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* AnimateInanimateObject: A sword talks at one point.

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* AnimateInanimateObject: A sword talks at one point. {{Subverted|Trope}}, as it turns out to be Frodo who is invisible at the time.

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* AerithAndBob: This girl's name is "Laura". In Middle-Earth. The author's name [[TheDanza also seems to be Laura]]. [[SelfInsert My oh my...]]
** That [[FridgeLogic may actually not be a problem.]] See BilingualBonus below (though it might not have been intentional).

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* AerithAndBob: This girl's name is "Laura". In Middle-Earth. The author's name [[TheDanza also seems to be Laura]]. [[SelfInsert My oh my...]]
** That [[FridgeLogic may actually
]] "Laure" is a Noldorin word for "Golden", but it's not be a problem.]] See BilingualBonus below (though it might not have been intentional).clear if the author knew that. Plus, Legolas is Sindarin and wouldn't use the Noldorin language.



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%%* BeigeProse* BeigeProse: The text just describes the actions of the characters in a plain, matter-of-fact way, even when the main character is being raped and tortured.
--> "one of the Orcs striped her and then he raped her and then Laura said"go away you bastard".Then another Orc came with a whip and whiped her hard and then the Orcs all togeter bet her almost to death and then the Dark Lord came in with a tube of Posion and then he injeted into Laura."



* DeadFic: It never got finished.

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* DeadFic: It never got finished.The fic literally ends mid-sentence. The original has been taken down, so seeing any official conclusion is very unlikely.



** This fic being... this fic, it's [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment never mentioned again]].

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* AntiClimax: It never got finished.


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* DeadFic: It never got finished.

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* GratuitousRape: After Laura gets captured, one of the orcs decides to rape her... for some reason.



* GratuitousRape: After Laura gets captured, one of the orcs decides to rape her... for some reason.
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* AerithAndBob: This girl's name is "Laura". In Middle-earth. The author's name [[TheDanza also seems to be Laura]]. [[SelfInsert My oh my...]]

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* AerithAndBob: This girl's name is "Laura". In Middle-earth.Middle-Earth. The author's name [[TheDanza also seems to be Laura]]. [[SelfInsert My oh my...]]



* AnachronismStew: It's implied that "the dark lord" has access to hypodermic needles... in the [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy medieval-level]] Middle-earth.

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* AnachronismStew: It's implied that "the dark lord" has access to hypodermic needles... in the [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy medieval-level]] Middle-earth.Middle-Earth.

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* AnachronismStew: It's implied that "the dark lord" has access to hypodermic needles... in the [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy medieval-level]] Middle-earth.



* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Mirkwood is ''not'' five minutes' walk away from Mordor, and Rivendell is on the ''opposite'' side of Mirkwood behind a mountain range. Then again, as far as we know, "Mondor" might be quite close to "Milkwood".

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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: An unusual example, since this is a case of somebody giving an incorrect portrayal of ''fictional'' geography. Mirkwood is ''not'' five minutes' walk away from Mordor, and Rivendell is on the ''opposite'' side of Mirkwood behind a mountain range. Then again, as far as we know, "Mondor" might be quite close to "Milkwood".



* TheDragon: The Boss of the Orcs is the Dark Lord (presumably Sauron)'s sidekick.

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* TheDragon: The Boss of the Orcs is the Dark Lord (presumably Sauron)'s sidekick.right-hand man... um, orc.



* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Dark Lord and the Boss of the Orcs are never addressed by name.

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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Dark Lord and the Boss of the Orcs are never addressed referred to by name.



* GratuitousRape: After capturing Laura, some of the orcs decide to rape her... for some reason.

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* GratuitousRape: After capturing Laura, some Laura gets captured, one of the orcs decide decides to rape her... for some reason.
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* DramaticReading: Lots of them. It's really short, so can usually fit in a single Website/YouTube video. The most popular one is by Tropers/ManWithoutABody with a video to go with it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMbjK1m6alg here]]. Before that, the best-known reading was the so-called Sugar High Version, preserved [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_v6Y9mtt8g here]].

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* DramaticReading: Lots of them. It's really short, so can usually fit in a single Website/YouTube video. The most popular one is by Tropers/ManWithoutABody [=YouTuber=] manwithoutabody (now mutantmuseum) with a video to go with it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMbjK1m6alg here]]. Before that, the best-known reading was the so-called Sugar High Version, preserved [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_v6Y9mtt8g here]].



