~*ON SHORE*~
Meanwhile, Legolas and Mariam have found Pippin and Merry.
"Hi Orli!" says Pippin. "How come you're here?"
"And who's she?" asks Merry.
"I've come to find you two!" says Legolas. "And this is Mariam. You know her, remember?"
"Oh yeah," says Pippin, eyeing Mariam. "So, what are we going to do now?"
Legolas rolls his eyes. "We're going back to everyone else."
"But we haven't found Boromir yet!" says Merry, disappointedly.
"Yeah," agrees Pippin. "We wanna find Seany!"
Legolas, Merry and Mariam all look at him. Pippin looks sheepish. "I was talking to Maxy earlier today," he explains.
"Right," says Legolas. "Now, we must go back!"
But suddenly there's a loud noise, a horn.
Mariam gasps. "It's an orc's horn!"
"Ahhhh!" Legolas screams, and shows his true colours at last by running away and abandoning them all.
"Hey!" Merry shouts. "Come back!" He turns to Mariam and Pippin. "All this time he's been pretending to be some heroic... hero, and now he's just run out on us!"
"No time for that!" says Mariam. "We've gotta run from the orcs!"
They all try to run away, but because they're so short, the orcs catch them.
"Ahhh!" Mariam screams as an orc grabs her and puts her over his shoulder.
"Ahhh!" scream Pippin and Merry as the same happens to them.
The orcs all run away with the three of them as prisoners.
Meanwhile, Helen T is still searching for Eloijah. She walks up a very leafy hill, and over a felled tree. Then she sees a small figure sitting on a rock.
She walks up to the figure. It's Eloijah!
"Hi Eloijah!" she says.
"Hi," Eloijah replies, gloomily. He's fingering the ring in his hand.
"What's the matter?" Helen T asks.
"Nothing," Eloijah says. "It's just... sometimes I wish that things... that some things had never happened."
"What? Like the ring?" she asks.
Eloijah looks at her. "Yeah," he says slowly, and a smile begins to creep back (he looks so cute when he smiles!). "Hey, listen. I was thinking. I'm going to Mordor alone, to destroy the ring."
Helen T gasps.
"And," he continues. "I was wondering... Do you wanna come with me?"
"Hell yes!" Helen T says, without thinking. "But what about everyone else?"
"What about them?" Eloijah grins. "I'm pretty sure they're old enough to look after themselves."
Helen T laughs. "Not if you're Patty Foy," she says.
He laughs as well. "Maxy will look after her," he says. "Come on, let's go."
Meanwhile, Aragorn and Gimli are fighting the orcs. Aragorn is about to stab on of them through the head when he realises that it's not an orc as he had assumed; it's Boromir!
"What are you doing here?" Aragorn says.
"Well, the book says that I get shot by an orc, so I came back to die basically," says Boromir, grinning.
"Right..." says Aragorn slowly.
Gimli comes running and puffing up to them. "This forest is too dense!" he says. "What's the name of it?"
"Erm," says Boromir. "I think it's the Elijah Wood."
"Whatever it's called, the trees are too many- I can't see any more orcs!"
Aragorn squints. "I can. They're over there. Let's get them!" They all charge up to the orcs and heroically start stabbing them, and taking all their brains out.
"Where are the others?" Gimli asks. "Patty and Maxy and Annalise and Helen M and Juliet and Maria and Melissa and Clare and Ceara and all of them?!"
"Er," says Aragorn, slashing an orc's head off. "I dunno. Maybe they did a runner."
"Yes," says Boromir quietly, punching the air.
"Hang on," says Gimli. "They're over there. I can see Clare's blonde hair!"
He runs over to the shore and is about to say, "Hi Clare!" when he realises. It's not Clare! It's Galadriel!
"Ahhh!" says Gimli, screaming.
"I'm gonna KILL YOU!" says Galadriel, running after him.
Aragorn and Boromir run up to Gimli.
"What's the matter?" Aragorn asks him.
"It's Galadriel!" he whimpers. "She's trying to kill me!"
"Not if we kill her first!" says Boromir, and with that, he and Aragorn run up to her, grab her and throw her into the river.
Boromir dusts off his hands. "Happy?"
Gimli grins.
Meanwhile, Ceara, Annalise, Sam, Helen M, Melissa, Juliet, Maria, Patty, Maxy, Clare and Arwen are all sitting down, reading (apart from Patty, who's listening to Coldplay on her Walkman.) Maxy keeps gasping and saying, "Oh my Eru!"
"Oh shut up," says Annalise the eighteenth time this happens. "It's not like you haven't read all of it before."
