Chapter 2- Enter Gandalf
Disclaimer: I DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT own any of the Lord of The Rings characters, or anything else created by the genius himself, J. R. R. Tolkien. I am NOT MAKING ANY MONEY off of this. I just created Sage, and her horse. I decided I am not going to create a new town for her. One more thing, this is about 30 years before the war of the ring till otherwise mentioned. Hope you like- Lady Tinnia..(
'thoughts' * Dreams*
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Sage slowly opened her eyes to a blurry world, but after a few moments her vision focused on the ceiling. She slowly pushed herself up into a sitting position, and turned head when she heard voices from outside her door. One was her father's.
"When should we tell her?" said her father.
" Tonight or tomorrow. Let her enjoy her birthday," said the other voice that sounded familiar.
" Do you think she will take it well?"
"She will take it as well a she possibly can, and that's all we can expect."
Sage walked slowly towards the door during the conversation, and now reached it. She moved her hand up towards the doorknob. She slowly twisted the handle so she could see out of the small crevice. She saw a tall, man in gray robes with a pointy gray worn hat. Sage's eyes went wide when she realized who it was. "Gandalf," she cried with excitement and ran out the door.
As Gandalf turned, Sage jumped up and squeezed him tightly.
"It is so wonderful to see you again," Sage exclaimed.
"And it is good to see you alive, child," replied Gandalf.
" But you seemed to talking about something that involved me a few minutes ago."
There is moment of silence, where Sage looks at Gandalf curiously, trying to read his thoughts but can't. Gandalf also is trying to read Sage's mind. 'Hmmm. Her shields are growing stronger, and I can feel her power increasing,' Gandalf pondered.
"All will revealed in good time," said Gandalf with a smile, "In the mean time, I suggest you go wash up, and get ready to greet your guests because your sixteenth birthday party starts in an hour."
He then leaves the hall, followed by her father. 'I hate it when he says that,' Sage thought, as she turned to wash up, and get ready for her biggest birthday party, the whole village was invited. Sage took a quick bath then went out to her bedroom, and found a bright turquoise dress on her bed. 'It's so gorgeous' Sage thought, before trying it on. When she was done she twirled around in front of the mirror, feeling quite pleased with her look. Sage then brushed her vibrant locks, and put a blue lily above her right ear. She took one final look in the mirror, and thought to herself, 'Your going to knock them dead.'
Sage then slowly opened the door and peered out the window on the other side of the hallway. There were tons of people already there. 'Ok, maybe tons is an exaggeration,' she thought, 'but there were too many there already.' Sage took a deep breath out the door and as she did she had vision. *In a home built in the side of the hill, there were two short people with big feet. Sort of like the halfings from legends. One was obviously older than the other was. The older one said, "It's a dangerous business Frodo, going out of your door. You step onto the road and if you don't keep your feet, there's no telling where you might be swept off to."* 'That was strange,' thought Sage as she walked down to the town square. When she got there her mother began fussing over the fact she was late.
"The party started awhile ago, Sage. It isn't a good thing for the hostess to be late to her own party."
" I know mother, but it is only ten minutes. It is not the end of the world."
Of course that was when the music started and that meant dancing. 'Oh no not dancing. I hate dancing,' Sage thought. Of course her father had already arranged for her to dance with the Clancy boy. They must have danced for ten songs then Sage said she needed to sit down and rest. Clancy of course tried to offer to stay with her, but Sage wanted to be alone. Night was falling, and that meant it was time to eat. Sage didn't eat too much. She wasn't very hungry. Everyone around her was talking, but after a few minutes they became silent. Sage looked over to the head of the table and her father was standing up.
"Ladies and Gentlemen of Esgaroth. As Mayor of the town and father to Sage, I thank you all for coming to tonight's celebration of Sage's sixteenth birthday," boomed her father's voice.
Then a colorful array of colors filled the sky. Immediately, the words "HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAGE," were printed across the dark blanket of the night. Sage smiled happily. 'Gandalf's fireworks! He promised when I was little that one-day I would see them,' she recalled. After many more fireworks including fireflies, and birds. The grand finale was a giant phoenix streaking across the sky. Then when it disappeared over the horizon, it exploded in fireworks of reds, blues, yellows, and greens. After that it was time for the guests to go home. Sage bid everyone of them farewell, and it would end up being farewell for a very long time. When the last guest left, Sage turned homeward so she could go to sleep something she couldn't wait for. When she finally got to the hallway that led to her room. Sage heard someone clear his or her throat in the corner. She whirled around to see it was Gandalf.
