Oath-bound, a woman has no choice but to heed the call of a wizard, inevitably joined to a mismatched group of Free Peoples in a quest with hopes of destroying the one thing that threatens to ensnare Middle Earth in shadow once more. Unbeknownst to most of the Fellowship, something dark lies in wait, much closer than they anticipate, and all is not well with their tenth member. Will this newcomer aid in the destruction of Isildur's Bane? Or hinder it? *Glorfindel/OC