Disclaimer: I don't own the Lord of the Rings. I only own so far Aerin, Marille, and Aerin's mom.

I've made some changes to this chapter, one major change being her name sorry.

'My thoughts'

Horse talking

"Speech"

Chapter 1: Where am I?

I landed with a loud 'THUD' on a patch of dirt. "What on earth just happened?" I stood up and brushed the dirt off of my short denim skirt and my half-jean jacket. All my things had fallen with me.

"Two suitcases, one duffle bag, my purse, and guitar case all in one piece." I said out loud. 'At least I have all of my stuff, but where am I?'

I guess you're probably wondering how I got here, and why I have all of this stuff with me. I'll try to explain.

Flashback, 10 minutes ago

"Rin, honey hurry up and find Marille, so we can take her to Agnes." My mom called from the bottom of the stairs. "Come on, we could be halfway to Mordor by now."

My mom is majorly obsessed with Lord of the Rings. She says she has been since she had to read it in high school. That's how she got my name, and I've grown to love it. My name is Aerin Almare Sanderson, and I am a witch. Of course only my family and close friends know but it's really fun to be able to do things at the snap of a finger. My mom has always said that being a witch wasn't the only special thing about me, but she would never tell what the other thing was, so I've just stopped asking altogether. She also wanted to name my dog. I wanted to name my beautiful golden retriever 'Rita', but she said she translate it and give her an elven name. What normal person would name their dog 'Marille'? But I agreed. I've had Marille for two months now, and on this very important day I can't find that damned dog anywhere.

Leave it up to her to make us late for our flight to Rome. For my seventeenth birthday , which passed last week, my mom was taking me to Rome, 'la cita eterna'. I've wanted to go there for as long as I can remember, and this was my chance. Two weeks ust my mom and I. it would be great if I could find Marille.

"I'm looking mom. I'll find her in two seconds. Just wait." I yelled back.

Then I heard it. A scuffling sound coming from under my bed.

"Now where could Marille be?" I said in a sweet voice.

I crouched down, with my guitar case strap still on my shoulder and my bags next to me.

I saw her under there. She wasn't frightened or angry, just being that stubborn dog that she is. She basically refused to come out. She may have been just a small puppy, but she was very smart. She knew what was going on. She knew that would have to stay with my aunt Agnes for two weeks. Well, she didn't know exactly, but she could tell by all the packing and preparing that we were going somewhere, and she wasn't going to be all to come with us.

"It's okay girl. It's only for two weeks, and if it helps I'll email you everyday." I joked. She still wouldn't budge.

"Uh I knew I should've gotten a ca…" I got distracted by a faint light shinning underneath the floor board next to Marille.

"What is that?" I asked out loud. I grabbed Marille and pulled her out from under the bed before reaching for the floor board. I don't know why, but as soon as my hand came close to it it got brighter, and brighter.

Almost as if it was begging me, I slowly started to pry up the floor board. Immediately after it was completely up I was engulfed by blinding white light.

Then without warning I felt like I was falling through the white light, endlessly. I couldn't feel my body. I couldn't feel my fingers. I couldn't even let out a scream. Then it was over, as quickly as it began. I landed very uncomfortably in a forest. But there were no forests like this in San Francisco. I had no idea what to do.

End Flashback

And here I am surrounded by a few of my belongings. Sitting on a suitcase, on a mound of dirt. This place seemed annoyingly familiar, I just couldn't put my finger on it. Maybe if…

A horse, a startling black horse, galloped out of the trees coming right at me. I got up and stepped to the side to let the horse pass, but to my surprised it came to an abrupt halt right beside me. I had to keep from screaming when it spoke to me, inside my mind.

"You are the one." It said, obviously a female.

"Excuse me?" I managed to say back out loud.

"The jewelry you wear, it is proof that you are the one." It replied calmly.

"Oh you mean my charm bracelet?" I asked gesturing towards the gold chain on my wrist that had a few charms on it: a horse, a bow and arrow, a book, a sword, an angel (or at least what I thought was an angel), and a crescent moon.

"Yes that, and the necklace." The horse said.

My necklace was on a similar larger chain, but it only had one charm on it; the angel. With a large ruby on the body of the angel, and a small diamond on the head. It was a rather large charm, a much bigger angel than the one on the bracelet.

"My necklace, and my charm bracelet. I have them both since I was born. Now I'm officially freaked out. Not only are you talking to me inside my head, you're calling me 'the one'. 'The one' what?" I asked.

"You will learn soon young one. We will meet again soon, sooner than you think. Here give me your things, I will keep them safe until you need them." She offered.

"I don't know. I want to keep them." I said.

"You have a long way to travel, they will only weigh you down." She explained.

"Oh alright. But I want you to keep my guitar safe." I said.

"I will." She said.

Once I got all of my things strapped securely on her she turned back to me.

"Could you tell me where I am, and how you know where I need to travel?" I asked.

"I believe deep down you already know where you are. "She replied and turned and galloped off.

"Wait. What is your name?" I shouted to the retreating figure.

"I am known as Valaine." It said then she kept going and disappeared far from my sight. I was surprised that I could see it off that far.

And that horse reminded me of someone, but it couldn't possibly be who I was thinking of. That would be impossible. And her name it's different.

Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I had become just as obsessed with Lord of the Rings as my mom over the years. Valaine. It was an elvish name. It meant something like divine or immortal, or both. I finally knew where I was.

"Oh my god, I'm in Middle Earth." I said quietly. Shock written all over my face.

TBC

I know it sucked, but I'm bad at opening up stories. But please read and review.