"Gandalf! Thank you for such an amazing display of fireworks!" Sage exclaimed before giving Gandalf another hug.
"Your welcome child, but there is something we need to discuss," he said smiling his eyes twinkling like he knew something she did not. Then he continued down the path that Sage was going to take. Sage just blinked a few times in confusion then realizing she should be following him, she tore down the hall to catch up. When they finally reached her room. Gandalf turned around and looked her in the eye. Sage felt something brush through her thoughts but it disappeared as soon as she realized it was there.
"I know this maybe hard for you to understand, and you may have questions but please let me finish before asking them," he remarked quickly before beginning the story. " A long time ago," he began, "There were five protectors of Middle Earth. They were called the Sages. They each protected different elements of the planet, and different peoples of Middle Earth. The Earth sage was the protector of the Elves, Ents, and the other creatures of the forest. His name was Arda. The Fire Sage, Narya, lived within Moria and protected the dwarves. Vilya, The Wind Sage, lived in the clouds, and watched the creatures in the forests south of Gondor. The Water Sage, Nenya, lived along the shores of the rivers, and streams protecting the race of man. Then there was the Sage of the Mind, the youngest of them all. She simply went by Elith, meaning light, and she protected the hobbits. When Sauron came to power he knew that the Sages would be an obstacle. So when he ordered the rings of power to be made he said that their souls were to be trapped in the rings. Narya was the first who was attacked. He was just standing in the fire watching the doors mine for mithril when his soul was sucked out of his body. All this happened right under Narya's nose. Well after his soul was stolen, the Sages heard about it and took precautions. The next who was attacked was Nenya. She was sitting on the edge the river watching the humans, and keeping an eye out for the soul snatcher. Unfortunately that wasn't enough because her soul got snatched right out from under her as well. Again the Sages heard the news and were once again careful. The next to go was Arda. He was in The Fangorn Forest at the time, listening to the trees around him. He however saw the soul snatcher and was able to start casting a spell to protect the elves, and Ents. Unfortunately the spell didn't protect the entwives. Actually it sent them into a black hole, but the Ents don't know this. With only two more Sages left, Sauron knew they would soon be eliminated, and he began to create the ring of power. Vilya was the last to go, and he knew he didn't have much time left. He left his people after casting concealing spell on the forests, and leaving the trees of life to the creatures of the Southern Forests. He moved north towards Gondor, and it was there his soul was stolen, and locked away. Four souls stolen and locked away. Vilya, Nenya, and Narya in the rings later to go to the elves, and Arda's soul was broken apart and placed in the seven dwarf rings. Elith was the only one left she immediately stormed towards Mordor when she ran into a member of the Istari, from the west. He was Mithrandir, better know as Gandalf. I told her that it would be a terrible loss for Middle Earth if the Sages were truly wiped out. Elith said she understood, and then cast a rebirth spell on herself. Her last message was, "Until I return, protect the halfings." And the halfings remain protected. Your probably thinking how this has to do with you, but I assure you it does," said Gandalf with that same twinkle in his eye, "You are Elith , Sage. You are the protector of the hobbits. But you cannot protect them if you can't use your powers."
"When do I start, Gandalf?" Sage questioned. "You start now," he said handing her a spoon, "break it with out touching it physically, and mend it again. Remember this though, 'There is no spoon."
Then he quickly he made his way out the door and down the hall. Sage looked at the spoon for a few minutes then decided to get changed first. She quickly let down her hair and changed out of the dress she had been wearing into her nightgown. Heading back to her bed, and getting ready to go to sleep, she glanced at the spoon in her hand then set it down on the nightstand. She then crawled into bed and went off into dreamland. Just before she did, the image of the spoon in two pieces crossed her mind followed by a snap.
The next morning Sage opened her eyes, and starred at the ceiling for a few minutes and looked back over the events from the previous night. That's when she remembers the spoon. Sage then rolled over.