%%* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Almost on the same level as ''FanFic/MyImmortal''.

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%%* * RougeAnglesOfSatin: Almost Typos are constant, almost on the same level as ''FanFic/MyImmortal''.



%%* WifeHusbandry

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%%* WifeHusbandry* WifeHusbandry: Legolas finds Laura abandoned in the woods as a baby, and arranges to have her raised in his own household. By the end of the story, they're now a couple.
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* KidnappedWhileSleeping: Laura is taken by Orcs in her sleep.

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* AllLowercaseLetters: The title.

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* AllLowercaseLetters: The title.title is written without capitalisation.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Laura's species is left ambiguous, but she's ''probably'' a human: if she's an elf, she'd have looked about three, and if she was a dwarf or hobbit, she'd be short.
* AnimateInanimateObject: A sword talks at one point.



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* BlackComedyRape: Unintentionally.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: It isn't one, but it really does read as if it was. "Mean while Gandalf is have a fun time trying to distory the dark lord"?
* BrotherSisterIncest: Legolas and Laura.
* CardCarryingVillain: The Orcs refer to themselves as "us all the bad guys"

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* BlackComedyRape: Unintentionally.
Unintentionally. One of the orcs rapes Laura and it's meant to be serious, but considering that the fanfic is so badly written, it comes off as an unintentional dark joke.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: It isn't one, one because it was originally written in English, but it really does read as if it was. "Mean while Gandalf is have a fun time trying to distory the dark lord"?
* BrotherSisterIncest: Legolas and Laura.
Laura. She's his adoptive sister but asks him to be her boyfriend and he agrees.
* CardCarryingVillain: The Orcs refer to themselves as "us all the bad guys"guys".



* CurbStompBattle: Gandalf and ''Sauron''.

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* %%* CurbStompBattle: Gandalf and ''Sauron''.



* DeusExMachina: During Gandalf's fight with Sauron, Frodo randomly appears and says he destroyed the One Ring.
* DistressedDamsel: Laura.
* TheDragon: The Boss of the Orcs.

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* DeusExMachina: During Gandalf's fight with Sauron, Frodo randomly appears and says he destroyed the One Ring.
Ring. This somehow makes Sauron die.
* DistressedDamsel: Laura.
Laura. She is kidnapped by orcs, beaten, poisoned, and raped and she must be rescued.
* TheDragon: The Boss of the Orcs.Orcs is the Dark Lord (presumably Sauron)'s sidekick.



* DullSurprise / EmotionlessGirl / MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Laura seems remarkably calm about being abducted and tortured by orcs, and her friends seem remarkably calm about her condition when they find her.

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* DullSurprise / EmotionlessGirl / MajorInjuryUnderreaction: DullSurprise: Laura seems remarkably calm about being abducted and tortured by orcs, and her friends seem remarkably calm about her condition when they find her.her.
* EmotionlessGirl: Despite crying as a baby and screaming as she's being taken away, Laura seems pretty emotionless, even when she's being tortured.



* [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy The Gards Must Be Crazy]]: They completely fail to stop laura from being kidnapped, and barely even react to it
* GratuitousRape: After capturing Laura, some of the orcs decide to rape her...for some reason.

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* [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy The Gards TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Or should that be "The ''Gards'' Must Be Crazy]]: Crazy"? They completely fail to stop laura from being kidnapped, and barely even react to it
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* GratuitousRape: After capturing Laura, some of the orcs decide to rape her... for some reason.



* InjuredLimbEpisode: The orcs' beating breaks Laura's left arm.



* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Laura's only reaction to being whipped, raped, beaten, poisoned, and having her left arm broken is to say "go away you bastard".

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* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Laura's only reaction to being whipped, raped, beaten, poisoned, and having her left arm broken is to say say, "go away you bastard".bastard".
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Implied with Legolas agreeing to be Laura's boyfriend. Legolas is an elf, who can live for millenia, and Laura is ''implied'' to be a human.



* OhCrap: Sauron has this reaction when Frodo says the One Ring has been destroyed.

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* OhCrap: Sauron has this reaction when Frodo says the One Ring has been destroyed. Namely, he lets himself be destroyed by Gandalf.
* OriginalCharacter: Laura is not a canon character.



