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Spomonie and Nurvingiel entered the small office. Spomonie made a plate of crackers with antipasto and cream cheese as Nurvingiel set up the next MST. Nurvingiel put the backpack with supplies next to her chair, and sat down with a mug of tea for herself and her friend. Spomonie quickly joined her with the plate of crackers.

N: (handing her the mug) Here's your tea Spomonie.
S: Thanks. We should get a kettle and hot plate in here, then we could make tea and soup any time. Comfort food for when a fic turns bad.
N: (laughs) Anyway, we have a somewhat longer fic for you today -
S: How much longer?
N: (sidestepping Spomonie's question) Which I hope you enjoy.
S: So without further ado...

The story of her life

S: As a toilet brush.
N: (snickers)

Author: Aglarien

This is my first fic and I would like you to tell me your opinion on it.

N: We have an opinion, but you may not like it.
S: Oh yes Precious.

I plan to write more chapters,

S: So Nurv, how long is this fic? I didn't bring very much food.
N: (mumbles incoherently)
S: What?
N: Seventeen short chapters. And she's... er, not done.
S: What!?
N: I emphasize short. It's not that bad.

and post one every week or two, even if you don't like what I write.

S: (Author, army sergeant voice) You will read it and like it, you maggots!

The main character is Thiniel, Arwens sister.

N: I'm feeling a Mary Sue on this one.
S: Oh yes Precious.
N: I'll give you a box of cookies if you stop doing Gollum impressions.
S: Deal. (quietly) Sucker.
N: What was that?

I made her up.

N: Actually, she is mentioned in the Appendices... not!

She lives in Lorien and we follow her life, meeting with the fellowship, the battles

S: The Sue-ishness
N: The stalking of Legolas

and so on.

Disclaimer: I claim none of original Lord of the Rings characters, places or events. Thiniel 's the only character I created. I fully respect prof. Tolkien

N: That's "Professor" to you.
S: With a capital "P".

and his work and everyone who worked on the film version on the book.

So, don't sue me!

N: (Christopher Tolkien) We'll see.

Chapter 1

Thiniel's story

She sat high up in the mallorn trees of Lorien. Her long dark hair was picked up in the braid.

S: (Random Elf of Lorien) You dropped your hair, I picked it for you.
N: Now that she's a bald toilet brush, maybe she won't turn into a Sue.

She had a grey dress and a cloak in the same colour, matching her eyes.

N: Are you sure they don't randomly turn emerald?

Even the sharpest eye wouldn't discover her up there.

S: (Random Elf of Lorien) I see you up there, our eyes are sharper than sharp.

She thought about the past.

S: She had for dinner. (re-reads) Oh, I thought she said "pasta".

She knew she couldn't change anything what happened although she wanted that more than anything else.

N: We've been saying what a lot, but... what?
S: It's probably just random angst. (offers plate) Cracker?
N: Cheers.

She felt like she was alone in this world, like no one cares about her.

N: Cry me a river, I'll build you a bridge you can jump off of.

But she was wrong.

S: No she wasn't.

So many people loved her and they did care about her.

N: (Person who cares) She's so useful.

Her only sister Arwen, her brothers Elladan and Elrohir, her best friend Aragorn, her grandparents,

S: All the other people who's lives she had mysteriously infiltrated,

and all the other friends weather they were Elves or Men.

N: Or Orcs. We know your secret.

And of course, her father Elrond loved her and thought of her very often.

N: (Elrond) I know I have another daughter... what's her name again?

Especially now, after he hasn't seen her for a long time.

S: Ever. (stage whisper) Elrond doesn't have a daughter named Thiniel.

She loved her father, too. He was the only parent she had. Her mother, Celebrian was wounded and had to sail West, and now, Thiniel couldn't even remember how she looked like.

N: Because she had the memory of a goldfish.
S: (Thiniel) Short-term memory loss runs in my family... I think.
N: You really enjoyed "Finding Nemo" didn't you.

She only had this small memory of her mother's eyes. The grey eyes full of love and care for her children.

" Thiniel! Thiniel! "

N: That name sounds a lot like a type of cracker.
S: Like "Wheat Thiniel's"

, suddenly the sound of her name interrupted her thoughts. Someone was looking for her.