"How do you break a spoon if you can't touch it, and what does there is no OH MY!" she yelled.
There on her nightstand was the spoon broken in two pieces. She looked closer and noticed they were two perfect pieces. She remembered the image of the spoon broken like this flash across her mind last night, and got an idea. 'Ok Sage, here goes nothing,' she thought as she picture the spoon whole. She opened her eyes and the spoon was whole.
"Wow. This weird but pretty nice," she said to nobody in particular. Then she pictured broken again this time in three pieces. She found it in three pieces.
"I control the spoon, "said Sage as she mended once more then picked it up and went to find Gandalf. She sprinted down the hall and out the door to find him leaving town. Sage ran to catch up to him.
"Gandalf wait! I think I got it," she cried down the road.
Gandalf's cart began to slow until it came to a halt. Then he turned around to look back at Sage running to catch up with him. When she got there she laid down the spoon.
"Watch," she said and focused on the spoon being in two again.
Gandalf watched and sure enough she broke it in two. Then she mended it back together. She was learning quickly. "Good, now try making the spoon float," Gandalf commented.
Sage took a deep breath and focused on the spoon floating. Sure enough it did. She smiled, extremely proud of herself.
"Well it seems that you had the power but you never used it," Gandalf said before adding, "If you hurry you might see some halfings."
Seeing Gandalf smile, Sage darted back into her home, and quickly packed some traveling clothes, food, a cloak, and other traveling necessities. Then she threw some of her precious belongings, a dress, and a couple other changes of clothes into a trunk. She pulled her back into a braid then picked up her bag, levitated the trunk then headed out the door. Gandalf was still down the road waiting. She put her bag and the trunk into the back of his cart, and they were on their way. Sage was saying goodbye to a place she had grown to love but never felt like she belonged. She then turned her gaze to the road ahead.
"So we're headed to The Shire right?" she asked. Gandalf chuckled. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ So do you like? Remember I am a very bad editor and may be missing words and stuff, so you'll have to figure it out. Yeah I know reviewing is really annoying but it helps me make the story more enjoyable for others to read. Thanx!!- Liz
Disclaimer: I DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT own any of the Lord of The Rings characters, or anything else created by the genius himself, J. R. R. Tolkien. I am NOT MAKING ANY MONEY off of this. I just created Sage, and her horse. I decided I am not going to create a new town for her. One more thing, this is about 30 years before the war of the ring till otherwise mentioned. Hope you like- Lady Tinnia..(
'thoughts' * Dreams*
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sage slowly opened her eyes to a blurry world, but after a few moments her vision focused on the ceiling. She slowly pushed herself up into a sitting position, and turned head when she heard voices from outside her door. One was her father's.
"When should we tell her?" said her father.
" Tonight or tomorrow. Let her enjoy her birthday," said the other voice that sounded familiar.
" Do you think she will take it well?"
"She will take it as well a she possibly can, and that's all we can expect."
Sage walked slowly towards the door during the conversation, and now reached it. She moved her hand up towards the doorknob. She slowly twisted the handle so she could see out of the small crevice. She saw a tall, man in gray robes with a pointy gray worn hat. Sage's eyes went wide when she realized who it was. "Gandalf," she cried with excitement and ran out the door.
As Gandalf turned, Sage jumped up and squeezed him tightly.
"It is so wonderful to see you again," Sage exclaimed.
"And it is good to see you alive, child," replied Gandalf.
" But you seemed to talking about something that involved me a few minutes ago."
There is moment of silence, where Sage looks at Gandalf curiously, trying to read his thoughts but can't. Gandalf also is trying to read Sage's mind. 'Hmmm. Her shields are growing stronger, and I can feel her power increasing,' Gandalf pondered.
"All will revealed in good time," said Gandalf with a smile, "In the mean time, I suggest you go wash up, and get ready to greet your guests because your sixteenth birthday party starts in an hour."
He then leaves the hall, followed by her father. 'I hate it when he says that,' Sage thought, as she turned to wash up, and get ready for her biggest birthday party, the whole village was invited. Sage took a quick bath then went out to her bedroom, and found a bright turquoise dress on her bed. 'It's so gorgeous' Sage thought, before trying it on. When she was done she twirled around in front of the mirror, feeling quite pleased with her look. Sage then brushed her vibrant locks, and put a blue lily above her right ear. She took one final look in the mirror, and thought to herself, 'Your going to knock them dead.'
