Beyond the Rings: Once Upon a Time in Bree
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"He is known in the Wild as Strider," his father had once told him - but this is not that tale.
Before whispers of the Ring returned to the world, before the Fellowship was ever even dreamed of... there was another journey.
One that began not in Rivendell or Mirkwood, but in a rain-drenched village west of the Wild, where shadows passed unnoticed between the doors of the Prancing Pony.
Bree.
Legolas Greenleaf had been sent north to seek the heir of Isildur among the Dúnedain.
Yet it was not Aragorn - as we know him to be - that he found in Bree, but another...
One whose presence would unravel more than politics.
A stranger who held the key to a secret buried deep beneath the ruins of Dol Guldur, and to the fate of those long forgotten by kings and councils alike.
Someone who....
This tale, set the year following the Battle of the Five Armies and long before the rise of the Ringbearer Frodo Baggins, explores a different path - one of missteps and misgivings, of warning and wariness.
Who warned Thorin Oakenshield of his father's end?
Why did Thorin Oakenshield went to Bree?
How did Gandalf the Grey find him there?
Who did Legolas meet as Strider?
Why did he decide to keep traveling after their encounter?
And what unknown trials forged the elven prince into the warrior who would one day ride with the Nine?
Through veils of memory and moments nearly lost, Beyond the Rings: Once Upon a Time in Bree weaves together the beginnings of a bond that defied duty, an encounter fated not by chance but by something older and perhaps more dangerous than destiny itself.
A companion volume to Beyond the Rings: the Legacy of the Last Age, this story brings to light the untold youth of Legolas, the unlikely meetings that shaped him, and the cost of being chosen by the winds of fate.
~ Book 1 out of 2 ~