Don't own LOTR, or JRR Tolkein
Look I'm repeating myself. Look I'm repeating myself.
It was several weeks till the great Elven lords came, in that time Charlie kept mostly to herself, reading both the books she herself had and others in the library of the great lady, well she was learning to, the Istari found it a treat to instruct her in the ways of elvish and the other languages, she suddenly found elvish very easy to understand. She would train by herself and would occasionally see and talk to Legolas who kept to the company of his elves.
The elven lords arrived on a fair day and it was then when Charlie found herself reach a sort of epiphany. Walking amongst the trees she reasoned with herself.
"In the books there was no female Istari, Legolas should be traveling with Gimli, and most elves should have departed for Valinor."
She continued noting down the lack of similarities between the world she'd fallen in love with through both the books and the movies, there was an increasing list.
"So I am in middle-earth, but this middle-earth is different from the one I've read about."
It was then when it hit her, mainly because of her old obsession with the TV show 'Sliders'.
"Alternative realities, parallel universe, that is what this is, somehow I've stumbled into a parallel universe of middle-earth, almost the same with a few differences."
With that decision arrived at though Charlie then soon began reasoning though her annoyingly scientific and grounded mind how this could be possibly, with the increasing, why mes' and hows' she decided to let it go as, because.
"Hello Legolas."
She smiled as she passed him and a few other elves as she strolled through the woods, something to do when she found her mind wandering back to earth.
"Charlotte,"
He replied inclining his head to her.
"Have you escaped from your lesson again?"
He questioned with a smile, she'd grown to love the elf dearly as a friend over those few weeks of waiting, but he treated her like a child sometimes.
"No, I have no lessons today, the great lady is in discussion with the two great elven lords, Celeborn and Elrond."
She replied looking at him, luckily for her she had, as yet, escaped from corsets and dresses, clothes and a few robes were parted with for her from the great lady and a few elves. She'd been seen wearing a feminine robe only to see the pants of an elf under them, she was then decidedly viewed as peculiar.
"So you will soon have a home?"
He asked as he walked closer to her departing his elvish companions.
"Hopefully, I would very much like to meet the great Lady Galadriel."
Legolas smiled and nodded to her, Charlie had realized that only the events after the war of the ring had changed, and a few before it, she had yet to decide if that was good or not.
"And you, dear prince, do you not yearn for home?"
He gave her a smile, his blue eyes flashing with mischievousness and nodded.
"I do, I have been asked to escort you as far as I can before I return home."
"It must annoy you, having to stay away from Mirkwood because of me."
Charlie looked around at the trees, surely the two elven lords had brought escort with them, no need for Legolas to stay.
"The Great Lady has informed me to do so and I shall, besides, I have learnt much from you."
Over the few weeks when she had seen him she'd instructed him in some self- defence moves, he would never perform them on her and preferred to use one of his men as a victim to practice on, Charlie was beginning to find chivalry annoying.
"Unarmed I could still beat you."
She baited playfully. He laughed,
"Indeed you could as I would not fight back."
"Legolas you-"
She was about to start an argument when she could hear her name being called, the changed in her were quickly becoming clearer to her, her hair alone looked healthier its dark, black length reflecting those she'd seen on shampoo commercials.
"I'll deal with you later."
The grumbled as she walked off. She quickly found a path and quickening her pace arrived at the bottom of Orthanc is under a minute. There she saw the two great Elven lords, they looked everything like the actors that portrayed them in the movie and so much more, they carried with them something you couldn't put into words. They viewed her, she wore the mismatched garb of the Mirkwood elves, bar the exception of her bra underneath.
"Lady Charlotte, Lord Elrond of Rivendell and Lord Celeborn of The Golden Wood."
The great lady voiced her eyes sparkling with triumph. Charlie curtsied to them, they inclined their heads.
"We have discussed your peculiar circumstances with the Lady of the Istari and through your obvious traits we have decided it would be best if you accompanied me back for a time."
Charlie looked at Lord Elrond, Rivendell? She couldn't believe it.
"If you wish it later you can travel to Lothlorien and live for a time with the Lady Galadriel and Lord Celeborn."
She smiled.
"Thank you, my lords for this, I understand you did not have to offer anything for my accommodation, you truly are magnificent."
They let slip small smiles and nodded.
"When do we depart?"
Charlie asked, she would have to ride on a horse again.
"In a few days, I have taken the liberty of supplying you with both the horse and a side-saddle for you."
It was the first time she'd seen Celeborn speak, bar the movie, personally on the movie she viewed him as a little bit of an elf who smoke too much 'hobbit-weed' but he sound less of a vague drug-addict in 'real' life.
"I thank you for that,"
Charlie suddenly felt very sick inside, she couldn't ride with a normal saddle let alone a side-saddle, not fun.
"The elven lords have also brought appropriate clothing for you."
She smiled and nodded again,
"Forgive my silence, but I am quite overwhelmed."
