Disclaimer: Everything in this story belongs to Tolkien except my five OCs.

Rating: K now, possibly T in later chapters due to violence.

A/N: Thank you to Nilli15 for being the first person to comment on the first chapter of my story (it is greatly appreciated) - this being my first story and all! :) Many thanks to you, my friend! Also, sorry or sloppy work, typos, grammatical mistakes, etc. I was writing this sort-of under pressure, trying to get it done in one day, and so some of the parts might not go together like they should (such as in the last chapter I said it was April and then I wrote further down it was June...it's April...sorry about that - but by the time I spotted that it was too late). Eventually it will be edited, but it is not this day! Teehee :)

And there are also references to different fandoms! (like in the last chapter I mentioned Jurassic Park, etc.)

Chapter 2

The boys' room was very much like the girls' room. Everything looked the same except the view. Instead of seeing Bilbo's hobbit-hole and the west of everything, they saw the other end of Hobbiton: the east. But their view was still as breathtaking as the girls' view.

After everyone was done unpacking their suitcases, both boys and girls, met outside their doors, waiting to go exploring with the little time they had left - actually they did have hours and hours, but they wanted to see everything single thing there. When both groups were outside, Jess exclaimed (exhilarated) to the boys:

"Guess what, guess what!"

"What?" Both Josh and Isaac said in unison.

"We saw these two actors playing Bilbo and Gandalf who reenacted the second scene from the fist Hobbit movie! It was crazy awesome!" She smiled as she remembered everything that had happened. They reenacted it almost perfectly, at least in her eyes.

"Wait - really?" Josh said, his brows raised in disbelief.

"Yeah!"

"It's true," Ruby confirmed. "We can see Bag-End from our window. Our view is breathtaking!"

Zoe grabbed her boyfriend's hand as she said, "I wish you could've seen it!" She smiled happily and stared into Josh's brown eyes. "Drat, we should've taken pictures!"

"Yeah, I wish you would've. It sounded great!" Josh sighed as he squeezed his girlfriend's hand playfully.

"Okay, so are we going to go 'exploring' now?" Jess asked, twirling a bit of her hair around her finger. She did that often - usually out of habit.

"Mhm!" Isaac said, looking at the four just in case he was wrong. He wasn't though.

"Let us be off then!" Josh said, raising his free hand out in front of him.

And with that, the five young adults headed down the wooden stairs and into the - guessed - eating area; and then they went into the check-in/check-out room was. And soon they were out of the hotel and outside - which they were hit by a gentle refreshing breeze.

The hot sun was beating down on the five as they walked around for hours and hours, enjoying every minute of the set. Every now and then they each removed their cameras from around their necks and took pictures of the hobbit-holes and the free roaming pigs and sheep that they would occasionally see. And another thing that they would see, was people. Not normally dressed people like the fiver were, but people dressed up as hobbit-folk. And to top it all off, they were small people - people who actually LOOKED like REAL hobbits! They wore the exact same clothes as most of the hobbits did in the movies, and most of the were smoking long wooden pipes - like Bilbo did.

"The guys running this place must pay close attention to detail! Every once in a while I see small people walking around who look EXACTLY like hobbits!" Isaac said, who was slightly confused at this.

"Yeah, so do I! It's kind-of weird, but at the same time it's awesome!" Zoe added, looking at Josh with a smile. He looked back at her and grinned.

Soon the five could see the setting of the sun, and they still had not yet gotten to Bag-End. They had started west and worked their way east. As the sun slowly fell behind the tall mountains in the far background, small yellow lanterns hanging from the ceiling slowly started to turn on, giving off a very movie-like essence. While this was happening, they finally made their way towards Bag-End for the first time. When they had opened the wooden front gate they were all very surprised to see a glowing blue rune on the door.

"This is the place!" Joked Josh. "Hey! We could pretend like we're the dwarves going into Bilbo's house!"

"Oh! I've always wanted to do that scene!" Zoe exclaimed excitedly. "I call being Dwalin!"

"Issac and I can be Fili and Kili!" Suggested Jess hastily.