N: The police.

She decided to ignore that and went back to her memories.

N: (Thiniel) It probably isn't important since nobody loves me.
S: (Thiniel) Woe is me.

One of the most painful memories Thiniel had was about the last time she saw her father Elrond.

S: It was during a rugby game, and Elrond had accidentally stomped her head in a ruck.
N: (makes air quotes) "Accidentally".

That was about sixty years ago. Not much time for the Elves,

N: Barely enough time to have a shower and dry their hair.

but in this case, she felt like it was a lot more. It all happened so quickly.

N: (confused) Even though it felt like a long time?

All those words that were said,

S: (Thiniel) Blah blah blah.

now couldn't be pulled back, or forgotten. If she could, she would give everything she had to forget that day.

It happened in spring. Sauron's army of orcs tried to get Dol Guldur

S: Turned into an arcade

and urgent help was needed. Elrond decided to send his troop to help.

N: (Elrond) Foul orcs will not defile Pac-Man!

He knew Thiniel would try to go with them,

S: Because she would want to use her martial skills, learned at the Sue-cademy.
N: Nice one Monie.
S: (grins)

so he asked her to promise him she won't go. And she promised, but early in the morning left with the soldiers.

S: (soldiers) We're doomed!

Her brothers didn't go because they had some other business,

N: Not getting killed.

so the felt that it's her duty to represent the family

N: in court

.

At the Dol Guldur, the commander of the troups, Galadhion was killed so she took his place and led the army.

S: Called it! One to zero for me.

She was known as the best organiser and attack planer,

N: She smoothes down attacks with wood-working hand tools.

but something went wrong.

S: She was a Sue!

When the most of the orcs were killed, she decided to go and win over the castle.

N: You only wish Dol Guldur was a mere castle.

She led her men straight into it, unaware of the large basements' the castle had.

S: Ooh, large basements. Scary.
N: Actually that would be scary in Dol Guldur. They'd be full of unspeakable evil, which any self-respecting Elf would have sensed.

And those basements were full of orcs and other beasts ready to attack

N: Called it! That's one each.
S: (Soldier) Way to go there best attack planer.

Thiniel never expected that to happen. She never made such a big mistake before.

S: Apart from going against Elrond's advice.
N: And existing.

They were outnumbered. She lost there half of her men, and the other half would be lost if the sudden help didn't came.

N: You want to say "if sudden help hadn't come."
S: You're fighting a losing battle my dear, almost as bad as Thiniel.

Only with the help of the Elves of Mirkwood, led by Legolas,

N: And enter Prince Lust Object. Hey, I called that too! Two - one.
S: We shouldn't tease him, he's in for a hard enough time as it is.

they won the battle.

N: You should probably write that as "did they win the battle."
S: (gives Nurvingiel a meaningful look)
N: Okay, yeah...

Thiniel felt she's failed.

N: Must resist... urge to correct...
S: Be strong.
N: (Eats several of Spomonie's antipasto crackers at once.)

She hoped her father will understand that. She hoped he'd forgive her.

S: I'm proud of you Nurv.
N: I try.

But she was wrong.

S: (Elrond) I'm not forgiving you for getting many valiant men killed foolishly.

Before she got back to Rivendell, Elrond knew what happened. He was outraged. When the soldiers marshed through the gate of Rivendell,

S: They made a swampy ecosystem on the threshold of the Last Homely House.
N: Which irritated Elrond's neighbour, the Last Homely Bungalow.

Elrond was waiting there for them, his face looked like it was made from stone.

N: Mount Rushmore?

He called Thiniel to his chambers, with a cold voice.

S: (Elrond) I've got to stop standing in the meat freezer.

Cold sweat covered her face. They walked into the hall silently. He closed the door and took a long breath

N: From the closet

.

" Thiniel ", he said " I don't know what to tell you, except that I am greatly dissapointed by your actions. "

N: (Elrond) I disown you.
S: (Elrond) Now leave, never to return.

" Father, I…"

She tried to explain but he interrupted her, raising his voice

S: And putting it on a shelf.

"No! You don't speak untill you get my permission!

N: (Thiniel) Can I have your permission? Oops.

