yes, milord. We plan to establish multiple supply lines through Isengard to the Plains of Calenardhon to Minas Anor, and Osgiliath then towards the gates of Mordor where we would certainly make a camp." Anarion answered him, but Gil-galad interjected.
"Why not add a supply line from Lindon to Annúminas then to Imladris, then Imladris above the Misty Mountains to the Realms of the Lothlorien and Greenwood which would connect to the supply lines in Calenardhon." The Elf-king said to them. They looked towards each other and nodded in agreement.
"Gil-galad, you have forgotten the Dwarves of Khazad-dûm, we also need the Dwarves in this. Why not a supply line from Lindon to Annúminas then to Fornost then to Amon Sul and lastly, here in Imladris. From here, we go above the Misty Mountains, recruit the dwarves under Durin IV then south via Anduin to Lothlorien and Greenwood, we need Amdir and Oropher here. Then to the lines in outside the Fangorn and as you have told us earlier, Sauron attacked the forest and the Gondorians are waiting in the area. Which would connect to Calenardhon to Minas Anor, but we still have Isengard, why not make two supply lines from Imladris. One would be the ones I mentioned earlier and the other is directly south through Eregion then to the Doors of Khazad-dûm then to Isengard at Fords of Isen? Then from Isengard to Gondor."
"That's actually a good idea. Ok, that is final about the supply lines; we shall do what you said Lord Naruto and so that we could plan more things for the upcoming battles, which I believe is in five years from now? Is that right?" Elendil said while the others agreed, they have five years to do many things.
"Well, while we are preparing for that, we also have to talk about the training that our men and women would do." Glorfindel gave his own idea as Naruto nodded.
"Yes, but we still have more plans to do. What are we waiting for?"
A/N: And voila, here's my next chapter of the Legend of the Maelstrom: The Eternal Sage of Arda. I'm sorry for the long wait, considering I have many things to do. My God, tomorrow is the start of my very last year in school. Year 12, here we come.
I don't know why I'm listening to Mozart's Requiem Mass in D minor while typing this chapter. But damn, I love that music piece.
=Harem=
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki
Nienna, the Compassionate, the Lady of Pity and Mourning and the Lady of Mercy (Teacher of Olórin (Gandalf)). An Ainu, one of the Aratar and a Vala.
Andriel, the Elven Loremaster (The Lord of the Rings: War in the North)
Tauriel? Anyone?
