Title: Scrabble
Author (including email): Kitty-Rose (blood_and_rubies@yahoo.co.uk)
Rating: G
Summary: Gollum cheats at scrabble
Disclaimer: None of these characters are mine. I did not invent Scrabble.
Authors Note (if needed/desired): Thanks to Jo for beta reading. This story comes from a plot bunny submitted to www.libraryofmoria.com by Ringwraith 9.
Gollum had always liked scrabble, he'd just never been any good at it. It wasn't his fault, he would reason, it's just that he never got any practice because nobody ever wanted to play it with him. There'd been this one time when he'd almost got the chance, but the stupid hobbit was obsessed with riddles, it turned out, and that'd been the game they'd stayed up half the night playing. One day he'd get that Baggins, and force him to play the game of Scrabble he'd promised.
And when those poncy elves that insisted upon keeping him prisoner offered to play scrabble with him, Gollum had got over-excited. It had been such a long time since he'd been able to gaze lovingly at the colourful board and feel the wooden squares clenched tightly in his fist. And when it seemed as though the elf was winning, Gollum felt a long forgotten wave of panic rise within him. The kind of panic you only get when you have four 'S's, a Z, a X and a W in front of you and someone else looking smug from other side of the board.
So, Gollum had cheated. He hadn't known what else to do, and the humiliation of losing his first scrabble game in a hundred years would be too much to bear. Casting a careful eye over the rest of the board, he had put out his letters.
The smug looking elf before him had put down "SLASH" several turns previously. Gollum had looked hard at the words, and the more he thought about it, the more he thought he should make the new word.
"SLASH" became "SSSSLASH", and Gollum grinned triumphantly. "Elf's turn now, precious."
The elf frowned, and turned to whisper to one of his fellow soldiers, who in turn frowned and peered at the board. Then he went off and found a friend, who also seemed very confused by the new word. Eventually one of them went off and brought a dictionary, and they crowded round it as the first elf turned the pages.
Gollum decided that right now might be the time to leave. He stood up and very quickly and quietly crept away, while the elves were engrossed in their dictionary.
Author (including email): Kitty-Rose (blood_and_rubies@yahoo.co.uk)
Rating: G
Summary: Gollum cheats at scrabble
Disclaimer: None of these characters are mine. I did not invent Scrabble.
Authors Note (if needed/desired): Thanks to Jo for beta reading. This story comes from a plot bunny submitted to www.libraryofmoria.com by Ringwraith 9.
Gollum had always liked scrabble, he'd just never been any good at it. It wasn't his fault, he would reason, it's just that he never got any practice because nobody ever wanted to play it with him. There'd been this one time when he'd almost got the chance, but the stupid hobbit was obsessed with riddles, it turned out, and that'd been the game they'd stayed up half the night playing. One day he'd get that Baggins, and force him to play the game of Scrabble he'd promised.
And when those poncy elves that insisted upon keeping him prisoner offered to play scrabble with him, Gollum had got over-excited. It had been such a long time since he'd been able to gaze lovingly at the colourful board and feel the wooden squares clenched tightly in his fist. And when it seemed as though the elf was winning, Gollum felt a long forgotten wave of panic rise within him. The kind of panic you only get when you have four 'S's, a Z, a X and a W in front of you and someone else looking smug from other side of the board.
So, Gollum had cheated. He hadn't known what else to do, and the humiliation of losing his first scrabble game in a hundred years would be too much to bear. Casting a careful eye over the rest of the board, he had put out his letters.
The smug looking elf before him had put down "SLASH" several turns previously. Gollum had looked hard at the words, and the more he thought about it, the more he thought he should make the new word.
"SLASH" became "SSSSLASH", and Gollum grinned triumphantly. "Elf's turn now, precious."
The elf frowned, and turned to whisper to one of his fellow soldiers, who in turn frowned and peered at the board. Then he went off and found a friend, who also seemed very confused by the new word. Eventually one of them went off and brought a dictionary, and they crowded round it as the first elf turned the pages.
Gollum decided that right now might be the time to leave. He stood up and very quickly and quietly crept away, while the elves were engrossed in their dictionary.