Disclaimer: LOTR is not mine, and I am making no profit from it. No matter how much the bloody Ring wants to babble in my head.

Dear Diary,

I thought nothing could be worse than Bilbo. I mean, being stuck with someone who can hardly hear me and has none of the interesting tendencies that might allow me to escape... Being stuck here for years upon years of birthday parties and chatty relatives and - and - I hates this hobbit!

This new one, though -he's worse. He is so much worse. Frodo (Bilbo's little adopted heir) is taking me to the Elves. Oh, he thinks he's not going very far, he thinks he's going to meet up with the 'Wizard' somewhere, but I know better. I know what's going on. After I'd begun to think the Maiar wasn't ever going to catch on, too.

I tried my hardest, I delayed him with every ounce of influence I could muster, but he's gone and left the Shire anyway. I never thought i'd miss that lot of happy idiotic people, but it's better than being melted.

Melted, can you hear me you little hobbit?! Melted!! I'll be gone, and just when news had started to come of Master Sauron. Just when I could feel him looking for me, this stupid little hobbit-

No. No, that's defeatist thinking. I will get away from the Hobbits - and this Man i'm beginning to think looks disturbingly familiar - somehow. I will.