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Middle Earth Community School
by TigerBabe
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Disclaimer: I own nothing. I am but a poor student who lives off beans on toast. Dont sue, unless you wish to deprive me of my beans on toast, and thus starve me.
Warnings: Some mild language... but apart from that, nothing much... oh, a hung over Elf, does that need a warning?
Authors Notes: Yes, I know I'm strange - I'm the first to admit it. And so, in an alternate universe, it happened that the Fellowship were all much younger, and happened to be in secondary school. This alternate universe also has lots of things that we have in our universe. Dont complain about it. This is based on the British education system, which, by the way, sucks soooo badly. It starts half way through the school year.
Just a quick run through of ages and years of the Fellowship:
Gandalf - Ancient, Teacher.
Aragorn - 16 years old, in year 11.
Legolas - 16 years old, in year 11.
Boromir - 15 years old, in year 11.
Gimli - 15 years old, in year 10.
Frodo - 15 years old, in year 10.
Sam - 14 years old, in year 9.
Merry - 14 years old, in year 9.
Pippin - 13 years old, in year 9.
Can I also state, that the description of "Shire Estate" is a description of my own estate... not all council estates are like this!!!
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Chapter 1
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Pippin, for some unforseen reason, was in a bad mood. It could have had something to do with the fact he'd slept in, and had to miss breakfast, or possibly it had more to do with the fact his homework was due for English, Maths, Science, French, Geography... well, you get the picture. Pippin isnt the most well organised Hobbit on the face of Middle Earth, but he tries his best.
And so it was, with a cold poptart in his hand, he left his house and went on his way to school via his cousin Merry's house, which was just around the corner on the same estate, which the council had decided to name "Shire Estate," because apparently, before they bulldozed the area, there was a beautiful shire filled with green grass and tall trees, and beautiful gardens. Unfortunately, when the council went ahead with their new estate plan, they totally ruined it. Now, the area was filled with annoying children and even worse parents.
Merry was actually in a fantastic mood compared to Pippin; he only had detention for the rest of the week, and then he was free to do whatever he wanted after school. The doorbell rang, and off Merry went, grabbing his coat and bag as he ran toward the front door.
"Hey Pip," he said as he closed the door behind him. His parents had already left earlier in the morning for work, and had left him behind as usual. He didnt have to go to school - his parents would probably never notice; but he did so all the same, because at least there, he wouldnt be bored out of his skull... except in Gandalf's class.
"Got everythin'?" Pippin asked as he turned to walk down the drive with his cousin.
"Yup, sure have," Merry replied. They headed off toward their school, Middle Earth Community School.
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"Bloody hell, YES, for the hundredth time, I'm up!" Frodo cried down the stairs at his Uncle, whom he lived with. Frodo's parents had died when he was little in a boating accident. Apparently there'd been a misunderstanding, which lead to Drogo (that's Frodo's father) thinking it would be safe to have a BBQ in the boat.
As soon as Frodo's Uncle Bilbo stopped yelling, and seemed to believe that Frodo was up, the said young Hobbit pulled his covers back over his head, and closed his eyes in an attempt to get more sleep, however much in vain it may seem. Another 5 minutes passed, and Bilbo opened the door to Frodo's room, finding the 15 year old snoring quietly in his bed.
Bilbo did what any normal person would do in this situation - he grabbed the covers, and pulled them off the bed.
"GET UP!" he shouted at Frodo.
The sudden freshness of the air around him caused Frodo to sit bolt upright and proclaim, "I wasnt asleep! I was just resting my eyes..."
"Sure, now get ready, you're going to be late for school!" Bilbo stated quite angrily. He picked up Frodo's school uniform, and threw it at him. Frodo, who was clad only in his boxers, caught the clothes fairly well, considering he was half asleep.
Bilbo smirked at his work; he seemed to have got Frodo to wake up. He turned and walked out the room.
As soon as his bedroom door was closed, Frodo stuck his middle finger up in the direction in which his Uncle had left.
With an exaspirated sigh, Frodo crossed his legs, and leaned over to his CD player, and hit the on button. The sounds of Linkin Park's 'One Step Closer' began to pulsate around the room. Frodo then slid to the end of his bed to get dressed.
