Author's Note: This story is about the elf Legolas, who returns to Middle Earth during modern times to see what changes have occurred. It is set in about 1999, and the books exist but the films obviously don't yet, and so Lord of the Rings isn't as greatly well known as it is now. This story is about the changes Legolas goes through, and how he adjusts to the present time. Obviously he will meet OCs, but I am totally not going to do any Mary Sue stuff, I've got no interest in writing that. Legolas isn't going to 'get with' anyone, but he's going to make some friends because I doubt he could survive the modern age alone. Hope you enjoy it, and I hope that I finish it! Take care.

(Disclaimer - Legolas does not belong to me (sadly), and neither does anything to do with 'the Lord of the Rings'. The OC are mine, however. Modern day England isn't. )

Prologue:

Far back into the depths of time, there was once an age of darkness from which was born a ring. One great ring, encompassing the power to rule all,
One ring to rule them all
One ring to find them
One ring to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them
The one Ring was made and held by the dark lord Sauron, until in a great battle for the freedom of Middle Earth against the forces of darkness, it came to another. Isildur, son of the King, took his father's sword when he fell and cut the Ring from the dark lord's hand. A troubled run of events led the Ring to the hands of the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins, and from there it came under the attention of the great wizard Mithrandir, known to most as Gandalf. It was he who revealed the terrible history of the Ring, which begun the most perilous quests of all time. The task of destroying the Ring was given to the nephew of Bilbo, a young Frodo Baggins, who appointed himself to carry the Ring into the heart of the black lands of Mordor, and cast it into the fires of Mount Doom. He set off from the House of Rivendell, and with him came eight others, eight companions. Amongst them was Samwise Gamgee, a loyal hobbit who dearly loved Frodo. There was also the great man Aragorn son of Arathorn, a great warrior and noble, who fought bravely and who was loved by many. He finally claimed his rightful place as King, and married Arwen Evenstar, fair elf-maiden, who sacrificed her immortality for him. The other members of the Fellowship were the two brave Hobbits, Meriadoc and Peregrin, the man Boromir of Gondor who perished whilst bravely fighting the Uruk-Hai, the dwarf Gimli, the fair elf Legolas, Prince of Mirkwood, and the great wizard Gandalf. With these companions, Frodo walked his dark path, and the trials he and the rest of the Fellowship faced on their journey can be read of in the great tales of The Lord of the Rings. This is a great literary masterpeice, compiled from the journals of both Bilbo and Frodo, and the great tales of the old folk from Middle Earth, now presented to this modern world as a fantasty.
All who read these tales may be briefly touched by the glimpse of this powerful and alien world, some may treasure moments of Frodo's quest for the rest of their lives. None know the one most important fact about these tales - they are true.
None of the Fellowship now survive, save one. Only one of them had the gift of immortality, the elf Legolas. In the year of 1521, following the death of the King Elessar, Legolas built a ship in Ithilien and sailed over the Sea, and with him went the other surviving member of the Fellowship, his dear friend Gimli. After many years within the West, Gimli passed on, and Legolas spent countless ages in mourning, finally recovering himself to continue a life that felt lonely after his time as a member of the Fellowship. For over a thousand more years, he carried out his existence, until at last the time came when he knew he must return to the land of Middle Earth, to see how it had changed, or how much remained the same.
This tale tells of Legolas, last member of the great Fellowship, of his contact with the changes the world had gone through, and the changes he himself then experienced.