Lizzie POV
Middle Earth. For a lot of people this place is just a fantasy world that you can't get to even if you paid a millon dollars. For me, it was a place to get away from the world that I lived in. At night, when my parents weren't fighting, I would curl up and read my favorite books in the world by J.R.R Tolkien. But when my house shook with my parent's anger, it was nice to slip into someone elses world and get their sympathy. Frodo, Legolas, Merry, Pippin and all the others smiled at me from my covers and said, "Forget yourself, come with us." But I'm getting away with myself. I do that a lot.
My name is Elizabeth. Sometimes called Lizzie, Liz, whatever. I was a junior in High School when I decided to take a walk through town. My father was drunk and asleep upstairs and I knew better than to make noise and wake him up. I walked a few blocks away from my house and found myself in the clean part of town. The lawns were all cut, the trees trimmed. Cars parked in the garages, recycling and trash in handy boxes. I smiled to myself. Hmm, this was way better than where I lived. I quickly walked the block and moved onto the next one. I wrapped my coat tightly around myself because it had gotten slightly colder since my walk had started.
"That's odd," I said out loud. It was Texas where I lived and this year had been oddly warm for winter.
The temperature dropped and the drizzle turned to heavy snow.
Wait! This is Texas! How is this happening? I shrugged. What did I care? As soon as it stopped, I would get to make a snowman. I kept on walking but the storm didn't let up.
'Oh dear.' I thought. 'I shan't be getting home anytime soon.' I walked until I was sure that I was on my own block, but then I realized, I wasn't in my town anymore. The storm had stopped but there were no houses to be seen! There wasn't even snow on the ground! I quickly unzipped my jacket but the zipper stuck. I concentrated on it but kept on walking.
Unfortunately, a tree jumped out in front of me.
"Ow." The jacket came off and I deposited it on the ground.
"Hmm, wonder where I am." I felt of the trees and the grass. "Odd, it looks just like Lorien in Lord of the Rings." I laughed. Maybe the storm had brought me to New Zealand. Yessss! Now I could go meet Karl Urban (Eomer) and then he could let me meet Orlando Bloom! A bit of spit started flooding my mouth at the thought.
"Who are you?" A voice inside my head said. "I am Galadriel and you are in my lands, Elizabeth."
"Oh Lord. Oh boy." I breathed slowly as I figured out where I was but stopped and smiled. "Hee hee, well now at least I can buy a costume and not have to make one. I've always wanted a red one. Or maybe a black one with red-"
"Will you stop talking about clothes and listen to me?" Galadriel's voice made me shut up. "I know where you come from and I know where your friend is."
"I know what it is you saw." I said, imitating her line. I just couldn't resist.
"Oh, skip it." She said. I felt myself falling and I fell on someone.
"What the--?? Elizabeth?"
"Neveth!" I was stunned. I had never seen Neveth in person before. "Wow! Looking good."