As if on cue, as soon as the chorus started, Frodo heard shouts from downstairs of "Turn that racket off!" Muttering something about how uncles dont have any musical taste, he leaned over again, and turned the volume up. To drown out the sound of shouts from downstairs, you see.
Frodo was quickly dressed and running out the door with about 5 minutes til school started.
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Boromir was on his way to school, having left his younger brother Faramir in the house, still getting ready - he could be really vain sometimes, y'know? Just because he has a girlfriend... Boromir muttered something about damn love struck idiot brothers, but was pulled out of his train of thought by a short dumpy fellow running up to him shouting "Boromir, Boromir!"
Boromir rolled his eyes, "What is it, Gimli?" he asked.
"Where's Faramir?" the Dwarf asked quizzically.
"Do I look like his keeper to you?" Boromir threw his hands in the air before walking off. He was quite sick of having the year 10's coming up to him constantly and asking if they knew where his damn brother was. How should he know? It's not like they spoke at all anyway...
"Pfft, well excuse me for asking," Gimli turned to walk away from him, but soon realised that that was pointless, as they were both heading in the same direction.
They got to school just before Merry and Pippin, and went to assembly ontime.
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Merry and Pippin finally reached the school gates at 8:45am, only to be informed by Sam who had been waiting for them, that they were supposed to be in an all school assembly. Being late for assembly means being made to stand on the stage, and have the rest of the school snigger at you, as well as the manditory dinner time detention, and sometimes after school.
And so, with the speed only a Hobbit with the threat of detention during *dinner* break could, they ran like the wind to the main hall.
Luckily, Sauron the headmaster was late, and they just made it in time. So did Frodo, much to his own disappointment.
Frodo always loved to arrive late for assembly, and to flick Sauron off before taking a seat in the back. Of course, this *always* seriously pissed the headmaster off, but it was fun to see the fire in his eyes.
When Sauron finally did arrive, he scanned the pupils assembled quickly, looking for the human and the Elf who were *never* on time.
With an esasperated sigh, he gave up, and asked, "Where, pray tell, are Legolas and Aragorn?"
A few shrugs and "I dunno's" from the crowd were all he got, and all he ever got. So, he turned to his assistant Saruman, and said "Phone their flat, tell them that if they dont get their asses' in school in the next half hour, I'm expelling them."
It was an empty threat - he used it very, very often, but no-one in the history of Middle Earth Community School were kicked out. Some of them had gone missing... sure, but none had been actually kicked out.
And so, Saruman went off to his office, and picked up the phone to dial the number Legolas and Aragorn had provided when they moved out of their care homes when they turned 16.
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In Legolas and Aragorn's flat, the ringing served as a wake up call for the human and the Elf, who were extremely hung over, and had camped out in the bathroom for the night.
Legolas heard the phone first; one of the problems with his Elven hearing, was that when hung over, it tripled, and thus a mouse scampering across the carpet in the 3rd flat above him could be heard loud and clear. And, as with hangovers, loud noises = bad.
On the first tone of the phone, the blonde Elf heaved up in the toliet, which he had been sleeping over due to the activities of the night before.
Of course, the sound of Legolas throwing up, woke Aragorn, who had crashed out in the bath tub. Aragorn groaned loudly as he moved.
"Oooohhh, my back" he moaned. Sleeping in the bathtub had evidently been crossed off the list of places where Aragorn would sleep.
"Please..." Legolas whimpered, "no loud noises, or sudden movements... or bright lights..."
Aragorn sniggered slightly, as he lifted himself out of the tub. "You okay?" he asked his Elven friend as he placed a hand on Legolas's back, and rubbed it gently.
Legolas turned to face him, "What you do think?" Legolas lifted himself slowly, "Argh, now I remember why Elves dont drink..."
Aragorn sniggered some more. And then he remembered the phone.
"Shit, phone!" he legged it out the bathroom, and scrambled around the livingroom to find the phone. It was still ringing luckily; Saruman had found that it sometimes took up to and including 50 rings for the inhabitants of the flat to answer.
"What?" Aragorn asked quickly, as he picked up the phone.
"Hello Aragorn, this is Saruman, calling on behalf of Sauron the headmaster. Are you aware of the time?" Saruman's voice asked with a snide tone.
