Disclaimers: I do not own The Lord of the Rings. J.R.R. Tolkien does. All canon material belongs to their respected owners.

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Yes, I am stuck with reading. Pretty much all around I'm struggling to get back into reading. So far, I'm having difficulties finding a good story to get into, fanfiction or otherwise. This story came out of this dilemma.

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Frodo slammed his hardbound red book shut. He simply couldn't find anything he wanted to read in this book, and all of his other books weren't rubbish. He just wasn't in the mood to read anything. His scared blue eyes could see that and he knew it. He needed something to do. He just didn't know when….

….he woke up in a narrow hallway with so many portraits. There were so many books opening up, doors wide open for him to enter. The portraits called to him, each one depicting some story of interest. Then he noticed the patterns and became positively bored with them. There was nothing for him to do.

He wasn't alone, for one of the characters in the portraits, King Richard, was also in dire need to find something that sparked his interest. Farmer, Brewer and Blacksmith were all good titles, but he was more interested in being king and no one wanted him to be king. He was stuck, much like Frodo who was stuck in his own dilemma.

Would he ever snap out of this?

He didn't know. He just hoped the next story that came along would be a good one. Then again, was he ever getting out of this dilemma? He honestly did not know. Maybe if he stumbled into one of these portraits… and he fell through, right into some tall green grass hidden inside a misty forest.

Hey! Now this was a story he couldn't wait to read. He just wondered what might happen next. Oh boy. What was he getting himself into this time?

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Thanks for reading. :) Not sure if I want to make this into a drabble series. Feel free to let me know in the reviews. This may help ease my mind a little, for the time being. Thanks. :)

Footnotes:

King Richard comes from ABC's television show "Galavant".