** Legolas wouldn't keep a baby he found in the woods before searching for the parents. He also wouldn't agree to be his ten-or-eleven-year-old adopted sister's boyfriend.
** Gandalf wouldn't enjoy fighting.
** Even the villains are a bit out of character what with being strangely selective in kidnapping the princess but not the prince.



* RapeAsDrama: It attempted this and it failed.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Almost on the same level as ''FanFic/MyImmortal''.
* SaidBookism: Averted.

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* RapeAsDrama: It attempted this by having one of the orcs rape Laura, but it failed due to the fanfic being badly written in general and it failed.
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therefore hard to take seriously.
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RougeAnglesOfSatin: Almost on the same level as ''FanFic/MyImmortal''.
* SaidBookism: Averted. ''Every'' line of dialogue is announced with "said".



* WifeHusbandry

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* WifeHusbandry
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* ShamefulStrip: One of the orcs forcibly strips Laura. This is an impressive feat, since she's chained up at the time.
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* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Laura's only reaction to being whipped, raped, beaten, poisoned, and having her left arm broken is to say "go away you bastard".
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* GratuitousRape: After capturing Laura, the orcs decide to rape her...for some reason.

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* GratuitousRape: After capturing Laura, some of the orcs decide to rape her...for some reason.


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* IWantThemAlive: The Dark Lord gives his orcs permission to do whatever they want to Laura, with one exception: he explicitly forbids them from killing her.
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* {{Lolicon}}: Laura is a baby at the beginning of the fic, and gets raped by orcs and hooks up with Legolas ten years later, making her between ten and maybe thirteen at the most depending on how one defines a baby. It seems probable the author screwed up the timeline rather than intending this, though.

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* WarHasNeverBeenSoMuchFun: Gandalf was supposedly "have a fun time trying to distory the dark lord".



* WarHasNeverBeenSoMuchFun: Gandalf was supposedly "have a fun time trying to distory the dark lord".
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* WarHasNeverBeenSoMuchFun: Gandalf was supposedly "have a fun time trying to distory the dark lord".
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Dark Lord and the Boss of the Orcs are never addressed by name.
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* AerithAndBob: This girl's name is "Laura". In Middle-earth. The author's name also seems to be Laura. [[SelfInsert My oh my...]]

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* AerithAndBob: This girl's name is "Laura". In Middle-earth. The author's name [[TheDanza also seems to be Laura.Laura]]. [[SelfInsert My oh my...]]
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* WHAMLine:

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* WHAMLine:WhamLine:
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* CommonMarySueTraits: Laura "got a power and she can distoy us all the bad guys".
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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: They completely fail to stop laura from being kidnapped, and barely even react to it

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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy The Gards Must Be Crazy]]: They completely fail to stop laura from being kidnapped, and barely even react to it
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* DeusExMachina: During Gandalf's fight with Sauron, Frodo randomly appears and says he destroyed the One Ring.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: In order, every time, both Laura ''and'' Legolas were 'bet' up, raped, and then were given "posion".

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* ColdBloodedTorture: In order, every time, both Laura ''and'' Legolas were was 'bet' up, raped, and then were given "posion"."posion", and Legolas claims the same thing happened to him.
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* EmotionlessGirl: Laura seems remarkably calm about being abducted and tortured by orcs.

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* EmotionlessGirl: DullSurprise / EmotionlessGirl / MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Laura seems remarkably calm about being abducted and tortured by orcs.orcs, and her friends seem remarkably calm about her condition when they find her.
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* OhCrap: Sauron has this reaction when Frodo says the One Ring has been destroyed.
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The story can be found [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120615115007/http://www.freewebs.com/me_gaya/legolas.html here]], courtesy of the WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum. Wiki/TVTropes will take no responsibility for brain damage suffered should you choose to read it.[[note]] [[DrivenToSuicide *Cttttlik!* *BANG!*]] [[/note]] The [[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=legolas+by+laura&search_type=&aq=f dramatic readings]] may help to soften the blow. There is also a review done by WebVideo/TheFanFictionCritic for it, which might help more. And now a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IECKGp-tLb0 live-action trailer]], complete with ''MyChemicalRomance'' and a baffling shoutout to ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo''. God help us all. There's also a riffing found [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5948484/9/Mystery_Science_Theater_1000 here]] and a PPC mission [[https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1PZ2DmYKQ2Z0-sW425KcdTXyUBkTURKfn8RiUxUKum44 here]]. Finally, a short film combined with dramatic reading can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMbjK1m6alg here]].

