Author's Note: A little note I add onto the end of every fic I write just sums up the work much better, I think, and what writing means to me. Writing means a lot. Next to music, it's one of the most important things in my life, and I love it. :) I love writing in all forms, all shapes and sizes, all styles, and flavors.

As for the Lord of the Rings, as a reader it changed my life, and as a movie, it took me away to a world where dreams are reality. A month after I saw the movie, my friends(who are die-hard Legolas, Orlando Bloom fans) urged me to write a fic involving the character of our dear elf-boy. I wasn't much of a fan, until I started writing him, and as I learned more of the elven ways through my research, I began to respect their race much more, their language, their culture, all make-believe, and yet so real in Tolkien's world. I took the character of Kira as not really a person who lived in Middle-earth because she knew nothing of it, but a person suddenly brought into a world of unbelievable fantasy, yet reality for her.

And what a great day this has been! The The Fellowship of the Ring out on VHS and DVD! One movie to rule them all it certainly is!

People have asked me for more LOTR fanfiction, since this is the only one I've written. I actually wrote a Harry Potter/LOTR parody(the two blend nicely together, actually) for my friends who are strictly divided between the two. Why can't all the wizarding worlds just live together, I ask you? I've started a fic with Frodo called The Sixth of October and it's first two chapters are up now. For those of you who liked I' Mal Lasse, I think you will also like Frodo's story. :)

Thanks so much to the people who have read, and/or reviewed my fic! I cannot say thanks enough to you! And special thanks to PuterPatty who convinced me to repost this story in chapters, using a new word processor so more of you could read it who originally missed the messy, looooong version of I' Mal Lasse. Thank you!

-Ista of the Dreamers