Embarrassing Hobbits

"Pippin," the elf lord said finally. Glorfindel, Elladan and Elrohir sat up straighter and smirked. "Truth or dare?"

"Dare," the hobbit said at once. Elrond rubbed his hands gleefully. Merry looked a little worried.

"I dare you to go to the laundry room," he told the young hobbit. "Find two items of female clothing, put them on and run around this room in them three times."

"Can I change to dare?" Pippin asked, his face already beginning to turn red. The elves and Aragorn shook their heads.

"Do the dare!" they chanted. "Do the dare!"

"Go on, Pippin," Merry whispered. "Just get it over with. I promise that I won't laugh at you."

"Well, you had better not," Pippin muttered. "Or I'll never forgive you." He got up and ran out of the room, reappearing a few minutes later wearing a long, jewelled robe that obviously belonged to a woman.

"Where's the second article of clothing, Pip?" Frodo called out. "Show us!"

Pippin scowled and lifted the enormous robe to reveal that he was wearing female underwear. As he began to run around, everyone in the room roared with laughter, Merry included.

"That was utterly brilliant," Elrond said as Pippin took off the clothes and sat down. "It made me feel so much better."

"You said that you wouldn't laugh," Pippin whispered to Merry. "But I'm going to get you back. Merry," he said louder so that everyone could hear. "Truth or dare."

"Truth," Merry said at once. "I'm not doing something like you did just then. No way."

"Well then," the young hobbit gave an evil grin. "My question is who in this room have you been physically attracted to at any point in our travels."

"You can't make me answer that!" Merry sounded horrified. "Pippin…"

"You have to answer the question," Pippin said smugly. "It's the rules."

"I'm going to kill you tomorrow," Merry muttered as he glanced around the room. "Let me see, Aragorn, Legolas, Frodo…"

"You aren't having Mr. Frodo," Sam grabbed Frodo's hand. "He's mine."

"Go on," Pippin encouraged. "You know that isn't all."

"Boromir, although he isn't in this room," Merry went on. "Elrond and…" he lowered his voice and mumbled something.

"Louder!" Elrond called, determined to humiliate the hobbits as much as possible. "So we can hear you."

"Gandalf." Merry said a little louder and hung his head as the colour rose to his cheeks. Gandalf was still stoned so he did not react, whereas half of the room looked horrified and the other half were laughing.

"I like this game," Elladan whispered to his brother. "I really, really like this game."

"It's certainly good for embarrassing hobbits," Gimli agreed. "And other people you don't like."

"Aragorn," Merry said quickly, anxious to draw the attention away from himself. "Truth or dare?"

"Dare!" the man said confidently, taking yet another drink. "Let's see what you can come up with that could faze a king!"

"You should not have said that," Arwen whispered to her husband. "You really should not have said that."

"I dare you," Merry paused for a moment and then his eyes lit up as he was suddenly struck with an idea. "I dare you to shave your whole head."

A moment of silence followed as the whole room looked at Aragorn. Much to their surprise, the man threw back his head and laughed.

"It appears that you were right, darling," he said to Arwen. "Of all the things…well then, someone get me a razor."

In front of them, with a little help from Frodo, Aragorn shaved his entire head, sending lock after lock of his hair falling to the floor. Some of them were a little surprised, particularly Arwen and Elrond, but they were too drunk to care.

"Bet he's going to regret that tomorrow," Elladan whispered to his brother. "Tell you what, when he passes out tonight, shall we shave off his eyebrows too?"

"That would be amusing," Legolas said, overhearing the conversation. "Although what will the people of Gondor think when they see their king with no hair and no eyebrows?"

"That he has some disease that causes hair loss," Glorfindel suggested. "Or that he ahs lost his mind. One of the two."

Aragorn had just completed his dare, and had sat back in the circle with a completely bald head, when the door opened and a familiar figure marched in.

"That's nice," he was muttering under his breath. "Throw a party but don't think to invite me."

There was another long moment of silence while everyone stared at the new guest in amazement. Frodo spoke first.

"Hello Boromir," he greeted. "We're having a party."

A/N: A big thank you to everyone who has reviewed so far. We are so glad that people like this. We have a couple more chapters planned, but we need a few suggestions for truths or dares, namely for: Legolas, Elladan, Elrohir, Frodo, Arwen, Glorfindel and Boromir, although suggestions for any characters are welcome. Thinking of them is the hardest part of writing this, so if you can give us a hand then we'll be able to get the next chapter up soon.