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My cousins (the boys) wanted to do a group project. It first started off as creating a character for themselves when we go to the Two Towers movie. They want to have their own name and a little history, so they could introduce themselves to the people.

Amber is a good writer, mostly poetry, but she has done some fiction before. She wanted to be a part of the TTT event, so she got pulled into the story line too. She has always called me "sister", so that's how she became my sister in the story.

Matt thought that the dwarves looked interesting and liked the fact that they battled with an axe. He actually wanted to be Lurtz or the "blue guy", as he calls him.

Tracey and Anthony has read the Hobbit and fell in love with that race of Middle Earth, so they decided that they would be brothers, as they are very close cousins.

About two weeks into deciding our characters, Anthony asked me if we could write a story that brought these characters into today's time, but kept it based on Tolkien and asked if we could be involved in some type of battle. I thought about it and suggested that we do the Last Battle and bring in the Prophecy of Mandos. They didn't know what that was about, so I explained it, and they all agreed.

So that's how the cousins are involved and how the story got started. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]