"Does that make me Balin?" Josh said. "Ruby, you should be Bilbo!"

"Uhm, okay, sure," agreed Ruby doubtfully. "What do you want me to do?"

"I thought you WANTED to go to Bag-End! So go inside your hobbit-hole, Mr. Baggins!" Isaac joked with a smile. "No, but you should at least open the door and step inside and see what it looks like."

"I'm going to knock first. I dunno; I just have a 'thing' for knocking on doors before entering." So Ruby knocked on the small round wooden door, painted green, with a little golden knob right in the very middle. After seconds of waiting, everyone encouraged Ruby to just open the door (expecting it to be unlocked) and step inside so they could have some fun for a few minutes.

"Hey, look! There are even lights on inside the hobbit-hole!" Jess pointed out. But just after she said that, they all heard a hing turn from inside and a creak that came from the door - and they all jumped at that. And before they knew what was happening, a small figure dressed in a strange multi-colored robe with curly hair and big furry feet had opened the door. This person looked EXACTLY like Martin Freeman with a his few movie prosthetics and a wig on.

"Woah, guys, I think that's Martin Freeman!" Whispered Zoe after a few seconds had gone by. For a while, after Zoe had spoken, there was complete silence, and all that could be heard was the crickets chirping loudly.

"Uhm, hello?" Said the supposed actor curiously. "C-Can I help you?" It even sounded like Martin!

This prize really went all out on everything! They got an actor who looks and sounds like Martin Freeman. Unless, that is Martin Freeman himself! Thought Ruby.

"Wow, guys, I think it's actually Martin Freeman - except a lot shorter," she said aloud.

"E-Excuse me? Who is this - this Martin, you speak of?" said the person at the door.

"Hey, it's cool dude. We know who you are. By the way, I love you in Sherlock Holmes!" Josh said as he reached for his camera. He soon snapped a quick photo of the actor.

"What - What did you just do with that - that thing?" The supposed actor pointed to the camera that was now around Josh's neck.

"Uh, it's a camera. You should be used to seeing them, right?" Zoe interfered.

"No, not at all. I don't even know who you are or what that thing is. What is a came-ear-a, exactly?" Said Bilbo. It was it actually Bilbo: the reallife Bilbo Baggins of Bag-End, though the five didn't know it at the time. And when they did know, they were utterly bewildered and perplexed.

"Uh, it's what you take pictures with for memories or something like that," Zoe replied. She was now very baffled. This was Martin Freeman, right? How could it not be? He looked and sounded like Martin, but body-wise he didn't really look anything like him; he looked like he was a genuine hobbit.

"So, Mr. Martin, where did you get that wicked costume?" Jess asked, fumbling with a pad and pencil.

"Costume? I beg your pardon. Oh, excuse me, won't you come in?" Bilbo said, who was quite flustered and down right confused as to what these five people where talking about. Actually, his whole day was confused. This was the sixth time a "big person" had come to his hobbit-hole. But these five were the most confusing, by far. He bewildered hobbit scratched his head as the five tall adults entered into his hobbit-hole.

"Wait - are we allowed in here? Like, we're not gonna get get in trouble or anything, correct?" Ruby questioned as she entered into the warm home.

"I should say not!" Chuckled the poor hobbit, closing the door after they all had come in. "This is my hobbit-hole and I invited you in. Why on earth would you get in trouble?" He shook his head and chuckled quietly to himself. He rubbed his hands together. The five gazed around the entry way, awed by the beautiful of it all. And as they were in the light, Bilbo noticed just how strange the strangers looked and dressed. He knit his brows together, trying to think of a time where he had seen such ridiculous clothing.

He couldn't think of a time.

"This place is enormous! It's just like I always imagined!" Jess declared, taking a quick picture with her camera.

"Ah, I beg your pardon? You've heard of Bag-End before? May I ask where you all come from?" The hobbit stared up at the young adults, awaiting a reply.

"Well, New York," Zoe looked, puzzled, at her friends.

"New York? I've never heard of that place before! Is it in Middle-earth?" Bilbo asked.