Sage then slowly opened the door and peered out the window on the other side of the hallway. There were tons of people already there. 'Ok, maybe tons is an exaggeration,' she thought, 'but there were too many there already.' Sage took a deep breath out the door and as she did she had vision. *In a home built in the side of the hill, there were two short people with big feet. Sort of like the halfings from legends. One was obviously older than the other was. The older one said, "It's a dangerous business Frodo, going out of your door. You step onto the road and if you don't keep your feet, there's no telling where you might be swept off to."* 'That was strange,' thought Sage as she walked down to the town square. When she got there her mother began fussing over the fact she was late.
"The party started awhile ago, Sage. It isn't a good thing for the hostess to be late to her own party."
" I know mother, but it is only ten minutes. It is not the end of the world."
Of course that was when the music started and that meant dancing. 'Oh no not dancing. I hate dancing,' Sage thought. Of course her father had already arranged for her to dance with the Clancy boy. They must have danced for ten songs then Sage said she needed to sit down and rest. Clancy of course tried to offer to stay with her, but Sage wanted to be alone. Night was falling, and that meant it was time to eat. Sage didn't eat too much. She wasn't very hungry. Everyone around her was talking, but after a few minutes they became silent. Sage looked over to the head of the table and her father was standing up.
"Ladies and Gentlemen of Esgaroth. As Mayor of the town and father to Sage, I thank you all for coming to tonight's celebration of Sage's sixteenth birthday," boomed her father's voice.
Then a colorful array of colors filled the sky. Immediately, the words "HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAGE," were printed across the dark blanket of the night. Sage smiled happily. 'Gandalf's fireworks! He promised when I was little that one-day I would see them,' she recalled. After many more fireworks including fireflies, and birds. The grand finale was a giant phoenix streaking across the sky. Then when it disappeared over the horizon, it exploded in fireworks of reds, blues, yellows, and greens. After that it was time for the guests to go home. Sage bid everyone of them farewell, and it would end up being farewell for a very long time. When the last guest left, Sage turned homeward so she could go to sleep something she couldn't wait for. When she finally got to the hallway that led to her room. Sage heard someone clear his or her throat in the corner. She whirled around to see it was Gandalf.
"Gandalf! Thank you for such an amazing display of fireworks!" Sage exclaimed before giving Gandalf another hug.
"Your welcome child, but there is something we need to discuss," he said smiling his eyes twinkling like he knew something she did not. Then he continued down the path that Sage was going to take. Sage just blinked a few times in confusion then realizing she should be following him, she tore down the hall to catch up. When they finally reached her room. Gandalf turned around and looked her in the eye. Sage felt something brush through her thoughts but it disappeared as soon as she realized it was there.
"I know this maybe hard for you to understand, and you may have questions but please let me finish before asking them," he remarked quickly before beginning the story. " A long time ago," he began, "There were five protectors of Middle Earth. They were called the Sages. They each protected different elements of the planet, and different peoples of Middle Earth. The Earth sage was the protector of the Elves, Ents, and the other creatures of the forest. His name was Arda. The Fire Sage, Narya, lived within Moria and protected the dwarves. Vilya, The Wind Sage, lived in the clouds, and watched the creatures in the forests south of Gondor. The Water Sage, Nenya, lived along the shores of the rivers, and streams protecting the race of man. Then there was the Sage of the Mind, the youngest of them all. She simply went by Elith, meaning light, and she protected the hobbits. When Sauron came to power he knew that the Sages would be an obstacle. So when he ordered the rings of power to be made he said that their souls were to be trapped in the rings. Narya was the first who was attacked. He was just standing in the fire watching the doors mine for mithril when his soul was sucked out of his body. All this happened right under Narya's nose. Well after his soul was stolen, the Sages heard about it and took precautions. The next who was attacked was Nenya. She was sitting on the edge the river watching the humans, and keeping an eye out for the soul snatcher. Unfortunately that wasn't enough because her soul got snatched right out from under her as well. Again the Sages heard the news and were once again careful. The next to go