Also, you don't go to war without my permission! And you don't take all your men into an unchecked castle! What were you thinking?!"

N: Elrond is wise.

After that a long moment of silence proceeded.

N: Legolas told Arwen he loved her!
S: Well that was random.
N: Having a long moment was very "Never Again" -ish.
S: The memories. Need... Mind Bleach.

" I only did what I thought I should. It can happen to anyone!

S: Countless people discover they are morons in the middle of a battle!

I did what I thought was the best to do in that situation! "

N: (Thiniel) Get everyone killed!

" And you think you did the right thing? "

" I'm not saying that. ", she gasped and then continued " It was the only way to clean South Mirkwood from enemies!"

" No it wasn't!

N: (Takes out "Go Elrond!" pennant from the backpack, and starts waving it.)

You should have waited for Legolas' army to arrive! ", He was angrier by minute. " You've practicly helped the enemy!"

S: (Elrond) One would almost think you were in league with the Orcs.
N: (Elrond, suspicious) How did you avoid being killed anyway?

" But who could've known when will they arrive! The spiders ambushed them so they were late. We couldn't have known if they'll arrive on time! "

N: (Thiniel) We couldn't have known I'd be completely incompetent!

" Thiniel! ", Elrond shouted again, " No more excuses. The truth is you failed! You've helped the enemy!"

N: (waves the "Go Elrond" pennant.)

She knew that but she couldn't listen to him anymore.

S: (Elrond) You can't handle the truth!

" Can you bring half of my men back with your lame excuses?

S: Elrond is my hero. Can I borrow that pennant?
N: Sure.
S: (Waves pennant)

No! You are a disgrace for whole Elven race, and to me and my home.
What kind of daughter are you?! " he couldn't stop

S: Trampling her head

.

It was so painful listening to that.

N: (Thiniel) Woe is me.

" With a father like you it's not a surprise that I'm a failiour! ", she said " I wish you weren't my father! "

S: As do we all.
N: But don't blame Elrond for your stupidity. It's not a heritable trait.

He couldn't believe she's saying that. His beloved Thiniel, youngest of all his children.

S: At the tender age of five.

He was so angry no words could describe.

S: What can words describe?
N: The Sueishness of the Sue.

And then he said something that he has regretted many times later.

N: (Elrond) You can use my credit cards Thiniel.

" I wish you weren't my daughter, too. For me, you died there, at Dol Guldur!", when he said that, he knew he made a mistake.

N: He knew he should kill her on the spot.

But it could not be undone.

S: (Elrond) Like these blasted shoelaces!

Those words were for Thiniel like a sward through the heart.

N: I can only imagine how much it would hurt to have a grassy expanse go through your heart.
S: It would be worse than a sword through your heard.

She just stood there, numb, broken.

Both: Yea!
S: (Waves "Go Elrond" pennant.) Stomp her again!

Her father, her dear father wished she was dead. She looked at him and turned around.

S: Now she was looking at him with her head rotated 180°.

She ran out of the hall as fast as she could.

N: At a snail's pace.

She took only her horse.

S: No food, no water, no blanket.
N: Maybe she's only going to the corner store.

She was ready to go. Forever.

N: And there was much rejoicing.

She rode out from the valley and rode until she came to Lorien. Her horse was exhausted.

She felt empty inside, her whole world was broken.

S: (Thiniel, disappointed) I dropped my snow globe.

In Lorien, Galadriel embraced her and she could understand her with no words.

S: (Galadriel, looking into Thiniel's mind) No thoughts? That's odd...

Her Thiniel was suffering and she suffered, too. Thiniel decided to stay in Lorien with her grandparents.

N: (Celeborn) We have an extra room... on our Northern borders.

She has forgiven her father, but as they say she hasn't forgotten.

S: Whoop-de-do, as they say.

She thought about that day often, but only when she was alone, up in the trees.

N: Otherwise, she didn't think about anything.

Now, she decided to come down. Someone called her name again and she decided to answer before they get worried.

S: And?
N: That's the end of the chapter.
S: Abrupt, yet welcome.

After a short break, they were ready to tackle the next chapter.

S: By the way, we have a reference to "Finding Nemo", "A Few Good Men", and "Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail"!
N: Onwards!

Chapter 2

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