Author's Note: Important Update!

Hey all,

A lot of you have been messaging me to update this story. I've decided that I will. Now that the Hobbit has come out it's revived my obsession with LOTR. But to be honest I've lost sight of where I wanted to go with this story. Looking back on it now I don't enjoy the writing style I did use with this story and it doesn't sit right with me.

It's kind of sad that this story was published so long ago and I'm such a procrastinator that I've never finished it. But all these years I've been reading fanfiction and I realize how much its sucks when people quit writing or you wait months or years even for someone to update your favorite story and they don't. I truly am sorry for putting you all through this and I'm hoping that from now on I can do my best to make you guys happy (how many there are of you left that is). Regardless of who's still around, I want you guys to know that you all mean the world to me and I will do my best to meet your needs.

I've decided to re-do all of the chapters and make some minor changes. I will also follow the extended edition in order to make the story fuller. I'm also going to make it more of a slow-burning romance rather than jumping right into it. I realized I did move things quite fast. It takes away the realistic aspect and I'm not being true to the characters. I'm also probably going to change the POV problems I had going on in order to reduce confusion.

There isn't going to be a major change to the overall storyline. But it will take a more realistic view on this story. But I'm hoping that by re-writing and re-reading this story I'll get a better insight on where I was going in order to give you guys the best story I can possibly write. None of you have to re-read it unless you want to but it would give you a better idea on what's going and who knows you might like the changes.

I hope there are some out there that are still holding on to this story and I hope to see you all once I update. I'll make sure to write everything again so hold on for another week (I should have everything written by then). I'll update everything all in one day once it's all written along with a new chapter for everyone to see. So don't be worried if you see me updating fourteen times in one day. It's something I need to do in order to continue with this story.

Thanks for your patience and taking the time to read this (if you did). I hope to see you all soon in the next update,

~HLF