"Uhh... time I were in school?" Aragorn ventured.
"Damn right it is, and Legolas too - Sauron says that if you two dont get your backsides here fast, you're out of this school."
"Okily," Aragorn said, putting on his sugar sweet voice, "I'll be right there, you see, unfortunately, my alarm clock was broken last night - one of the neighbours was over and accidently stood on it..."
"I dont want your lame excuses, Aragorn, I want you in school NOW!" Saruman shouted.
Aragorn quickly pulled the reciever from his ear to make sure he didnt go deaf. "Righty-ho, on my way!" Aragorn quickly slammed down the phone and went back into the bathroom.
"Well, that was the lovely Headmasters assistant Saruman on the phone, I think he wants us in school... now?" Aragorn said, as he pulled Legolas through and into the livingroom.
They quickly got dressed, in their version of the school uniform, which involved alot more black than was compulsary, and a few more chains and make-up too. Legolas quickly made time to change his lip and tongue piercings, so he had a spider through his tongue, and a ring through his lip, and then they were off. They didnt bother with bags, nor pens or pencils.
They took their time as they walked, commenting on various things, such as trees, and houses, and walls, and interesting patterns chewing gum had made on the pavement.
They finally reached the school at about 9:30am - which all things considered, was quite early for them. Unfortunately, it wasnt early enough for Sauron, who was rather annoyed at the two rebellious students.
And so, he called on them using the intercom as soon as he saw them enter the building.
"Would Legolas Greenleaf and Aragorn Elessar report to the Headmasters room at once!"
Legolas and Aragorn looked at eachother, and did what they usually did in these circumstances. Went to class.
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TBC... if you want me to! Review, and tell me what you think - is it worth carrying on?
Some extra notes:
Frodo's morning habits are exactly like mine were when I was in school...
Legolas's appearance is based on mine, though I dont have my lip pierced anymore *sulks* damn father threatened to kick me out if I didnt take it out... pah, shoulda kept it...
Aragorn Elessar... I used Elessar as his surname, because, quite frankly, I dont think Aragorn had a *real* surname... if he does, pleeeaassseee let me know.
Middle Earth Community School
by TigerBabe
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Disclaimer: I own nothing. I am but a poor student who lives off beans on toast. Dont sue, unless you wish to deprive me of my beans on toast, and thus starve me.
Warnings: Some mild language... but apart from that, nothing much... oh, a hung over Elf, does that need a warning?
Authors Notes: Yes, I know I'm strange - I'm the first to admit it. And so, in an alternate universe, it happened that the Fellowship were all much younger, and happened to be in secondary school. This alternate universe also has lots of things that we have in our universe. Dont complain about it. This is based on the British education system, which, by the way, sucks soooo badly. It starts half way through the school year.
Just a quick run through of ages and years of the Fellowship:
Gandalf - Ancient, Teacher.
Aragorn - 16 years old, in year 11.
Legolas - 16 years old, in year 11.
Boromir - 15 years old, in year 11.
Gimli - 15 years old, in year 10.
Frodo - 15 years old, in year 10.
Sam - 14 years old, in year 9.
Merry - 14 years old, in year 9.
Pippin - 13 years old, in year 9.
Can I also state, that the description of "Shire Estate" is a description of my own estate... not all council estates are like this!!!
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Chapter 1
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Pippin, for some unforseen reason, was in a bad mood. It could have had something to do with the fact he'd slept in, and had to miss breakfast, or possibly it had more to do with the fact his homework was due for English, Maths, Science, French, Geography... well, you get the picture. Pippin isnt the most well organised Hobbit on the face of Middle Earth, but he tries his best.
And so it was, with a cold poptart in his hand, he left his house and went on his way to school via his cousin Merry's house, which was just around the corner on the same estate, which the council had decided to name "Shire Estate," because apparently, before they bulldozed the area, there was a beautiful shire filled with green grass and tall trees, and beautiful gardens. Unfortunately, when the council went ahead with their new estate plan, they totally ruined it. Now, the area was filled with annoying children and even worse parents.
Merry was actually in a fantastic mood compared to Pippin; he only had detention for the rest of the week, and then he was free to do whatever he wanted after school. The doorbell rang, and off Merry went, grabbing his coat and bag as he ran toward the front door.