Maxy sticks her nose in the air and says, "Shakespeare was a great writer. He can sustain a plot as well as I can!"
Annalise rolls her eyes. "Whatever."
Suddenly Helen M throws down her book and says, "This sucks! It's so boring! Where's Mariam?"
"She's gone to look for Pippin and Merry."
"And where's Mr Frodo?" Sam asks.
"Helen T's gone to look for him," says Juliet. "But she's been gone for ages!"
"I'm going to go and look for them!" says Sam, and he runs off. Since everyone is too tired to even move, nobody bothers to follow him.
After about five minutes more, Helen M cracks again and says, "This is so boring! Let's play a game or something!"
"Like what?"
"Let's play... TIG!" she says. (You need to read the interview with Billy Boyd on the Newsround website to get this).
"What's that?" says Arwen.
"Oh, it's an old British game," says Helen M, smiling. "Double-tig is tag."
They begin playing tig, and then Arwen double-tags Melissa.
"You can't double-tag a tig. You have to tig tig a double-tag!" says Helen M
"What?" says Arwen, confused. "I don't geddit!"
"I don't think any of us do," says Ceara, sighing.
Helen M sighs, frustrated. "Look," she says. "It's a game that Pippin taught me, tig."
"But nobody understands it!" says Patty.
"Fine," she says, sitting down. "Let's read again."
"No!" says Maria. "That's so boring! Let's play... Catch the Orc!"
"How about Catch and Kill the Orc?" suggests Juliet.
"Yeah!" says Clare, so they all get up and get their swords out.
"I never knew you had a sword," says Maxy to Patty.
"I never knew YOU had a sword!" says Patty.
"Let's go!" says Annalise. They all run off and try to kill the orcs, but Helen M, Ceara and Annalise get captured by orcs.
"Argh!!" they all scream, as they get carried off.
Patty and Maxy run for a long way, until they meet Aragorn.
"Patty! Maxy!" he says. "Er... you may not want to go over there."
"Why?" they ask. Patty shoves Aragorn out of the way and runs over.
"Oh my Eru!" she screams. "It's Seany!! AND HE'S DEAD!"
"WHAT??!!" Maxy screams. "Ahhh!" They both run over to Boromir, who's lying dead on the floor. They start crying, and when Aragorn puts him in a boat and shoves him off the waterfall, Patty threatens to jump after him.
"Don't do it, Patty!" Maxy shouts. "Let's go home! I won't be able to stand it if Seany's not here!"
"OK," Patty sobs. "Where's Legolas? We need a helicopter!"
"Legolas is gone to find Merry and Pippin," says Aragorn.
"Fine," Patty sniffs. "We're going to walk home then!"
Aragorn stifles a laugh. "Er, good luck!" he says, trying not to laugh.
They both walk off.
Meanwhile, Helen T and Eloijah are preparing a boat to go to Mordor.
"How far is Mordor?" Helen T asks.
Eloijah shrugs "Dunno," he says. "But it says here in the book that we meet Gollum and he tells us the way."
"Oh right," says Helen T. They push the boat out and are nearly in the middle of the river when they hear a voice
"MR FRODO!" It's Sam!
"Go back, Sam!" Eloijah yells. "I'm going to Mordor alone! With Helen T!"
"Of course you are!" Sam shouts back. "And I'm coming with you!" He walks out into the river, thinking he's Jesus and he can walk on water, but, of course, he sinks.
"SAM!" Eloijah shouts. "You can't swim!" He puts his hand into the water and pulls Sam out, and Sam gets into the boat.
Meanwhile, Aragorn and Gimli are still fighting the orcs. Juliet, Maria, Arwen and Melissa have all got lost in the Elijah Wood. Arwen is annoying Melissa by talking about Legolas 24/7.
Finally Melissa shouts, "SHUT UP!!" and Arwen goes off in a sulk.
"Well done," says Juliet. "We've probably lost her now."
Meanwhile, Patty and Maxy are still walking and Aragorn and Gimli are still fighting orcs.
Eloijah, Helen T and Sam have arrived near Mordor.
"Well, that's Mordor," says Eloijah. "I hope the others find a safer path than ours. I don't suppose we'll ever see them again."
"We may, Mr Frodo," says Sam. "We may."
Eloijah smiles. "Sam. I'm glad you're with me."
"Me too, Dale!" says Sam in a Dale Winton voice.
Helen T and Eloijah look at him. "WHAT?!" they say, together.
"Er... Nothing."