"Uh, no, it's not," Ruby answered instead. "It's in the United States of America."

"The United States of What?" Bilbo knit his brows together again. Where did these strange people come from? Certainly they're not of this world. Perhaps another?

"Wow, you're a good actor. You should win an award for keeping this good of an act up!" Complimented Jess.

Bilbo paused to think for a moment. Actor? Award? Act? What on earth was this girl talking about? Bilbo, deciding he would try and change the subject, said, "I'm just having supper now; would you all care to join me?"

The five exchanged excited glances. An opportunity to have dinner with Martin Freeman? There was NO WAY they were passing THAT up!

"Yeah!" The five said together.

They then followed Bilbo through an extra room, which eventually lead to a decent sized kitchen. It seemed bigger in real life than in the movies. But they supposed that's how it always was. When they were standing in the kitchen, they looked around, remembering the kitchen where Bilbo had eaten his fish and biscuits the night the dwarves came. And speaking of fish and biscuits, there, on the kitchen table, was the fish and biscuits that Bilbo had started to eat, right before the dwarves came.

"Look, there's the food Bilbo was about to eat before the dwarves came!" whispered Jess to the rest of the group.

"Okay, that's cool! I bet it's fake food, though," said Isaac.

"Yeah, probably."

As the five were taking more pictures of the room and food and sometimes Bilbo, the poor confused hobbit said, "Would you all like some tea, perhaps?"

"Uh, sure," everyone said with a smile. As the hobbit left to go into a different room to get a teapot, the young adults turned to one another and chuckled silently.

"Martin sure is doing good job with his act!" said Josh, still looking around the kitchen.

"I'm not sure it is Martin," Zoe said, shaking her head a little.

"I've been thinking the same thing," said Ruby and Jess at the same time.

"What do you mean?" asked the boys. They both stopped looking around.

"Well," explained Zoe, "I mean, look at this place. It's exactly like the one in The Hobbit. And that was filmed on a set in a building, not actually here here, in Matamata."

"And did you see Martin?" Jess added. "He's really, really small! And he looks exactly like the hobbit in The Hobbit - prothstetics and all!"

"Yeah, and what about the reenactment?" Ruby pointed out. "I don't think they would hire two actors to do the reenactment just for the winners of a contest. It seems kind-of pointless, don't you think?"

"Maybe you're right," her brother said at length. "But, if that's true, then we're actually in Middle-Earth - which is a universe that doesn't exist! So, you're telling me we're in a fictional world?"

"What other explanation is there other than this?" argued Ruby.

"I'm only saying," shrugged Isaac.

And at that moment the hobbit came waddling back into the dining room, holding a cold kettle filled with water. He soon put the handle of kettle over a roaring fire, which boiled the water. "Help yourselves to the fish and biscuits - there's always more where that came from!" He offered happily.

The five thanked the hobbit and sat down on the wooden benches which were in front of the long dining room table. They waited patiently, not saying a word, waiting for their tea to be ready. They were all, pretty much, still as confused as when Zoe had proposed her idea of the five actually being in the fictional world, Middle-Earth. Though it seemed hard to believe, it was deemed the most sensible idea - the other being, of course, that Martin Freeman had shrunk, grown a bit of hair, changed a little face-wise, and had kept up a role for far too long. And once they had all thought about this, Zoe's idea seemed more and more logically.

Soon the kettle was singing, and Bilbo, with a specially cloth, removed it from the small hook above the crackling fire. But no sooner had he done that, the doorbell was rung. And very loudly at that! The hobbit excused himself from the group and waddled over through a room or two, and was soon in front of his little round door. He opened it with curiosity and confusion. And those feelings grew even more stronger within him, when he saw a figure, who stood slightly taller than himself, standing outside his door, bald on the top, wearing a dark green cloak on his stone steps. The figure turned around, his arms folded across his broad chest. As soon as the figure turned around, Bilbo knew immediately that he was certainly not a hobbit, but a dwarf! And Bilbo was soon corrected on that fact when the dwarf said:

"Dwalin, at your service!" And Dwalin bowed deeply.