Okay, I am REALLY sorry that this is just a author's note, but I really think that I need to clear a few things up.

1) Elona's physical and mental age, and other weird elfish things.

Elona looks like a nine year old girl physically, so as an elf, she would be about fourteen to sixteen years old. However she is actually about eleven or twelve years old mentally because she has had no parental guidance since her parents died and she had no piers to copy. The people of Laketown were no help either.

One of my reviewers also pointed out that elves don't get sick, or have fevers. Well, Elona has been living off of almost nothing for over five years, and is so malnourished that I'm not actually sure if it's even physically possible for her to be alive. Therefore, her body is doing all those weird medical things that happen when your starved and she got a fever. End of story. (I'm not a doctor. Can you tell?)

2) Thorin's OOCness

Yes, I have realized that he is a little soft around Elona. I can explain this. In my head canon, Thorin does have a really good heart under the gold lust and stubborn disposition. He was just too burdened with the fall of Erebor, the death of his grandfather and brother, looking for his father, the Battle of Azanulbizar, and raising the little devils named Fili and Kili to let it show. And I don't think I even have to mention the quest and dragon sickness. So now since he had reclaimed his mountain, avenged his brother and grandfather, and Fili and Kili are (mostly) grown up, he can relax a little bit. But don't worry, the cold, gruff Thorin will still make the occasional appearance.

And someone pointed out that Thorin hates elves so why would he be nice to Elona? Again in my head canon, he gave the elves their treasure after they gave back the Arkenstone, and while they still aren't best buds, they aren't trying to kill each other either. And also Tauriel showed him that not all elves are stupid, heartless idiots (as much as I want to insert a certain word there, I refuse to swear, so please don't in your reviews). And with the whole Kili/Tauriel relationship, I believe I explained his thoughts on that in chapter one.

3) Grammar mistakes and minor detail problems.

I WILL fix these! I just don't have a ton of time right now. If you could just over look them for now, I will be eternally grateful :-)

So after this note, posts and updates will be very slow coming. I have posted all my pre-written chapters, and I had to completely erase what I had for chapter six. It was absolutely horrible. I am going to apologize in advance now, but if you guys have any questions when you read this, please PM me or leave a review at any time. I try to answer all questions I get.

I am in the eternal debt of Borys68 and ladymoonscar for pointing out some of the major mistakes I made and I will try my hardest to correct them. Thank you to all you have reviewed, favorited, and are following. I love you to death :-)

So now that I have taken care of that, I have a question. Should I include Gandalf in this story, and if I do, should he recognize Elona? I already have the climax and end of the story planned out, but I need a few filler chapters for Elona/Thorin bonding, because the end will make absolutely no sense if they didn't have that Daddy's Little Girl relationship.