And they set off for Mordor.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Meanwhile, Legolas and Mariam have found Pippin and Merry.
"Hi Orli!" says Pippin. "How come you're here?"
"And who's she?" asks Merry.
"I've come to find you two!" says Legolas. "And this is Mariam. You know her, remember?"
"Oh yeah," says Pippin, eyeing Mariam. "So, what are we going to do now?"
Legolas rolls his eyes. "We're going back to everyone else."
"But we haven't found Boromir yet!" says Merry, disappointedly.
"Yeah," agrees Pippin. "We wanna find Seany!"
Legolas, Merry and Mariam all look at him. Pippin looks sheepish. "I was talking to Maxy earlier today," he explains.
"Right," says Legolas. "Now, we must go back!"
But suddenly there's a loud noise, a horn.
Mariam gasps. "It's an orc's horn!"
"Ahhhh!" Legolas screams, and shows his true colours at last by running away and abandoning them all.
"Hey!" Merry shouts. "Come back!" He turns to Mariam and Pippin. "All this time he's been pretending to be some heroic... hero, and now he's just run out on us!"
"No time for that!" says Mariam. "We've gotta run from the orcs!"
They all try to run away, but because they're so short, the orcs catch them.
"Ahhh!" Mariam screams as an orc grabs her and puts her over his shoulder.
"Ahhh!" scream Pippin and Merry as the same happens to them.
The orcs all run away with the three of them as prisoners.
Meanwhile, Helen T is still searching for Eloijah. She walks up a very leafy hill, and over a felled tree. Then she sees a small figure sitting on a rock.
She walks up to the figure. It's Eloijah!
"Hi Eloijah!" she says.
"Hi," Eloijah replies, gloomily. He's fingering the ring in his hand.
"What's the matter?" Helen T asks.
"Nothing," Eloijah says. "It's just... sometimes I wish that things... that some things had never happened."
"What? Like the ring?" she asks.
Eloijah looks at her. "Yeah," he says slowly, and a smile begins to creep back (he looks so cute when he smiles!). "Hey, listen. I was thinking. I'm going to Mordor alone, to destroy the ring."
Helen T gasps.
"And," he continues. "I was wondering... Do you wanna come with me?"
"Hell yes!" Helen T says, without thinking. "But what about everyone else?"
"What about them?" Eloijah grins. "I'm pretty sure they're old enough to look after themselves."
Helen T laughs. "Not if you're Patty Foy," she says.
He laughs as well. "Maxy will look after her," he says. "Come on, let's go."
Meanwhile, Aragorn and Gimli are fighting the orcs. Aragorn is about to stab on of them through the head when he realises that it's not an orc as he had assumed; it's Boromir!
"What are you doing here?" Aragorn says.
"Well, the book says that I get shot by an orc, so I came back to die basically," says Boromir, grinning.
"Right..." says Aragorn slowly.
Gimli comes running and puffing up to them. "This forest is too dense!" he says. "What's the name of it?"
"Erm," says Boromir. "I think it's the Elijah Wood."
"Whatever it's called, the trees are too many- I can't see any more orcs!"
Aragorn squints. "I can. They're over there. Let's get them!" They all charge up to the orcs and heroically start stabbing them, and taking all their brains out.
"Where are the others?" Gimli asks. "Patty and Maxy and Annalise and Helen M and Juliet and Maria and Melissa and Clare and Ceara and all of them?!"
"Er," says Aragorn, slashing an orc's head off. "I dunno. Maybe they did a runner."
"Yes," says Boromir quietly, punching the air.
"Hang on," says Gimli. "They're over there. I can see Clare's blonde hair!"
He runs over to the shore and is about to say, "Hi Clare!" when he realises. It's not Clare! It's Galadriel!
"Ahhh!" says Gimli, screaming.
"I'm gonna KILL YOU!" says Galadriel, running after him.
Aragorn and Boromir run up to Gimli.
"What's the matter?" Aragorn asks him.
"It's Galadriel!" he whimpers. "She's trying to kill me!"
"Not if we kill her first!" says Boromir, and with that, he and Aragorn run up to her, grab her and throw her into the river.
Boromir dusts off his hands. "Happy?"
Gimli grins.
Meanwhile, Ceara, Annalise, Sam, Helen M, Melissa, Juliet, Maria, Patty, Maxy, Clare and Arwen are all sitting down, reading (apart from Patty, who's listening to Coldplay on her Walkman.) Maxy keeps gasping and saying, "Oh my Eru!"
"Oh shut up," says Annalise the eighteenth time this happens. "It's not like you haven't read all of it before."
