Journey to Mordor (By SUV)

Disclaimer: I have no claim to The Lord of the Rings. It was created by J.R.R. Tolkien, not me. I own only the ideas and plots for my story, not the places, events, and characters from The Lord of the Rings.

Summary: Tess, Kate, Emily, and Dolly are all heading to Ocean City on summer break, but a fight brings them to Middle-earth where only Tess fits in. The four friends meet up with the Fellowship and journey to Mordor to destroy the Ring. But along the way, everyone is split up, the SUV breaks down, fights break out and new friends are formed. And a few secrets are discovered that change the course of a few futures. Covers all three parts of LotR.

Part One: The Fellowship of the Ring

Chapter One: SUV in Middle-earth

"Can't you drive any faster? You know, I'd kinda like it if we made it to Ocean City before summer was over, if you know what I mean…" said Dolly, a 15 year old girl with long, shoulder length blonde hair and glasses, who was sitting in the backseat.

The person who was driving was 16 year old Kaitlin who also had blonde hair, but hers reached the middle of her back and was curly and also darker than Dolly's. And she was wearing very 'cool' hang-out-at-the-mall clothes. Most of her friends called her Kate, but her very best friend liked to refer to her as 'Crazy Kate'. But her driving was anything but crazy…

"I'm already driving five miles above the speed limit as it is, what do you want be to do, drive twenty miles over it?" said a grouchy Kate.

"Well, yeah," spoke the three other passengers as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. Kate glared at them.

"Well, how about 'no'?"

Dolly and her friend Emily groaned. Emily was sitting in the passenger seat next to Kate. Emily had long, straight brown hair and also wore glasses. She was wearing, like usual, an orange shell necklace and orange clothes. Emily was also 15.

Tess who was sitting in the backseat, behind the driver's seat, just shook her head and sighed. Tess had long, past her shoulder, red and brown, curly hair. Even though it was summer, she was wearing what could be called 'country' clothes, seeing how her friends had just dragged her out of her summer stay in the country. She had on jeans, a beat-up pair of sneakers, a blue tank top with a blue and white checked sleeveless button-up shirt over top. She also had a pair of headphones jammed over her ears; the volume turned up so that she could drown out her friends.

Dolly and Emily were trying very hard to get Kate to speed up but she refused to. Finally, Dolly gave up and went back to reading a book. But Emily reached over and put her foot on the gas, causing the car to shoot forward. Kate let out a string of curse words, all learned from Tess.

Emily and Kate were suddenly fighting over control of the car, both of them with their feet on the gas and hands on the steering wheel. They then caused the car to go off the road, into the woods. Finally they both let go and the SUV came to a stop. Then Kate tried stepping on the gas. Nothing happened. She tried again, stepping harder. Still, no result.

"The car is stuck in something," spoke Tess, taking off her headphones. "Let's see what it's stuck in."

Emily, Dolly, Kate and Tess all got out to look. When they looked down, they were stuck in a swamp, while the tires of Kate's silver Suburban spun.

"Damn it!" cursed Kate.

Dolly squinted in the sun, raised her hand over her head and pointed to something in the distance. "Hey, what's that sign say?"

Tess walked towards it until the reading was in sight, so she could read it. "It says, Mordor, this way."

"What the hell is 'Mordor? I don't remember that being on the map," Kate said.

Tess turned towards her friends, walking back to them and the SUV. "That's because it wasn't on the map. It's not on any map, except…"

"Except what?" questioned Emily.

"…except on this one," said Tess as began to rummage through her backpack. "Ah, the map of Middle-earth."

Tess pulled out a well-worn copy of The Lord of the Rings. And she shown the map inside it to her friends. She pointed out Mordor and an area where they might be. They decided to walk towards Mordor, with their stuff. So the four friends unloaded their belongs and start off towards Mordor, leaving the SUV behind—stuck in a swamp.

The Fellowship of the Ring had not too long ago left Rivendell. They were heading towards Mordor when they saw a very strange sight. In a swamp, along side the road, something large and silver was stuck in a swamp. They decided to take a closer look. When they did, they discovered that it was some type of 'car' according to Gandalf. They managed to get it out of the swamp and decided, by a vote, to see if it would get them to Mordor. But first they had to assign seats.

"Okay," said Aragorn as he looked down a list on a clipboard in his hands. "We have nine people,7 seats, and a trunk along with the roof. So how is this going to work?"

"I know! I know!" cried Gandalf as he jumped up and down and waved his hand in the air. "I know!"

"What is it this time, Gandalf?" snapped Legolas.

"The Hobbits will ride in either the backseat, the trunk, or the roof. Aragorn or Legolas will drive and the other gets the other front seat. Boromir and I will take the middle seats. Gimli can ride with the Hobbits."

Crickets chirped in the awkward silence. Which was finally broken by Legolas, who shouted, "I call driver!" as he led the group in a mad dash towards the SUV.

"Oh no you don't!" growled Aragorn as he dropped the clipboard and list and jumped in the SUV first. He then locked the door and watched Legolas bang on the driver's side door before walking around to the other side.

Everyone else piled in, pushing, fighting, cursing and general name-calling. Finally, they were able to hit the road. Frodo was tied onto the roof by popular vote, the other three hobbits in the trunk, Boromir, Gimli and Gandalf crowded in the middle, Aragorn driving, and Legolas in the passenger seat.

(Original note)

I hope you liked the beginning! This should be a rather interesting story. One major challenge facing them will be—can anyone in the Fellowship actually drive? And will the hobbits be a pain about the car? Find out in the next chapter- 'Are We There Yet?'. Until then, read and review!

(New note)

I decided to change bits and pieces of the story and fix mistakes and such. It will take some time to fix the whole story but I will still continue on with the sequel as I fix this one. Hopefully it will make the story easier to read and remove many errors.