"Hey Pip," he said as he closed the door behind him. His parents had already left earlier in the morning for work, and had left him behind as usual. He didnt have to go to school - his parents would probably never notice; but he did so all the same, because at least there, he wouldnt be bored out of his skull... except in Gandalf's class.
"Got everythin'?" Pippin asked as he turned to walk down the drive with his cousin.
"Yup, sure have," Merry replied. They headed off toward their school, Middle Earth Community School.
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"Bloody hell, YES, for the hundredth time, I'm up!" Frodo cried down the stairs at his Uncle, whom he lived with. Frodo's parents had died when he was little in a boating accident. Apparently there'd been a misunderstanding, which lead to Drogo (that's Frodo's father) thinking it would be safe to have a BBQ in the boat.
As soon as Frodo's Uncle Bilbo stopped yelling, and seemed to believe that Frodo was up, the said young Hobbit pulled his covers back over his head, and closed his eyes in an attempt to get more sleep, however much in vain it may seem. Another 5 minutes passed, and Bilbo opened the door to Frodo's room, finding the 15 year old snoring quietly in his bed.
Bilbo did what any normal person would do in this situation - he grabbed the covers, and pulled them off the bed.
"GET UP!" he shouted at Frodo.
The sudden freshness of the air around him caused Frodo to sit bolt upright and proclaim, "I wasnt asleep! I was just resting my eyes..."
"Sure, now get ready, you're going to be late for school!" Bilbo stated quite angrily. He picked up Frodo's school uniform, and threw it at him. Frodo, who was clad only in his boxers, caught the clothes fairly well, considering he was half asleep.
Bilbo smirked at his work; he seemed to have got Frodo to wake up. He turned and walked out the room.
As soon as his bedroom door was closed, Frodo stuck his middle finger up in the direction in which his Uncle had left.
With an exaspirated sigh, Frodo crossed his legs, and leaned over to his CD player, and hit the on button. The sounds of Linkin Park's 'One Step Closer' began to pulsate around the room. Frodo then slid to the end of his bed to get dressed.
As if on cue, as soon as the chorus started, Frodo heard shouts from downstairs of "Turn that racket off!" Muttering something about how uncles dont have any musical taste, he leaned over again, and turned the volume up. To drown out the sound of shouts from downstairs, you see.
Frodo was quickly dressed and running out the door with about 5 minutes til school started.
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Boromir was on his way to school, having left his younger brother Faramir in the house, still getting ready - he could be really vain sometimes, y'know? Just because he has a girlfriend... Boromir muttered something about damn love struck idiot brothers, but was pulled out of his train of thought by a short dumpy fellow running up to him shouting "Boromir, Boromir!"
Boromir rolled his eyes, "What is it, Gimli?" he asked.
"Where's Faramir?" the Dwarf asked quizzically.
"Do I look like his keeper to you?" Boromir threw his hands in the air before walking off. He was quite sick of having the year 10's coming up to him constantly and asking if they knew where his damn brother was. How should he know? It's not like they spoke at all anyway...
"Pfft, well excuse me for asking," Gimli turned to walk away from him, but soon realised that that was pointless, as they were both heading in the same direction.
They got to school just before Merry and Pippin, and went to assembly ontime.
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Merry and Pippin finally reached the school gates at 8:45am, only to be informed by Sam who had been waiting for them, that they were supposed to be in an all school assembly. Being late for assembly means being made to stand on the stage, and have the rest of the school snigger at you, as well as the manditory dinner time detention, and sometimes after school.
And so, with the speed only a Hobbit with the threat of detention during *dinner* break could, they ran like the wind to the main hall.
Luckily, Sauron the headmaster was late, and they just made it in time. So did Frodo, much to his own disappointment.
Frodo always loved to arrive late for assembly, and to flick Sauron off before taking a seat in the back. Of course, this *always* seriously pissed the headmaster off, but it was fun to see the fire in his eyes.
When Sauron finally did arrive, he scanned the pupils assembled quickly, looking for the human and the Elf who were *never* on time.
With an esasperated sigh, he gave up, and asked, "Where, pray tell, are Legolas and Aragorn?"
