Author's note This fanfic is being written by more then one person. THe
only person I hold credit for is Keira.
Joan Lee's day started tragically as she was demoted from her day job. She was working as the top Marketing Officer for a company in Manila and though it was a start-up company she knew there were high hopes of success what with their product focusing on the information technology industry which was a boom in her city. She was transfered to the Training Department where she had to deal with smart-mouths all day. This wasn't the way Joan would have liked to spend that fine Monday morning but she had no choice. She needed the money countless bills for her credit cards, her car loan, and her apartment were pushing her to the brink of depression.
At the end of that day, she finally decided to slow down and relax. She opened her computer and type the words www.thetolkienforum.com, pressed enter, and as she browsed through the threads a smile started in her face. Her online friends were having fun, and she thought some of them maybe having the same crappy day as her but they still manage to come up with humorous remarks. One thread caught her eye: There was a plan for a convention come next year. She was ecstatic, finally meeting good friends, perhaps they'll turn out to be real friends indeed! Seeing the people who have astounded her with their writing, or their humour, or even their looks, was too tempting to resist.
She made plans, and decided she's going to the convention. It will be held in Wellington, New Zealand near the set of the movie Lord of the rings done by Peter Jackson. "That's near, I think I would love to see New Zealand next year." and so plans were made and Joan was set to attend the convention next year. __________________
Nick Stewart pulled his truck into the garage, then ran inside to finish his homework and grab a bite to eat before bed. He fished around in the fridge for a while until he found some cold chicken and a soda. His dad caught him while he was stomping up the stairs to his room, forcing him to explain why he was just showing up after one in the morning. Something about a celebratory party for the football game he had a large hand in winning. While his dad went back to bed, he turned his computer on and started ripping meat from bones.
He finished around three in the morning and decided to have a little fun before going to bed. Some place called The Tolkien Forum Dot Com. He had run into it after watching that Fellowship Of The Ring movie. He mostly hung around the movie section, but showed up in a few other sections when the title of the thread caught his eye. This time, he saw something about a convention in New Zealand.
The next morning, before heading to school, he mentioned it to his mom and got the approval to go. Mostly since he had an uncle that lived in Australia and of course, because his parents never said no to him. __________________
Keira Rawstone had been having the most horrible day, her boss had threatened to fire her, her boyfriend Matt had broken up with her, and she had lost her best board to Brandon Riles , in a surfing competition. She came home that night from getting a vanilla frappaciono (sp) at the cornor store, after arguing with her older sister to get off the computer , she finally got on. Keira went to google.com to look at pictures of Elijah Wood, when one of the links came up for the Tolkien Forum, when she clicked on it, she realized it was for the Lord of the Rings, she knew what it was cause she had gone to see fotr and tt with Matt when they were going out, she loved the movies, but had never read the books. She was about to exit out of it when she saw a thread that read something about a convention in New Zealand. The more she read, the more she liked. She called up the airport and made reservations to go. She didn't care if her parents told her she couldn't go, she would sneak out if she had to __________________
"Theodore!!!" came a call from downstairs, "The phone's for you!"
Theodore only barely turned his head from the computer screen to acknowledge the voice. "Ok, Mom!" He called and then, clicking once with his black mouse button, he pushed hard with both feet so that the comfy computer chair just slid across the plastic rug from the desk he was at to another desk behind him. With a firm stomp of his feet on the floor to stop the chair he spun quickly around and scanned the messy desktop in front of him for the telephone. Papers, trash, pens, folders, office items, and whatnot covered the surface of the desk, and it wasn't until Theodore sifted through a few piles of paper that he finally found the phone.
"Hey!" He said in a husky voice, pushing off the floor again and sliding back to the computer desk with a flourish.
"Hey man, what's up?" Came a voice on the other end. It was Joe, Theodore's bestfriend and mental rival.
"Dude, you're never going to guess where I'm going next summer. . . ."
