A/N: This is an OC falls into Middle Earth. Hopefully it's not to terribly repetitive.
Disclaimer: I also don't own Lord of the Rings.
One day in the middle of Autumn, the sun filtered down through the trees to shed light on a small cabin. This cabin sat in a small valley high in the mountains, surrounded by a forest. It was the only building, besides the small farm building next to it, with in miles. The cabin was worn down wood that had ivy growing up it.
In it lived two young women, Thalia and Aroanna. These two were sisters, and had lived in the Cabin since they were babies.
Thalia was the older sister, at twenty-three years old, she made sure that everything ran smoothly. From making sure that they had enough food and clothes to making sure that their animals were alive and healthy all year round or keeping the cabin well maintained so it didn't collapse in on them, Thalia was the responsible one.
Aroanna was the younger sister, at eighteen years old, she was adventurous. While she helped to make sure things worked well around the cabin, it was more likely that you'd find her off in the woods exploring or honing her hunting skills.
The only time Thalia didn't have to hunt Aroanna down to do her chores was on the day of their last camping trip of the year. It was on this very day that you could find Aroanna on the side of the yard chopping the last of the wood that they would need for the long winter ahead of them.
Aroanna heaved a sigh as she pushed her curly raven hair back to wipe the sweat off her brow. She and Thalia were working as fast and hard as they could to get their cabin ready for the upcoming long winter. She finished cutting the last of the wood and started to gather it up to pile up on the wood pile. She hoped that Thalia was almost done with her chores so that the two girls could saddle up their horses and leave as soon as Aroanna was done.
"Hey Ro, you done yet? I wanna get on the trail, try and make it as far up the mountain as we can tonight so we beat the weather." Thalia yelled from somewhere around the back of the cabin.
"Yeah. Just piling the last of the wood. Do you have our packs and Horses ready?" Aroanna called back as she dumped the last of the cut wood onto their firewood pile. There was a moment of silence and just as Aroanna was turning around to see if she could see her sister, her voice said
"Yep. Lets go." From directly behind her, startling her so bad she practically leaped into the wood pile.
"Jee wiz Lia, give me a heart attack why don't you." Aroanna grumbled as she brushed the wood off her pants and gave her sister a weak glare. Thalia's forest green eyes glittered mischievously as she looked at her younger sister.
"And I thought you had the amazing skills of an expert hunter so you couldn't get snuck up on." She teased. Aroanna grumble, her own silvery greys eyes starting to get their own mischievous look to them.
"I wasn't paying attention. But I will race you to the camping ground as soon as we leave." Thalia smiled and pulled her curly fiery red hair back into a pony tail before agreeing.
"Alright. But no cheating this time. Come on. Ebony and Philip are ready for us out front." Aroanna nodded and jogged out to the front.
"Did you grab my bow and arrows?" Thalia rolled her eyes as she followed her around to the front.
"Of course. Didn't need you to throw a fit about it before we left." Aroanna spun around with an offended look on her face.
"I don't throw fits!" Thalia gave her a look of disbelief as she mounted her brown Clydstale Philip.
Aroanna huffed and mounted her own black Clydstale Ebony and lead her over to the designated start spot for when she and her sister wanted to race.
"Come on slow poke. I'm gonna win." She called back. She heard Thalia snort as she pulled her horse up to her.
"In your dreams." She muttered. "On three?" Aroanna nodded and got ready
"One-two-th-" Aroanna interrupted her as she took off laughing
"GO!"
"HEY! YOU CHEATER!" she heard Thalia call as she continued on racing up the trail. As she raced as fast as she could until she couldn't hear Thalia anymore. She looked behind her and slowed down a bit.
"Thalia?! Where are you?" she heard a startled scream and she turned Ebony around and started back, "Thalia! Thalia what happened?" She started to urge her horse on when the forest started to shimmer and change, Ebony reared up, startled. Aroanna gasped and tried to stay seated but she ended up falling off, hitting the ground with a thud. Ebony then took off running. Aroanna groaned, rolled over and staggered to her feet, still out of breath and stumbled a few feet. She looked around and frowned. The path was gone and she couldn't tell where she was anymore.
"Ebony! Ebony come back!" She groaned and tried to call for Thalia again instead. "Thalia? Thalia answer me?!" Aroanna groaned and sat down heavily on a broken down tree. She sniffed and tried to hold back tears. 'I never should have taken off so fast. I should have waited for her.' She was sitting there with her head in her hands for what felt like only a few minutes when she heard heavy foot falls stop in front of her. She sniffed and wiped her tears away and looked up. She blinked when she saw a broad shouldered man with shoulder length dirty blond hair. She stood up quickly in alarm when she noticed he was armed with a sword –though she thought it was strange- and the man held up his hands to show that he was harmless.
"Woah! It's alright, I'm not going to hurt you." Aroanna eyed him warily. He was dressed in cloths that would be more in style in a renaissance fair. She shifted out of his reach and looked around. She blinked when she saw Ebony standing just a few feet away.
"Ebony!" She exclaimed in surprise. The man chuckled.
