This is really well written. Great storyline so far!

Great idea bringing someone with a military background to the world. Although I am not sure that Haldir has this view about women.

Lord of the rings crossed with avatar it's brilliant. I binged this in 2 days and I loved all of the ups and downs.

This has been an absolutely amazing read. Thank you so much for writing and sharing this! :)

Just binged this after searching for a good old nostalgic MGIME story… and my god, did I find a masterpiece. This was an A romance, a fantasy/sci fi epic that blended with Tolkien’s original work, and a heavy handed critique of American and capitalist values. Dear writer, I hope you get your pussy ate.

Wow! I've lost a lot of sleep this past few days because of you. I couldn't stop reading. This is the BEST LOTR fanfiction that I've read followed by Equinoxium. I want to start reading it again! Congratulations!

I wish Lauren was less Mary Sue.

Great someone else survived too.

Lauren is a great character.

I am a bit confused why Haldir thinks a woman can't lead guards but is it because he wants to provoke her?

Love your portrayal of Elves.

Oh my god this is absolutely my favorite "woman falls into middle earth" stories ever. I really love everything about it. I like that you made her from the future and not our earth because that helps explain how she got there and her not constantly making media references only readers would understand. I really love these stories but the references do get old (I mean at some point after being there would t you stop making them? Lol) and the lack of explanation does get annoying. Like, something has to happen to bring you to another world, I refuse to believe someone would like, close their eyes and just appear there.

I really love how she's actually capable. I'm honestly tired of people being brought to middle earth and not being useful at all. Like I said, there has to be a reason someone is bright there, no? I don't think it's instantly Mary-Sue to make someone capable of being useful and changing things, whether that be with magic or her own human skills like aiming a gun. And if they were brought there on accident, what is the point of the story anyway? If they're just going to sit around and observe everything and not change anything, it's just telling LOTR all over again from a new pair of eyes. I'm also tired of the same boring story where they show up at the council meeting and follow through every step of the way. Lauren's journey was unique, and though it still hit the same big points like Helm's Deep, how she got there was different. Sorry for the rant, I'm just expressing what I liked about your story and how it differs from others.

Finally, I really love how you portrayed Legolas in this, and the love triangle in general. I absolutely hate love triangles. I abhor them. If I had know this story would have one for a while, I would not have read it. But I'm glad I read it anyway because you did such a great job showing how it was more Lauren growing as a person over time and learning to care for someone else rather than, what really makes me uncomfortable about love triangles, which is when the MC has two people inlvd with them and has romantic moments with both at the same time and is essentially leading them both on. I canty get behind that kind of dynamic unless done really well with angst thrown in, because when it's not done well it feels cruel toward these other two characters. Haldir and Legolas were very different people and it was pretty clear why she fell in love with Legolas, you really managed to make their characters mesh really well and get across that they had a good connection. I genuinely loved her relationship with Haldir in the beginning and loved her relationship with Legolas at the end.

I also really love that she spent years there and learned how to use a bow and arrow. This goes in with the competence thing. I haven't actually read a story where someone falls to middle earth and magically can use a bow. Usually they're just good enough to have a moment where they're useful with luck and lots of training. Which is nice because it's realistic. But again, it was nice to have someone who is actually competent for once.

Your story genuinely left me confused as to what would happen! I was so nervous Haldir would die and she'd have to say goodbye to him. I was super tense and nervous about whether she would go home and take Legolas with her or if she'd stay and how all of that would pan out. I really couldn't anticipate what would happen and it was awesome.

And I also love that you gave a happy ending in terms of middle earth. I love LOTR and I always feel so sad when I read the books or watch the movies because it really is a story about the rise of man and the fall of everything else. The Shire is not the same after the war, the elves are leaving, Gandalf leaves too, eventually. In the Hobbit, the line of During falls, which is in a way the start of the fall of Dwarves as well. Aragorn is the last in the line of magically blessed humans. They won the war, but it's like the magic of the world iseaving and it's genuinely so sad. So even if it is a bit cheesy, the idea of everyone coming together to form a city where all are welcome, it's a nice happy solution to what I consider to be a tragedy for the world itself. People usually make happy endings for the characters, but you thought about Middle Earth as a whole.

Sorry this is so long I'm just getting my thoughts out. I really loved this!

Sigh. . . A human from earth turning into an elf? Really?

This is starting to reak of mary sue, as well as being completely absurd and killing the feel of the story.

I started reading this story thinking it would be more grounded than this.

I should've known that something utterly nonsensical like this would happen, especially after seeing the [Legolas, OC] tag in the discription.

Gotta shoehorn stuff in so the future pairing works eh?

Ridiculous

Ok, Lauren (OC character from earth) turning into an elf and David (OC character from earth) turning into a dwarf doesn't make any sense.

It seems, the only reason you wrote Lauren turning into an elf was for her pairing with Legolas to work out in the long run, and as a result it feels forced and contrived.

This story advertises itself as a "modern HUMAN gets transported into middle earth" type of story.

It feels more like an OC elf story now.

I liked this story until you shoehorned in Lauren turning into an elf, and David turning into a dwarf was the last straw.

Love this story!