"Montana?" Joe joked.
Ted threw back his head and laughed, giving his eyes a glimpse of the white ceiling above him. "Heck no! Guess again!"
"You're going to Hawaii with Kara."
"Riiight . . . you know that'd never fly with Mom and Dad! I'll have to wait for college for that one." Ted laughed again. "But I wish . . . this is almost as good though."
"I give up man, just tell me!"
"You give up? Wow, I never though I'd see the day. . . ." Ted teased.
"Yeah, yeah, rub it in! At least it wasn't me who forgot my physics project last week. . . ."
"Oh, whatever!" Ted rolled his eyes and picked up a piece of paper. Wadding it into a ball, he threw it into a nearby garbage can. Swish. He surveyed the clean computer desk with satisfaction and ignored the messy desk a few feet behind him. "You know that Tolkien website I've been trying to get you to join for the past few months?"
"Yeah . . . that place that takes up far too much of your time that you could be spending elsewhere? The debates do sound like fun, and I know you kick butt in those, but I can't see the fun of spending my hours on the computer like that!"
"Dude, they're having a convention and I'm GOING!!!!!!" Theodore clicked emphatically with his mouse button. A dark green screen popped up in front of him and he began to read. "It's going to be in Wellington, New Zealand! I'm going to get to see all the places the movie was made . . . I'm going to get to hang out with these people I've met on here and talk Tolkien ALL DAY!"
"Do you mean to tell me that your parents are letting you do this?" Joe's voice was quiet.
"Yeah, it's my Senior trip, man! Next summer . . . Senior trip . . . I'll fly across the ocean and live in the land 'o Middle-earth." Ted's head bobbed back and forth in a bragging fashion as he leaned back comfortably in his chair, hands behind his head.
"Can I come?"
"Hahaha . . . I can't pay for both of us, and besides you'd have to join the forum! But yeah, you can come if you can manage to talk your parents into it."
"Dude, I'll try!"
"It'd be a trip of a lifetime, that's for sure!"
Joan Lee's day started tragically as she was demoted from her day job. She was working as the top Marketing Officer for a company in Manila and though it was a start-up company she knew there were high hopes of success what with their product focusing on the information technology industry which was a boom in her city. She was transfered to the Training Department where she had to deal with smart-mouths all day. This wasn't the way Joan would have liked to spend that fine Monday morning but she had no choice. She needed the money countless bills for her credit cards, her car loan, and her apartment were pushing her to the brink of depression.
At the end of that day, she finally decided to slow down and relax. She opened her computer and type the words www.thetolkienforum.com, pressed enter, and as she browsed through the threads a smile started in her face. Her online friends were having fun, and she thought some of them maybe having the same crappy day as her but they still manage to come up with humorous remarks. One thread caught her eye: There was a plan for a convention come next year. She was ecstatic, finally meeting good friends, perhaps they'll turn out to be real friends indeed! Seeing the people who have astounded her with their writing, or their humour, or even their looks, was too tempting to resist.
She made plans, and decided she's going to the convention. It will be held in Wellington, New Zealand near the set of the movie Lord of the rings done by Peter Jackson. "That's near, I think I would love to see New Zealand next year." and so plans were made and Joan was set to attend the convention next year. __________________
Nick Stewart pulled his truck into the garage, then ran inside to finish his homework and grab a bite to eat before bed. He fished around in the fridge for a while until he found some cold chicken and a soda. His dad caught him while he was stomping up the stairs to his room, forcing him to explain why he was just showing up after one in the morning. Something about a celebratory party for the football game he had a large hand in winning. While his dad went back to bed, he turned his computer on and started ripping meat from bones.
He finished around three in the morning and decided to have a little fun before going to bed. Some place called The Tolkien Forum Dot Com. He had run into it after watching that Fellowship Of The Ring movie. He mostly hung around the movie section, but showed up in a few other sections when the title of the thread caught his eye. This time, he saw something about a convention in New Zealand.
