By Lily Martin
Rated R
Category: Romance/Adventure/Supernatural/
Spoilers: Buffy--everything's cannon Angel--Faith going to Sunnydale (it's not out yet in the Buffy verse when I'm writing this) Lord of the Rings--everything's cannon, but it starts in the Fellowship of the Ring when they're on the watch tower and the Ringwraiths come. For LOTR it's a mix of movie and book (I'm almost through the Council of Elrond in the book).
Summary: Buffy is summoned to Middle-Earth by Gandalf, by some fluke the rest of the Scooby Gang transported also. Then the third slayer Madeline Naur comes after them with Giles, now all we're missing is Faith...wait...nope...she'll be there too...all there just in time to join the Fellowship. Throw in a prophecy and a really messed up plot...
Disclaimer: ok, so this is how it went, I was watching this poker game; I don't even know how to play poker, so I was just watching. Joss Whedon and Christopher Tolkien (the guy who now owns LOTR) were both playing with a bunch of other random producers and publishers. Suddenly, the game turned to Gin Rummy, now I don't wanna brag or anything, but no matter how bad I am at all card games, Gin Rummy is the one game I'm the master at. So I bugged them until they finally agreed to let me play. We'd been playing a while, the stakes were getting high. Joss was down on cash, so he put both Buffy and Angel on the table, now, Chris didn't like being shown up, so he put all rights to Lord of the Rings down, me, with nothing to give, put my brand new laptop down, the cards were dealt out, and in my hand I held the perfect hand, all four queens, the king, jack and ten of spades, and the ace, two, and three of hearts. TBC...
A/N: Hey, I hope to get this out today (Friday). If not, sorry for the one or two day wait (I love sarcasm). This should explain a few things, hope you like it, some of it might be a little fluffy, it shouldn't be but it might. Also, I've decided to go mostly with just the book, but there will be remnants of the movie seeing as I have yet to finish the book (still reading the Council of Elrond, it's a really, really long chapter), so, please, don't forget, reviews help me write faster. One more thing, sorry if people are a little OOC (from the Buffy verse, those from LOTR should be fine) just think of it as, it's been two years of peace, they've had time to come back down to earth and relax a little. ^_-
Pairings: Buffy/Aragorn, Faith/Boromir (while he's alive, if you think about it, they do kinda fit together), Dawn/Frodo (very subtle in this part, little things mostly, not even kissing...I don't think, I have yet to figure it out yet), and Legolas/OC, in the beginning it will be Aragorn/Arwen, only cause that's got to be done to start off...though, on my OC's pairing, just after my last post, I moved into a strange Glorfindel induced obsession...^_-
Feedback: nothing as of the moment I'm writing this chapter, if anything comes in before I post, your answers will be at the end of the chapter this time.
Chapter 4
An hour later, Buffy stood up, trying to shake the sleep away. The sky was dimly lit from the rising sun, and Strider was attempting to wake the Hobbits, unsuccessfully at that. She laughed and he looked up with a slight glare.
"You try, then," he told her.
"Ok," she shrugged.
She attempted al the conventional ways of waking someone up. They didn't work, so more drastic ways had to be taken. She went over to the one they called 'Pippin.' He was snoring softly, sound asleep without a pillow or blanket (she'd already taken those in an attempt to wake him up). So, in a last effort she picked up by the ankle and held him upside down a few feet off the ground that way.
"Put me down, I tell you, put me down this minute," Pippin started screaming, waking up everyone who'd been asleep. "Unhand me this instant."
And she did, gently, of course. Dawn started giggling, soon moving onto full blown laughter, joined by everyone else, except Pippin, who was still angry.
All during breakfast, Strider looked uneasy, and, right after, he told them to get everything together, they would be leaving as soon as possible.
"You gonna leave the hammer, Buff?" Dawn asked as they started walking.
"No," replied Buffy simply, a small frown on her face.
"I was just saying, it must weigh a ton," Dawn told her, feeling the need to defend her statement.
"Yeah, so?" Buffy answered.
"Estel might not like it if we hinder the journey to Imladris," Willow put in, making Strider look at her quickly at the mention of his Elvish name. She quickly told him, "I thought it better to use your Elvish name rather than your real name, 'cause they're not supposed to know yet, and Strider doesn't really fit you."
He only nodded, not even pretending to know where she got her knowledge, deciding it was better to take these new comers to Imladris to speak with Elrond and Gandalf.
"Not that Estel fits you any better," Anya said bluntly. "In our world it's a girl's name."
"Actually it's spelled differently," Willow told her.
"Oh, well, so, there are a bunch of ways to spell all kinds of names," Any answered quickly.
"Ignore them; it's a good name, there isn't enough hope in the world, especially this one," Dawn told him, coming to walk along side him, as the rest continued on to more interesting topics.
"A, lle isto o edhellen," he said glancing at her.
