LORD OF THE RINGS FANFICTION
-Prologue
It had been a year since Gollum's topple into Mt. Doom, and people all over Middle Earth were finally beginning to accept that the worst was over. Frodo had just traveled to the Palace of Gondor, where he agreed to meet with Gandalf and Aragorn once again. Nobody, not even Frodo, knew yet of Frodo's future where he would one day travel to the Undying Lands and leave Middle Earth for good.
But other places, such as the peaceful Shire, were still being repaired and reconstructed. Many volunteers were hard at work, including a local, rather well-known Hobbit who had finally returned to his regular, no longer endangered life in his home with his new wife, Rose. But, as we all surely know by now, adventures rarely ever end when we think they should, and this lesson has a point in our story.
On a bright, sunny, warm morning, Samwise Gamgee woke up to find the most abnormal surprise: a somehow resurrected Gollum collapsed outside the door to Sam's Hobbit hole. He was covered in horribly severe burns, scrapes, and bruises, not to mention he was completely unconscious. But he was alive just the same, and Sam's wife convinced him that he should help him. Though Sam was hesitant to regain trust of the entity he had never trusted in the first place, his wife finaly convinced him that Gollum meant well.
A weak statement of apoligy, followed by massive coughing, was the first sound of Gollum's croaky voice on the second day in Sam's home. After regaining his voice, he pleaded about how desperate he was for the "Hobbitses'" forgivness. Sam, of course, didn't believe the creature, but nonstop hours of the squawked begging can make a person lose it. Poor Gollum was sincerely sorry to hear that Frodo was not present in the Shire, thus couldn't accept right away. But Sam promised he would write to Frodo explaining everything, and that he did.
He wrote the palace wondering what in the name of Gamgee he should do about the wretch, and he sent it to Gandalf. Both Frodo and Gandalf sent a message back saying to bring Gollum to them, for he has been sent back, thus his time of life must not be over. Sam set out with, much to his own despise, a weak Gollum mounted on a pony.
Our story began in the great hills outside of the Shire, where Gollum's horse laid ill back at the camp, and Gollum crawled upon his own burnt feet to show his new "Master" something he had just spotted...