The next morning, before heading to school, he mentioned it to his mom and got the approval to go. Mostly since he had an uncle that lived in Australia and of course, because his parents never said no to him. __________________
Keira Rawstone had been having the most horrible day, her boss had threatened to fire her, her boyfriend Matt had broken up with her, and she had lost her best board to Brandon Riles , in a surfing competition. She came home that night from getting a vanilla frappaciono (sp) at the cornor store, after arguing with her older sister to get off the computer , she finally got on. Keira went to google.com to look at pictures of Elijah Wood, when one of the links came up for the Tolkien Forum, when she clicked on it, she realized it was for the Lord of the Rings, she knew what it was cause she had gone to see fotr and tt with Matt when they were going out, she loved the movies, but had never read the books. She was about to exit out of it when she saw a thread that read something about a convention in New Zealand. The more she read, the more she liked. She called up the airport and made reservations to go. She didn't care if her parents told her she couldn't go, she would sneak out if she had to __________________
"Theodore!!!" came a call from downstairs, "The phone's for you!"
Theodore only barely turned his head from the computer screen to acknowledge the voice. "Ok, Mom!" He called and then, clicking once with his black mouse button, he pushed hard with both feet so that the comfy computer chair just slid across the plastic rug from the desk he was at to another desk behind him. With a firm stomp of his feet on the floor to stop the chair he spun quickly around and scanned the messy desktop in front of him for the telephone. Papers, trash, pens, folders, office items, and whatnot covered the surface of the desk, and it wasn't until Theodore sifted through a few piles of paper that he finally found the phone.
"Hey!" He said in a husky voice, pushing off the floor again and sliding back to the computer desk with a flourish.
"Hey man, what's up?" Came a voice on the other end. It was Joe, Theodore's bestfriend and mental rival.
"Dude, you're never going to guess where I'm going next summer. . . ."
"Montana?" Joe joked.
Ted threw back his head and laughed, giving his eyes a glimpse of the white ceiling above him. "Heck no! Guess again!"
"You're going to Hawaii with Kara."
"Riiight . . . you know that'd never fly with Mom and Dad! I'll have to wait for college for that one." Ted laughed again. "But I wish . . . this is almost as good though."
"I give up man, just tell me!"
"You give up? Wow, I never though I'd see the day. . . ." Ted teased.
"Yeah, yeah, rub it in! At least it wasn't me who forgot my physics project last week. . . ."
"Oh, whatever!" Ted rolled his eyes and picked up a piece of paper. Wadding it into a ball, he threw it into a nearby garbage can. Swish. He surveyed the clean computer desk with satisfaction and ignored the messy desk a few feet behind him. "You know that Tolkien website I've been trying to get you to join for the past few months?"
"Yeah . . . that place that takes up far too much of your time that you could be spending elsewhere? The debates do sound like fun, and I know you kick butt in those, but I can't see the fun of spending my hours on the computer like that!"
"Dude, they're having a convention and I'm GOING!!!!!!" Theodore clicked emphatically with his mouse button. A dark green screen popped up in front of him and he began to read. "It's going to be in Wellington, New Zealand! I'm going to get to see all the places the movie was made . . . I'm going to get to hang out with these people I've met on here and talk Tolkien ALL DAY!"
"Do you mean to tell me that your parents are letting you do this?" Joe's voice was quiet.
"Yeah, it's my Senior trip, man! Next summer . . . Senior trip . . . I'll fly across the ocean and live in the land 'o Middle-earth." Ted's head bobbed back and forth in a bragging fashion as he leaned back comfortably in his chair, hands behind his head.
"Can I come?"
"Hahaha . . . I can't pay for both of us, and besides you'd have to join the forum! But yeah, you can come if you can manage to talk your parents into it."
"Dude, I'll try!"
"It'd be a trip of a lifetime, that's for sure!"