"Your horse nearly ran me over a short ways away. I noticed that she was saddled and had a pack attached to her so I decided to see if I couldn't find her owner. That's when I came across you sitting here. Are you alright?" He questioned looking at her slightly tear streaked face. Aroanna blushed and looked down.
"I'm fine. I just fell off of Ebony and was frustrated when she ran away. I also couldn't find my sister after she screamed and I'm worried that something awful happened to her and I don't know where to look and to be quite honest I'm still breathless from hitting the ground." She peered back up at the man and gave a nervous smile "I'm sorry, you don't even know who I am and I'm telling you all this. My name is Aroanna." The man smiled
"That's quite alright my lady. My name is Boromir, son of Denethor, steward of Gondor." Aroanna blinked, her jaw dropping before frowning.
"I would rather prefer it if you did not joke, tis not funny at all." She stated. The mans' eyebrow rose in surprise before furrowing it and saying
"I do not jest. I am who I say I am. I can even prove it." And prove it he did when he pulled the Horn of Gondor out of a pocket attached to his belt. Aroanna blinked and swayed.
"Oh my. Oh no. oh no, no, no." Boromir looked alarmed and grabbed her arm to steady her before she fell. "Oh, this can't be happening." She swallowed and looked around. She knew that the forest didn't look the same as when she had come this way originally but she did not think that she had somehow come through some sort of wormhole.
"Are you alright my lady?" Aroanna swallowed and shrugged.
"I'm not entirely sure any more. I don't think so though. If you are who you say you are and we are where I think we are and when we are then I do not think I'm alright at all. And I still don't know what happened to my sister." Boromir looked at her confused.
"Why does me being myself distress you so?" Aroanna blinked and frowned, not knowing what she should say. So she decided to lie.
"Well, because that means I'm much closer to Gondor than I should be. I thought I was closer to Bree when I got lost." Boromir blinked in surprise before smiling.
"Oh, don't worry my Lady, you are much closer to Bree than Gondor. I'm currently traveling to Rivendale." He said, Aroanna lit up in excitement.
"Rivendale, we're close to Rivendale?" She asked, if anyone knew how to help she knew it would be Lord Elrond and Gandalf. Boromir nodded, an amused smile on his face as he watched her practically bounce in excitement.
"I would be more than willing to take you to Rivendale with me if that is where you wish to go." He offered. Aroanna nodded and smiled shyly as she looked around.
"Um, do you have a horse? Or shall we share Ebony?" She asked. Boromir rose an eyebrow before saying,
"Unfortunately my horse was killed along with my companions, so it would be best if we rode together." Aroanna nodded and went over to Ebony. She let Boromir mount first before she hopped up behind him. Once she was settled, Boromir gently led Ebony towards a path she did not know. They rode in silence for a while before Aroanna cleared her throat to grab Boromir's attention,
"How long until we arrive?" Boromir thought for a moment before saying
"We should be there around sunset my lady." Aroanna sighed, it was only a little past noon and she was not known to enjoy long silences, so she asked
"Lord Boromir? Would you tell me of Gondor?" she could practically feel the pride and joy radiate off the man as he launched into detailed descriptions of everything, from the city to its people and the lives that people led. Aroanna listened attentively as he talked, she loved listening about the white city from someone who actually lived there and obviously loved it. She sighed
"It sounds lovely. I hope I get to see it one day." She sighed.
"Perhaps you will. I, myself, would be honored to be able to show you around." Boromir said. Aroanna paused, she knew that he wouldn't get to see his city again, but she didn't say anything about it, but nodded and smiled
"I would like that."
There was a short pause before Boromir asked her, "What about you? What is it like where you live?"
Aroanna smiled sadly, "Well, I live in the middle of a huge forest in the mountains in a small cabin with just my older sister Thalia. We were just on our way for our last camping trip of the year before the weather turned bad and we were snowed in, when we were separated because I cheated when we decided to race each other." Aroanna paused as she twisted in the saddle as much as she could to peer around, hoping maybe to see her sister again before sighing and sitting forward again. "Anyways, it's nothing so grand, but we live off the forest, Thalia normally takes care of all the problems that arise with the cabin while I usually go hunting for food to last us the winter." She sighed again and looked around again, once more hoping to catch wind of her sister.
"What of the men who should look after you?" Boromir asked after a few moments. Aroanna ignored the sexist remark and simply replied,
"Dead. Our Father died six years ago, when Thalia was a year younger than I am now. Our mother died in childbirth with me. Thalia has mostly raised me. Our father, I think, raised us more as boys than girls. I'm not sure he really knew how to care for two little girls." Boromir nodded his head in sympathetic understanding, he knew that some men just had a harder time raising girls when they had no mother figure.
"Well, your sister has done well with you it seems." He said. Aroanna beamed proudly and sat a little straighter.
"She has. I am blessed to have her as a sister." Aroanna sighed sadly then. "I just wish I knew where she was." She had no idea that Thalia was currently having her own problems in a completely other part of Middle Earth.