The Lady of the Istari stepped forward.
"Why not change into one, preferably one that suits riding I'm sure one of Prince Legolas' party will give you a lesson."
Crash course, more like, Charlie though wryly.
She smiled and nodded, she walked up to the room she had and looked at the dresses, quite a few looked too feminine for her, she finally picked out one that was green and white, a sort of linen and leather outfit. The only part that posed a problem was the corset. Luckily it did up at the front and she was able to get herself securely in and placed before she squeezed the contents of her lungs out.
"Wow!"
She said as she finished donning the dress.
"I have cleavage."
Laughing it off to herself, she pulled on the boots that also sat there waiting for her to wear and walked down, she could almost feel the glowing approval at her outfit,
"Much more fitting,"
The lady agreed and gestured for her to go and find one of Legolas' party that she could bully into giving her a lesson, naturally not in those words.
"Hello?"
She called as she reached their horses, there was no one around. She began to go searching for them and found a few lounging around near the river.
"Lady Charlotte! If not for your hair bound up we would have mistaken you for an elven lady."
One said jokingly, she glared at him.
"Do not jest, I feel ridiculous."
She growled as she walked off now decidedly set on getting Legolas to help her out with her riding.
"Legolas?"
She called out finding his tunic near by, he was supposedly further down the river. Charlie then found his undershirt and boots and leggings, he must have gone for either a swim, bath or both.
"Legolas?"
Charlie called out again, a wet blonde head surfaced in the river.
"Yes?"
"Sorry, have I caught you at a bad time?"
She replied embarrassed and blushing.
"It does appear that way, what can I do for you?"
Charlie was suddenly getting raging fan-girl hormones, but was quickly fighting them back. She turned staring at the trees in front of her so she wouldn't dare be tempted to look at him in the water.
"I was wondering if you could teach me how to ride?"
There was a laugh.
"Give me a few minutes to dry and dress and I will meet you where the horses are tethered."
"I shall see you there."
Charlie agreed, walking off and bursting out laughing, was an absurd circumstance.
She walked to the clearing where the horses were and looking at them tried to pick out which one was her, she suddenly viewed a bay stallion,
"Hello."
She whispered to it as she approached it warily, it just looked at her.
"I have an inkling that you are now my horse."
She said getting close enough to pat it and kiss its nose, according to one of her 'horsey' friends horses like that. The horse seemed to agree with her and was quite calm.
"Maybe horses aren't that bad."
The horse threw it head up, maybe he agreed that human/elves weren't that bad either.
It was several weeks till the great Elven lords came, in that time Charlie kept mostly to herself, reading both the books she herself had and others in the library of the great lady, well she was learning to, the Istari found it a treat to instruct her in the ways of elvish and the other languages, she suddenly found elvish very easy to understand. She would train by herself and would occasionally see and talk to Legolas who kept to the company of his elves.
The elven lords arrived on a fair day and it was then when Charlie found herself reach a sort of epiphany. Walking amongst the trees she reasoned with herself.
"In the books there was no female Istari, Legolas should be traveling with Gimli, and most elves should have departed for Valinor."
She continued noting down the lack of similarities between the world she'd fallen in love with through both the books and the movies, there was an increasing list.
"So I am in middle-earth, but this middle-earth is different from the one I've read about."
It was then when it hit her, mainly because of her old obsession with the TV show 'Sliders'.
"Alternative realities, parallel universe, that is what this is, somehow I've stumbled into a parallel universe of middle-earth, almost the same with a few differences."
With that decision arrived at though Charlie then soon began reasoning though her annoyingly scientific and grounded mind how this could be possibly, with the increasing, why mes' and hows' she decided to let it go as, because.
"Hello Legolas."
She smiled as she passed him and a few other elves as she strolled through the woods, something to do when she found her mind wandering back to earth.
"Charlotte,"
He replied inclining his head to her.
"Have you escaped from your lesson again?"
He questioned with a smile, she'd grown to love the elf dearly as a friend over those few weeks of waiting, but he treated her like a child sometimes.
"No, I have no lessons today, the great lady is in discussion with the two great elven lords, Celeborn and Elrond."
She replied looking at him, luckily for her she had, as yet, escaped from corsets and dresses, clothes and a few robes were parted with for her from the great lady and a few elves. She'd been seen wearing a feminine robe only to see the pants of an elf under them, she was then decidedly viewed as peculiar.
"So you will soon have a home?"
He asked as he walked closer to her departing his elvish companions.
"Hopefully, I would very much like to meet the great Lady Galadriel."
Legolas smiled and nodded to her, Charlie had realized that only the events after the war of the ring had changed, and a few before it, she had yet to decide if that was good or not.
"And you, dear prince, do you not yearn for home?"
He gave her a smile, his blue eyes flashing with mischievousness and nodded.
"I do, I have been asked to escort you as far as I can before I return home."
"It must annoy you, having to stay away from Mirkwood because of me."