Maxy sticks her nose in the air and says, "Shakespeare was a great writer. He can sustain a plot as well as I can!"
Annalise rolls her eyes. "Whatever."
Suddenly Helen M throws down her book and says, "This sucks! It's so boring! Where's Mariam?"
"She's gone to look for Pippin and Merry."
"And where's Mr Frodo?" Sam asks.
"Helen T's gone to look for him," says Juliet. "But she's been gone for ages!"
"I'm going to go and look for them!" says Sam, and he runs off. Since everyone is too tired to even move, nobody bothers to follow him.
After about five minutes more, Helen M cracks again and says, "This is so boring! Let's play a game or something!"
"Like what?"
"Let's play... TIG!" she says. (You need to read the interview with Billy Boyd on the Newsround website to get this).
"What's that?" says Arwen.
"Oh, it's an old British game," says Helen M, smiling. "Double-tig is tag."
They begin playing tig, and then Arwen double-tags Melissa.
"You can't double-tag a tig. You have to tig tig a double-tag!" says Helen M
"What?" says Arwen, confused. "I don't geddit!"
"I don't think any of us do," says Ceara, sighing.
Helen M sighs, frustrated. "Look," she says. "It's a game that Pippin taught me, tig."
"But nobody understands it!" says Patty.
"Fine," she says, sitting down. "Let's read again."
"No!" says Maria. "That's so boring! Let's play... Catch the Orc!"
"How about Catch and Kill the Orc?" suggests Juliet.
"Yeah!" says Clare, so they all get up and get their swords out.
"I never knew you had a sword," says Maxy to Patty.
"I never knew YOU had a sword!" says Patty.
"Let's go!" says Annalise. They all run off and try to kill the orcs, but Helen M, Ceara and Annalise get captured by orcs.
"Argh!!" they all scream, as they get carried off.
Patty and Maxy run for a long way, until they meet Aragorn.
"Patty! Maxy!" he says. "Er... you may not want to go over there."
"Why?" they ask. Patty shoves Aragorn out of the way and runs over.
"Oh my Eru!" she screams. "It's Seany!! AND HE'S DEAD!"
"WHAT??!!" Maxy screams. "Ahhh!" They both run over to Boromir, who's lying dead on the floor. They start crying, and when Aragorn puts him in a boat and shoves him off the waterfall, Patty threatens to jump after him.
"Don't do it, Patty!" Maxy shouts. "Let's go home! I won't be able to stand it if Seany's not here!"
"OK," Patty sobs. "Where's Legolas? We need a helicopter!"
"Legolas is gone to find Merry and Pippin," says Aragorn.
"Fine," Patty sniffs. "We're going to walk home then!"
Aragorn stifles a laugh. "Er, good luck!" he says, trying not to laugh.
They both walk off.
Meanwhile, Helen T and Eloijah are preparing a boat to go to Mordor.
"How far is Mordor?" Helen T asks.
Eloijah shrugs "Dunno," he says. "But it says here in the book that we meet Gollum and he tells us the way."
"Oh right," says Helen T. They push the boat out and are nearly in the middle of the river when they hear a voice
"MR FRODO!" It's Sam!
"Go back, Sam!" Eloijah yells. "I'm going to Mordor alone! With Helen T!"
"Of course you are!" Sam shouts back. "And I'm coming with you!" He walks out into the river, thinking he's Jesus and he can walk on water, but, of course, he sinks.
"SAM!" Eloijah shouts. "You can't swim!" He puts his hand into the water and pulls Sam out, and Sam gets into the boat.
Meanwhile, Aragorn and Gimli are still fighting the orcs. Juliet, Maria, Arwen and Melissa have all got lost in the Elijah Wood. Arwen is annoying Melissa by talking about Legolas 24/7.
Finally Melissa shouts, "SHUT UP!!" and Arwen goes off in a sulk.
"Well done," says Juliet. "We've probably lost her now."
Meanwhile, Patty and Maxy are still walking and Aragorn and Gimli are still fighting orcs.
Eloijah, Helen T and Sam have arrived near Mordor.
"Well, that's Mordor," says Eloijah. "I hope the others find a safer path than ours. I don't suppose we'll ever see them again."
"We may, Mr Frodo," says Sam. "We may."
Eloijah smiles. "Sam. I'm glad you're with me."
"Me too, Dale!" says Sam in a Dale Winton voice.
Helen T and Eloijah look at him. "WHAT?!" they say, together.
"Er... Nothing."
And they set off for Mordor.
TO BE CONTINUED...