Oooooh. Not mine. Not much left now folks….
Telling Stories.
I took another deep breath. "Nevermind ignore what I just said, I'm just nervous y'know, public speaking and all that always gets to me, I just can't seem to…"
"Enough!" Thundered Aragorn. I stopped my babbling. "Now. Explain."
"Okay well, we have to go back to the beginning. It all started when I came here to err, meet Legolas…"
***
"WHAT?!"
"THIS CANNOT BE!"
"WHO AMONGST THEM WOULD DO SUCH A THING?"
I sighed. The revelations had not gone well. Not that I had expected them to go smoothly, but as I had only just revealed that Thingaladion was human and had a spell cast upon him to try and assassinate Veborion and I still had a heck of a long way to go was not good. Not counting the fact that now the elves and humans were casting glares that could have frozen the fires of Mount Doom.
"Look…" I trailed off realising that they weren't listening to me. "Listen…" Well that didn't work either. I took a deep breath, my anger building at being ignored. Patience has never been one of my strong points. I took another deep breath. "DAMMIT WILL YOU ALL JUST SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO ME?!"
***
After my little outburst the leaders had calmed down. Not that I blamed them mind. I was not someone you'd want to face in a fight with the whole 'Mary Sue' thing going on after all. But now came the moment of real revelation.
"… You see I finally figured it out when I looked down and saw my feet." I paused and took a sip of some water that had been brought to me.
"Feet?" Aragorn questioned leaning forward in his chair. "How so?"
"Well I knew there was something familiar about the creatures that wanted to wipe out the elves, but I couldn't remember. Then when I saw my feet I remembered." I took another sip of my drink before placing it back down on the small table that had been brought out at the same time as the water.
"As I saw my feet I realised that the creatures behind the plot were hobbits."
***
There I thought. How's that for a bit of a shock. I grinned inwardly as I saw the expressions of disbelief on the leaders' faces. Eventually it was Aragorn who spoke.
"I do not believe these lies of the fangirl." He stated glaring down at me. "We all know the bravery of the hobbits from the destruction of the ring. There must be another reason for their actions. They must have been bewitched!"
I didn't flinch. "I never questioned the ones who helped with that." I stated. "But there are others."
"Frodo would never do something like this…" Aragorn continued ignoring my words.
"Not Frodo." I interrupted Aragorn firmly. "Lotho."
***
It was Elrond who recovered first. "WHY?" he asked before realising he had another question, "AND HOW?"
"Well, at the end of the books it makes out as though Lotho got killed by Wormtongue right? But you never see any evidence. Saruman lied. He claimed Lotho was dead whilst all the time he had been imparting his knowledge to the hobbit, intending to use Lotho as one of his loyal servants once chaos had overtaken Middle Earth."
"But the ring was destroyed…" Aragorn interrupted. "There would be no chaos, Middle Earth would have been rebuilt."
"Ahh yes, but you're forgetting something. The books."
"Books?" Thranduil queried. "What do the books have to do with all this?"
"Saruman planned it. Planned it all. Lotho would change what Bilbo's book really said, like changing Legolas from a female to a male. In doing so, Saruman knew that people from another world would become interested in Middle Earth and some would send themselves here in the guise of fangirls…"
"Ahh, the 'Sues'." Eomer commented.
"Exactly." I said pleased that someone had finally understood. "Eventually, Middle Earth would be overrun by the 'Sues' and chaos would reign. All Saruman had to do was wait for it to happen. Unfortunately for him, he died before it did."
"And Lotho?" Asked Aragorn.
"Lotho just carried out his old master's wishes. He had to pretend to be dead otherwise Frodo and the others might have noticed what he was doing, using magic to change what the book containing the stories of the hobbit and the lord of the rings to be changed. Once he started he figured he'd just carry on, except he would be the ruler of Middle Earth, not his dead master Saruman."
***
"Incredible." Commented Aragorn as I came to the end of my explanations.
I smiled at Aragorn's approval.
"Unbelievable." Eomer said.
I grinned at Eomer's look of awe.
"Amazing." Elrond murmured.
I almost laughed out loud at Elrond's admiring glances.
Thranduil smiled. "Is not my daughter-in-law wonderful?"
I gaped. I'd forgotten about that.
Idiot.
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Ohh! Lots of revelations! Everyone up on who Lotho is? Don't know? Read the book dammit! Still one more chapter to go! What will happen to all the 'Sues'? What will happen with me and Vebby? And hey whatever happened to old Sindy? *Grins* all will be revealed in the next one….