"A friend was teaching me back home, she taught me Sindarin, a little bit of Quenya, and we were working on translating the Black Speech," Dawn said, happy to have someone listening in some interest, besides Mady, for once. Seeing the look that passed over his face when she said 'Black Speech,' she quickly added, "Just how to translate it, not how to speak it."
"You can speak Elvish?" Buffy asked, suddenly, walking right behind her.
"Yeah, Mady taught me," she said as though it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"Mady knows Elvish?"
"Yeah, what are you, having a hard time believing this?"
"Dawn, we don't have Elves in our world."
"Internet," Dawn said, as though it were the most obvious thing in the world. "They've made it possible to learn pretty much every language from Tolkien's books, Mady learned it from there, and then taught me."
~Elsewhere~
Glancing around, she saw that she was in a beautiful room, intricate carvings adorning the walls and ceiling. She was sitting at a small dressing table looking at a reflection of herself in the mirror. She had a comb in her hand, having obviously been in the middle of combing out her long pale blond hair. She was in Imladris, having been there many times, this wasn't a new scene to her. Though it was kind of strange going from being comforted by Faith for some reason in, what she supposed to be, Mordor, to combing her hair halfway across Middle-earth.
The door suddenly flew open, and an elf with long golden hair plated tightly rushed in. He was dressed for travel, his green tunic and leggings dirty and torn in several places.
"What was so important you had to come running here the moment you arrived?" she asked, no control over what she did or said, with a smile and a small laugh, which quickly died at the expression on his face. "What is it?"
"I have news of Lady Galfaen," he told her.
"You've found her, is she alright?" she started asking hopefully.
"Tári, I'm sorry, she has passed. She was caught by a group of orcs," he explained.
"But...that's not possible, sh-she could have gotten away, sh-she's done it before," she began rambling. Then, a brick of realization must have hit her; she shook her head, trying to get him to tell her otherwise, meekly she said, "No, it's not true."
"There were a hundred of them, they were traveling north, we think, we arrived in time to kill them, but it was too late to help her," he continued, pulling her into his arms as she started crying. Adding, just barely over a whisper, "We tried, tithen Tári, we tried."
"Thank you," she said, her voice muffled by his chest, and that's what Giles heard as he walked through the door into the dinning room, her mumbling, "Thank you, Glorfindel. Thank you."
She'd face planted right into one of her books, having missed out on sleep the night before, saying something like, 'Elves don't sleep, we meditate, and I'm fully rested, so I'll be fine.' Of course that had been just after she'd translated that passage for him the previous morning, now it was the next day nearing evening, and she'd been working since then trying to find away back, and then trying to track down her crystal, which had gone missing when she'd arrived two years ago and she happened to need it to get back.
He went over to her, dropping the stuff he'd gone out to get on the table, and tried to pull the book out from under her head. She continued mumbling other things, as she picked up her head, giving him enough time to get the book away, and then moved her arm so that she could comfortably rest her head, her hair falling on his hand, before he had a chance to fully pull it away. He was slightly startled by her hair, he hadn't gotten a good look at it before, but it was really a blond, surrounded in fire. From even a few feet away it appeared to be fiery red, but was actually just something else, an energy of sorts, that explained the strange hair coloring uncommon among Elves.
He immediately went about getting something to eat, as there wasn't much he could do till she woke up and explained what needed to be done.
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Translations:
Ah, you have knowledge of Elvish, [i.e. you know Elvish (A/N: sometimes my translations have to be very rough as I can't find the exact wording, also, just so you know, Tolkien's Elvish languages are all very basic.)]Aragorn/Strider
Galfaen means radiant, white light
Tithen means little
A/N: I found this site that translates names into Elvish names (if you want to know it, just ask) and I typed in Madeline Naur, just so I could find out what her name would be, the result was Tári Eledhwen, Tári means queen, and don't ask me what Eledhwen means cause Naur is actually the Sindarin word for fire or flame, so that's her Elvish name, Tári Eledhwen, even though Tári is the beginning of her title, so, hope you understand.
Feedback:
Alwaysanangelgurl: thanks, I try and keep them coming as soon as possible
Dark Wolf: I noticed that, and when they do have songs, they aren't background music (like a suggestion of what to be listening to while reading it, that's kind of how I think of the songs I put in, or like what would be playing if it were acted out or something) they're sung by some person who sings it perfectly, and when it's a lotr they're usually a human singing it perfectly, and that just isn't right seeing as Elves are the ones that sing perfectly, anyways...it annoys me when people don't translate the Elvish in their stories and they expect you to do it yourself (I'm also the lazy person who won't get off their ass to do it) the guys on the bus were mostly Faith's as the show only really gave Buffy 3 boyfriends, though I'm not sure if Spike would count, but they did portray Faith as someone who'd probably had had a lot of boyfriends, so I kinda used that to my advantage.
Amanda: thanks, actually there are a few Buffy/lotr x-overs (though most end up with a Willow relationship and I don't read those) they just haven't updated in over a week or so, but the ones I've read are good, the ones where Buffy crosses over that is.