A few shrugs and "I dunno's" from the crowd were all he got, and all he ever got. So, he turned to his assistant Saruman, and said "Phone their flat, tell them that if they dont get their asses' in school in the next half hour, I'm expelling them."
It was an empty threat - he used it very, very often, but no-one in the history of Middle Earth Community School were kicked out. Some of them had gone missing... sure, but none had been actually kicked out.
And so, Saruman went off to his office, and picked up the phone to dial the number Legolas and Aragorn had provided when they moved out of their care homes when they turned 16.
------
In Legolas and Aragorn's flat, the ringing served as a wake up call for the human and the Elf, who were extremely hung over, and had camped out in the bathroom for the night.
Legolas heard the phone first; one of the problems with his Elven hearing, was that when hung over, it tripled, and thus a mouse scampering across the carpet in the 3rd flat above him could be heard loud and clear. And, as with hangovers, loud noises = bad.
On the first tone of the phone, the blonde Elf heaved up in the toliet, which he had been sleeping over due to the activities of the night before.
Of course, the sound of Legolas throwing up, woke Aragorn, who had crashed out in the bath tub. Aragorn groaned loudly as he moved.
"Oooohhh, my back" he moaned. Sleeping in the bathtub had evidently been crossed off the list of places where Aragorn would sleep.
"Please..." Legolas whimpered, "no loud noises, or sudden movements... or bright lights..."
Aragorn sniggered slightly, as he lifted himself out of the tub. "You okay?" he asked his Elven friend as he placed a hand on Legolas's back, and rubbed it gently.
Legolas turned to face him, "What you do think?" Legolas lifted himself slowly, "Argh, now I remember why Elves dont drink..."
Aragorn sniggered some more. And then he remembered the phone.
"Shit, phone!" he legged it out the bathroom, and scrambled around the livingroom to find the phone. It was still ringing luckily; Saruman had found that it sometimes took up to and including 50 rings for the inhabitants of the flat to answer.
"What?" Aragorn asked quickly, as he picked up the phone.
"Hello Aragorn, this is Saruman, calling on behalf of Sauron the headmaster. Are you aware of the time?" Saruman's voice asked with a snide tone.
"Uhh... time I were in school?" Aragorn ventured.
"Damn right it is, and Legolas too - Sauron says that if you two dont get your backsides here fast, you're out of this school."
"Okily," Aragorn said, putting on his sugar sweet voice, "I'll be right there, you see, unfortunately, my alarm clock was broken last night - one of the neighbours was over and accidently stood on it..."
"I dont want your lame excuses, Aragorn, I want you in school NOW!" Saruman shouted.
Aragorn quickly pulled the reciever from his ear to make sure he didnt go deaf. "Righty-ho, on my way!" Aragorn quickly slammed down the phone and went back into the bathroom.
"Well, that was the lovely Headmasters assistant Saruman on the phone, I think he wants us in school... now?" Aragorn said, as he pulled Legolas through and into the livingroom.
They quickly got dressed, in their version of the school uniform, which involved alot more black than was compulsary, and a few more chains and make-up too. Legolas quickly made time to change his lip and tongue piercings, so he had a spider through his tongue, and a ring through his lip, and then they were off. They didnt bother with bags, nor pens or pencils.
They took their time as they walked, commenting on various things, such as trees, and houses, and walls, and interesting patterns chewing gum had made on the pavement.
They finally reached the school at about 9:30am - which all things considered, was quite early for them. Unfortunately, it wasnt early enough for Sauron, who was rather annoyed at the two rebellious students.
And so, he called on them using the intercom as soon as he saw them enter the building.
"Would Legolas Greenleaf and Aragorn Elessar report to the Headmasters room at once!"
Legolas and Aragorn looked at eachother, and did what they usually did in these circumstances. Went to class.
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TBC... if you want me to! Review, and tell me what you think - is it worth carrying on?
Some extra notes:
Frodo's morning habits are exactly like mine were when I was in school...
Legolas's appearance is based on mine, though I dont have my lip pierced anymore *sulks* damn father threatened to kick me out if I didnt take it out... pah, shoulda kept it...
Aragorn Elessar... I used Elessar as his surname, because, quite frankly, I dont think Aragorn had a *real* surname... if he does, pleeeaassseee let me know.