Charlie looked around at the trees, surely the two elven lords had brought escort with them, no need for Legolas to stay.
"The Great Lady has informed me to do so and I shall, besides, I have learnt much from you."
Over the few weeks when she had seen him she'd instructed him in some self- defence moves, he would never perform them on her and preferred to use one of his men as a victim to practice on, Charlie was beginning to find chivalry annoying.
"Unarmed I could still beat you."
She baited playfully. He laughed,
"Indeed you could as I would not fight back."
"Legolas you-"
She was about to start an argument when she could hear her name being called, the changed in her were quickly becoming clearer to her, her hair alone looked healthier its dark, black length reflecting those she'd seen on shampoo commercials.
"I'll deal with you later."
The grumbled as she walked off. She quickly found a path and quickening her pace arrived at the bottom of Orthanc is under a minute. There she saw the two great Elven lords, they looked everything like the actors that portrayed them in the movie and so much more, they carried with them something you couldn't put into words. They viewed her, she wore the mismatched garb of the Mirkwood elves, bar the exception of her bra underneath.
"Lady Charlotte, Lord Elrond of Rivendell and Lord Celeborn of The Golden Wood."
The great lady voiced her eyes sparkling with triumph. Charlie curtsied to them, they inclined their heads.
"We have discussed your peculiar circumstances with the Lady of the Istari and through your obvious traits we have decided it would be best if you accompanied me back for a time."
Charlie looked at Lord Elrond, Rivendell? She couldn't believe it.
"If you wish it later you can travel to Lothlorien and live for a time with the Lady Galadriel and Lord Celeborn."
She smiled.
"Thank you, my lords for this, I understand you did not have to offer anything for my accommodation, you truly are magnificent."
They let slip small smiles and nodded.
"When do we depart?"
Charlie asked, she would have to ride on a horse again.
"In a few days, I have taken the liberty of supplying you with both the horse and a side-saddle for you."
It was the first time she'd seen Celeborn speak, bar the movie, personally on the movie she viewed him as a little bit of an elf who smoke too much 'hobbit-weed' but he sound less of a vague drug-addict in 'real' life.
"I thank you for that,"
Charlie suddenly felt very sick inside, she couldn't ride with a normal saddle let alone a side-saddle, not fun.
"The elven lords have also brought appropriate clothing for you."
She smiled and nodded again,
"Forgive my silence, but I am quite overwhelmed."
The Lady of the Istari stepped forward.
"Why not change into one, preferably one that suits riding I'm sure one of Prince Legolas' party will give you a lesson."
Crash course, more like, Charlie though wryly.
She smiled and nodded, she walked up to the room she had and looked at the dresses, quite a few looked too feminine for her, she finally picked out one that was green and white, a sort of linen and leather outfit. The only part that posed a problem was the corset. Luckily it did up at the front and she was able to get herself securely in and placed before she squeezed the contents of her lungs out.
"Wow!"
She said as she finished donning the dress.
"I have cleavage."
Laughing it off to herself, she pulled on the boots that also sat there waiting for her to wear and walked down, she could almost feel the glowing approval at her outfit,
"Much more fitting,"
The lady agreed and gestured for her to go and find one of Legolas' party that she could bully into giving her a lesson, naturally not in those words.
"Hello?"
She called as she reached their horses, there was no one around. She began to go searching for them and found a few lounging around near the river.
"Lady Charlotte! If not for your hair bound up we would have mistaken you for an elven lady."
One said jokingly, she glared at him.
"Do not jest, I feel ridiculous."
She growled as she walked off now decidedly set on getting Legolas to help her out with her riding.
"Legolas?"
She called out finding his tunic near by, he was supposedly further down the river. Charlie then found his undershirt and boots and leggings, he must have gone for either a swim, bath or both.
"Legolas?"
Charlie called out again, a wet blonde head surfaced in the river.
"Yes?"
"Sorry, have I caught you at a bad time?"
She replied embarrassed and blushing.
"It does appear that way, what can I do for you?"
Charlie was suddenly getting raging fan-girl hormones, but was quickly fighting them back. She turned staring at the trees in front of her so she wouldn't dare be tempted to look at him in the water.
"I was wondering if you could teach me how to ride?"
There was a laugh.
"Give me a few minutes to dry and dress and I will meet you where the horses are tethered."
"I shall see you there."
Charlie agreed, walking off and bursting out laughing, was an absurd circumstance.
She walked to the clearing where the horses were and looking at them tried to pick out which one was her, she suddenly viewed a bay stallion,
"Hello."
She whispered to it as she approached it warily, it just looked at her.
"I have an inkling that you are now my horse."
She said getting close enough to pat it and kiss its nose, according to one of her 'horsey' friends horses like that. The horse seemed to agree with her and was quite calm.
"Maybe horses aren't that bad."
The horse threw it head up, maybe he agreed that human/elves weren't that bad either.