I do not own any of the characters...or things mentioned in this story.

"Any sign of Jack at all Mr. Gibbs?" Anna-Maria had appeared behind Mr. Gibbs looking very worried. "Not a trace of 'im at all. 'S like he disappeared off the face of the earth..." Anna-Maria had a stern look on her face, "Since you'll be takin the orders, where do we propose we go?" Gibbs thought about it for a moment and decided to check Port Royal, just to see if he was captured, or visiting the Turners. "Head to Port Royal." Anna-Maria turned around and gave the orders to the crew.

Jack woke up to a familiar voice, but didn't dare open his eyes, because the last time he did that, and orc was staring at him, practically drooling on him. "He's been out for 2 days, we can't wait much longer," Jack suddenly felt a wave of relief when he remembered that the voice belonged to one of the short people the old man called a "hobbit".

With that bit of good information, Jack opened his eyes only to see the blazing sun, and shut them again. "LOOK! He's awake!" Jack opened his eyes, and this time was prepared for the bright light from the window, and saw another unfamiliar hobbit pointing in his direction.

"Ughh...where am I?" Gandalf spoke slowly so Jack could easily understand, "You are in the land of Lorien, home of Lady Galadriel, and the elves." Jack thought over for a minute and decided nothing in that sentence made sense, but then again nothing in the past few days has really made any sense at all.

"Umm...what exactly is an elf, who is Lady Galadriel, and where is Lorien?" Gandalf smiled sympathetically at Jack and answered, "First of all, this is an elf," He pointed to Legolas standing on the other side of the bed. Legolas smiled and greeted himself, "My name is Legolas, I'm sorry about all of this, it must be very confusing." Jack made a disgruntled expression, "You've no idea...." Gandalf once again smiled sympathetically at Jack.

"Well then I know what a hobbit, an elf, and an orc is...and those things that are Sauron's spies....." Jack trailed off leaving the room in silence until Gimli spoke, "And now you know what a Dwarf is too! I'm Gimli, and I was just wondering what your name would be," Jack had just realized that these people...things...whatever they were still didn't know his name.

"Oh...My name is Capt......I mean Jack Sparrow" Jack had given up all hope of getting his ship back, and had faced the fact that he would have to get used to this world.

"Jack...never heard of such a name. You must be one of a kind," Jack noticed a man standing in the doorway, and recognized him from the battle. "My name's Aargorn, it's an honor to meet you," Jack got confused again. Why did this man think it was an honor to meet him?

"I'm Pippin, this is Merry, and you've already met Sam and Frodo." Jack simply said "pleased" and remembered his first mate Mr. Gibbs because of his heavy Scottish accent, or whatever it was now.

"Alright, here's another question," Jack continued, "Obviously this is not the same time or place as my world, so when, or where am I in?" Gandalf answered him like he had the answer written down in front of him, "Again, you are in Lorien, which is in Middle Earth, and it is the year 1403, in the forth age of this world."

A/N I don't know if you remember from the movie, but at the end, Frodo said it was the beginning of the forth age. Just to clear some things up if you got confused...

Jacks eyes widened at what he had just heard, "Th...the forth age?!" Gandalf smiled to show him that it was true. "Why am I here?" Gandalf's smile wiped from his face. He had decided earlier that Jack was not yet ready to know the truth. Not yet ready to know that he possessed more power than any other being has ever had. He was not yet ready to know that he would fight Sauron, and one would die, and he certainly was not yet ready to know that his fate was either death, or king.

"Well?" Jack had been sitting there waiting for an answer, "I do not know why you are here, but I am sure that you are destined to be here, and that is an encouraging thought,"

Frodo looked up at Gandalf, remembering when he had said those same words to him when he was the important one in the adventure. He knew how much pain Jack would soon be in.

"What are those rings that Sauron was talking about?" From that moment on, Gandalf knew that it was going to be a long night, because Legolas had just begun telling the story about the rings, and back during the first time Sauron created the one ring.

Jack listened all evening, and night long to the story, and suddenly had a great deal of respect for the people sitting in front of him. Then he finally realized that all that power and madness that caused all these stories was a part of him. He realized what Sauron was talking about, and he finally understood why he had some much more power than before.

Sam was finishing up the story, "And so Frodo left with the elves, and Me, Merry, and Pippin went back to the shire." Frodo sat listening to the stories happy ending, wondering why Jack had some much concern, and fear in his eyes, but his question was shortly answered.

"How do I have this power....in me?" Everybody stared at Jack in silence, wondering how he figured that much out. Gandalf did not want him to know anymore and lied once again, "Like I said, none of us know...we didn't even know you had this power," but Jack was trickier than he thought, "Then why did you come and rescue me!?!" Jack was beginning to get angry at the fact that nobody would tell him what was going on. Gandalf answered once more, "We knew that you were able to use the power, but we did not know that you already had it, and how you got it. We rescued you because everything's worth a try when you're fighting against Sauron." Gandalf was really hoping that Jack would believe him this time, and to his relief, Jack looked at him as though he believed him.

Legolas spoke again, "We should leave him to rest, I'm sure he's had a long past few days." With that, everybody left Jack in his room, alone, and filled with more questions that he could keep track of.

He unfortunately didn't have a good sleep that night, and dreamt of Sauron, and his ring. But this time, Jack was wearing the ring, with even more madness in his eyes than usual. Then the ring disappeared into his very blood, with the evil of the ring running through his veins. He knew that somehow, that same evil power lived inside of him, just waiting to take a hold of him.