was Arda. He was in The Fangorn Forest at the time, listening to the trees around him. He however saw the soul snatcher and was able to start casting a spell to protect the elves, and Ents. Unfortunately the spell didn't protect the entwives. Actually it sent them into a black hole, but the Ents don't know this. With only two more Sages left, Sauron knew they would soon be eliminated, and he began to create the ring of power. Vilya was the last to go, and he knew he didn't have much time left. He left his people after casting concealing spell on the forests, and leaving the trees of life to the creatures of the Southern Forests. He moved north towards Gondor, and it was there his soul was stolen, and locked away. Four souls stolen and locked away. Vilya, Nenya, and Narya in the rings later to go to the elves, and Arda's soul was broken apart and placed in the seven dwarf rings. Elith was the only one left she immediately stormed towards Mordor when she ran into a member of the Istari, from the west. He was Mithrandir, better know as Gandalf. I told her that it would be a terrible loss for Middle Earth if the Sages were truly wiped out. Elith said she understood, and then cast a rebirth spell on herself. Her last message was, "Until I return, protect the halfings." And the halfings remain protected. Your probably thinking how this has to do with you, but I assure you it does," said Gandalf with that same twinkle in his eye, "You are Elith , Sage. You are the protector of the hobbits. But you cannot protect them if you can't use your powers."
"When do I start, Gandalf?" Sage questioned. "You start now," he said handing her a spoon, "break it with out touching it physically, and mend it again. Remember this though, 'There is no spoon."
Then he quickly he made his way out the door and down the hall. Sage looked at the spoon for a few minutes then decided to get changed first. She quickly let down her hair and changed out of the dress she had been wearing into her nightgown. Heading back to her bed, and getting ready to go to sleep, she glanced at the spoon in her hand then set it down on the nightstand. She then crawled into bed and went off into dreamland. Just before she did, the image of the spoon in two pieces crossed her mind followed by a snap.
The next morning Sage opened her eyes, and starred at the ceiling for a few minutes and looked back over the events from the previous night. That's when she remembers the spoon. Sage then rolled over.
"How do you break a spoon if you can't touch it, and what does there is no OH MY!" she yelled.
There on her nightstand was the spoon broken in two pieces. She looked closer and noticed they were two perfect pieces. She remembered the image of the spoon broken like this flash across her mind last night, and got an idea. 'Ok Sage, here goes nothing,' she thought as she picture the spoon whole. She opened her eyes and the spoon was whole.
"Wow. This weird but pretty nice," she said to nobody in particular. Then she pictured broken again this time in three pieces. She found it in three pieces.
"I control the spoon, "said Sage as she mended once more then picked it up and went to find Gandalf. She sprinted down the hall and out the door to find him leaving town. Sage ran to catch up to him.
"Gandalf wait! I think I got it," she cried down the road.
Gandalf's cart began to slow until it came to a halt. Then he turned around to look back at Sage running to catch up with him. When she got there she laid down the spoon.
"Watch," she said and focused on the spoon being in two again.
Gandalf watched and sure enough she broke it in two. Then she mended it back together. She was learning quickly. "Good, now try making the spoon float," Gandalf commented.
Sage took a deep breath and focused on the spoon floating. Sure enough it did. She smiled, extremely proud of herself.
"Well it seems that you had the power but you never used it," Gandalf said before adding, "If you hurry you might see some halfings."
Seeing Gandalf smile, Sage darted back into her home, and quickly packed some traveling clothes, food, a cloak, and other traveling necessities. Then she threw some of her precious belongings, a dress, and a couple other changes of clothes into a trunk. She pulled her back into a braid then picked up her bag, levitated the trunk then headed out the door. Gandalf was still down the road waiting. She put her bag and the trunk into the back of his cart, and they were on their way. Sage was saying goodbye to a place she had grown to love but never felt like she belonged. She then turned her gaze to the road ahead.
"So we're headed to The Shire right?" she asked. Gandalf chuckled. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ So do you like? Remember I am a very bad editor and may be missing words and stuff, so you'll have to figure it out. Yeah I know reviewing is really annoying but it helps me make the story more enjoyable for others to read. Thanx!!- Liz