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The story can be found [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120615115007/http://www.freewebs.com/me_gaya/legolas.html here]], courtesy of the WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum. Wiki/TVTropes will take no responsibility for brain damage suffered should you choose to read it.[[note]] [[DrivenToSuicide *Cttttlik!* *BANG!*]] [[/note]] The [[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=legolas+by+laura&search_type=&aq=f dramatic readings]] may help to soften the blow. There is also a review done by WebVideo/TheFanFictionCritic for it, which might help more. And now a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IECKGp-tLb0 live-action trailer]], complete with ''MyChemicalRomance'' Music/MyChemicalRomance and a baffling shoutout to ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo''. God help us all. There's also a riffing found [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5948484/9/Mystery_Science_Theater_1000 here]] and a PPC mission [[https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1PZ2DmYKQ2Z0-sW425KcdTXyUBkTURKfn8RiUxUKum44 here]]. Finally, a short film combined with dramatic reading can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMbjK1m6alg here]].



* [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy The Gards Must be Crazy]]: They completely fail to stop laura from being kidnapped, and barely even react to it

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* [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy The Gards Must be Crazy]]: TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: They completely fail to stop laura from being kidnapped, and barely even react to it



* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Almost on the same level as ''MyImmortal''.

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* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Almost on the same level as ''MyImmortal''.''FanFic/MyImmortal''.
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The story can be found [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120615115007/http://www.freewebs.com/me_gaya/legolas.html here]], courtesy of the ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum. TVTropes will take no responsibility for brain damage suffered should you choose to read it.[[note]] [[DrivenToSuicide *Cttttlik!* *BANG!*]] [[/note]] The [[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=legolas+by+laura&search_type=&aq=f dramatic readings]] may help to soften the blow. There is also a review done by WebVideo/TheFanFictionCritic for it, which might help more. And now a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IECKGp-tLb0 live-action trailer]], complete with ''MyChemicalRomance'' and a baffling shoutout to ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo''. God help us all. There's also a riffing found [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5948484/9/Mystery_Science_Theater_1000 here]] and a PPC mission [[https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1PZ2DmYKQ2Z0-sW425KcdTXyUBkTURKfn8RiUxUKum44 here]]. Finally, a short film combined with dramatic reading can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMbjK1m6alg here]].

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The story can be found [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120615115007/http://www.freewebs.com/me_gaya/legolas.html here]], courtesy of the ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum. TVTropes WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum. Wiki/TVTropes will take no responsibility for brain damage suffered should you choose to read it.[[note]] [[DrivenToSuicide *Cttttlik!* *BANG!*]] [[/note]] The [[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=legolas+by+laura&search_type=&aq=f dramatic readings]] may help to soften the blow. There is also a review done by WebVideo/TheFanFictionCritic for it, which might help more. And now a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IECKGp-tLb0 live-action trailer]], complete with ''MyChemicalRomance'' and a baffling shoutout to ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo''. God help us all. There's also a riffing found [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5948484/9/Mystery_Science_Theater_1000 here]] and a PPC mission [[https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1PZ2DmYKQ2Z0-sW425KcdTXyUBkTURKfn8RiUxUKum44 here]]. Finally, a short film combined with dramatic reading can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMbjK1m6alg here]].
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* MythologyGag: Apparently in this case one ''does'' simply walk into Mordor.

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Legolas' own rape by orcs, and Laura's never-used "power".


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* {{Lolicon}}: Laura is a baby at the beginning of the fic, and gets raped by orcs and hooks up with Legolas ten years later, making her between ten and maybe thirteen at the most depending on how one defines a baby. It seems probable the author screwed up the timeline rather than intending this, though.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Legolas' own rape by orcs, and Laura's never-used "power".
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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Gandalf now has the power to teleport Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin from the Shire to Mordor simply by wishing it, even though [[GameBreaker if he could do that in canon the books would have been significantly shorter]].

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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Gandalf now has the power to teleport Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin from the Shire to Mordor simply by wishing it, even though [[GameBreaker if he could do that in canon the books would have been significantly shorter]]. Laura's power with which she "can distoy us all the bad guys" would count if she ever actually used it.

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