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Title: Battle of the Bands – Middle Earth!
Chapters: One through Six with Prologue, Interlude, and Epilogue
Author: phyncke
Character(s): Aragorn/Legolas, Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Gandalf, Boromir, Gimli, Elrond, Elladan, Elrohir, Lurtz, Gollum/Smeagol, Bilbo, Sauron, Saruman, Glorfindel, Haldir, Galadriel, Celeborn,
Beta: Keiliss
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters, they are the property of JRR Tolkien and his estate, and I have borrowed them for my own amusement and for yours I hope.
Feedback: Much appreciated.
Summary: The fate of Middle Earth rests on rock and roll!
Note: Some canon-verse and some movie verse. A mixture. Lots of AU here.
Prologue – The 60’s
Isildur was THE MAN. He rocked Sauron’s ring off, literally. He played such a righteous riff there when his Pops died in the middle of the Last Alliance’s last stand that the ring came right off the dude’s hand. It was amazing! It must have been a combination of grief and fury that made him play so hard. His guitar neck split from the strength of his conviction, he was rockin’ it that hard.
Anyway, the rest is, shall we say, history. Izzy kept the ring and it betrayed him and got away. Some think it rolled down the sewer when he was walking home one night with his mates. It is a fickle thing that ring, and it killed ole Isildur. You cannot trust a R.O.P. (that’s ring of power, in case you were wondering) especially THE ONE.
Time passed and music changed and THE ONE was found again – Bilbo Baggins came upon it on the floor of The Goblin Cave, a really dark and skanky place when he was running with Thorin’s lot. He traded riddles with the creature, Gollum or Smeagol as he once was known in better days. They chatted and questioned and Bilbo got the best of him. He drove the skulker quite mad with this last one,
“What have I got in my pocket?”
That set Gollum right off and Bilbo put on the ring, disappearing into thin air. He knew then that the ring was special.
Later, Bilbo passed THE ONE down to Frodo and by this time, Gandalf the Grey had it pretty much figured out. It was in fact, THE ONE with all that creepy writing on it and needed to be destroyed, which brings us to the present situation.