Thranduil knows better than any that beauty is only skin deep, but what does he believe lies underneath? Early Third Age and beyond.

"You left them to burn. You did nothing to help them," her voice brought him from his own thoughts as he shook his head. He moved with haste then, his face inches from hers as his eyes glowered down to her. "Do not talk to me of burning. You know nothing of me," he warned her. She shook her head. "And I do not wish to." Thranduil/OC

COMPLETE - "Your presence here in Middle-Earth is like the wind in the trees, Miss Darrow," Gandalf said, smoke wreathed around his head. "You may stir the branches, even knock loose a few leaves, but the tree itself remains untouched." Thorin/OC,

We've all seen the horribly butchered and cliché girl-falls-into-Middle-Earth stories. So is it possible to make a semi-realistic one? Follow Maddie on her own adventure exploring Middle Earth as the opposite of a Tenth Walker. COMPLETE

Darcy Lewis never imagined she'd be living in a house trailer in the New Mexico desert with the God of Thunder and his sociopath brother, but she's making the best of the situation. Until a frozen corpse shows up on the front porch. Casting herself as amateur sleuth, she embarks on a journey that will challenge her definitions of good, evil, love and what it is to be human.