A/N: Here's le fifth chapter. I like to call it- the explanation chapter.
Dumbledore explains what happened to the hobbits, and they get to go- wait,
I don't want to ruin it for you, so read and enjoy! Oh yeah, does anybody
think I own anything?
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Thank you. ON WITH THE STORY!!! High ho Silver, away! Erm- nevermind.
Chapter 5
As the man named Dumbledore and the four hobbits continued to walk along, into view came a magnificent castle, with glittering lights here and there coming from windows, and huge front doors soon stood in front of them as Dumbledore pushed them open. The hobbits warily stepped inside, and gasped at what they saw.
A huge hall extended in front of their very feet, the floor covered in tiles that gleamed from some torchlight in the hall. Up ahead was a huge flight of marble stairs, with corridors leading off both ends at its head. When the hobbits turned to look at their side, four enormous hourglasses, two on either side of the door, stood with different colored sand in each.
As they stood gaping at the hourglasses, they didn't notice Dumbledore walking up ahead of them towards the marble stairs. Frodo turned his head to see Dumbledore continuing to walk without them, nudged the others, and they quickly followed his trail.
After they had climbed that first set of stairs came even more, and Pippin looked dismayed at having to climb several stairways in order to get to their destination, in which neither of them still knew.
After what seemed to be the umpteenth flight of steps, they walked along a corridor and came to stop in front of a stone gargoyle. The hobbits looked at one another quizzically.
"Fizzing Whizbee," said Dumbledore calmly. Frodo arched his eyebrows at him. Who or what was a Fizzing Whizbee? But then the stone gargoyle leaped aside, causing the hobbits to jump in surprise, and a slowly rotating set of spiral stairs sprawled upwards.
"Not another flight of stairs!" Pippin moaned. But Dumbledore had lightly stepped on the moving stairway, and Frodo and the others followed suit.
Soon they came upon a highly polished oak door, with a brass knocker in the shape of a griffin, and they walked up to it as Dumbledore pushed on the handle and opened the door. They all filed in and took a look around at this strange new place.
There were odd silver instruments standing on tables that were whirring and emitting puffs of smoke. Many portraits of sleeping people covered the walls, and a desk stood in front of them with a high-backed chair. Behind the desk was a magnificent bird the size of a swan with red- and-gold plumage, its head under its wing, but as soon as the door closed behind the hobbits, the bird lifted its head and stared at the hobbits with beady black eyes. Dumbledore sat at the desk.
"So, you are wondering how you got here, yes?" he asked them politely. They nodded.
"Well, let me begin. I was pacing my office, as you are now standing in, and as I passed by my window, a very strange sight met my eyes. An oval- like shape of some peculiar substance had appeared at the edge of the Forbidden Forest, that is the name of that forest in case you were wondering, and as I stared at it, a small figure of a person shot out of it and landed on the grass. Shortly afterwards, three more people came and landed beside the first. So, naturally, I came to inspect what was going on and I found you four." He stopped speaking and smiled at them.
"Now, upon knowing you are hobbits, then my guess as to what that oval-shaped substance was was correct. You see, twice every 100 years, a portal appears in the space time continuum. In other words, a sort of gateway forms in the present time of the earth to some other time unknown. It just so happens that the other gateway had formed in your time, in which I make my guess is sometime around the third age of Middle Earth? After all, you are hobbits." They nodded again.
"Well then, not to worry. Like I said before, the portal comes twice every 100 years, so I could summon another one to take you back to your own time, seeing as how there is no other portal before this one in this century. Until then, however, I'm afraid you have to stay here in our time."
"But what about Strider? And the Fellowship? And what about the Ring?" The other three hobbits looked at Sam with a look of horror and anger on their faces. "Oops."
Dumbledore merely chuckled. "Do not worry! I already know of your quest. As for the other members of your Fellowship, they will remain in the same time until you come back to Middle Earth, so it will be like no time passed at all."
Frodo was about to demand how this man knew about the Fellowship, when a voice from above said,
"What's all this then, Dumbledore? Guests at this time of night?"
A/N: Ok, if you thought any of the other chapters were long, THIS one takes the cake! And to think that I was thinking of adding more! But no, you will have to wait until the next chapter, my dear readers! Also, there won't really be any of Aragorn and co., except for mentioning, because of the portal thing. Anywho, if you will please be so kind as to Review my story, I will thank you, on a count of I would like some comments or criticism on my writing, so please Review!
*Crickets chirp*
Thank you. ON WITH THE STORY!!! High ho Silver, away! Erm- nevermind.
Chapter 5
As the man named Dumbledore and the four hobbits continued to walk along, into view came a magnificent castle, with glittering lights here and there coming from windows, and huge front doors soon stood in front of them as Dumbledore pushed them open. The hobbits warily stepped inside, and gasped at what they saw.
A huge hall extended in front of their very feet, the floor covered in tiles that gleamed from some torchlight in the hall. Up ahead was a huge flight of marble stairs, with corridors leading off both ends at its head. When the hobbits turned to look at their side, four enormous hourglasses, two on either side of the door, stood with different colored sand in each.
As they stood gaping at the hourglasses, they didn't notice Dumbledore walking up ahead of them towards the marble stairs. Frodo turned his head to see Dumbledore continuing to walk without them, nudged the others, and they quickly followed his trail.
After they had climbed that first set of stairs came even more, and Pippin looked dismayed at having to climb several stairways in order to get to their destination, in which neither of them still knew.
After what seemed to be the umpteenth flight of steps, they walked along a corridor and came to stop in front of a stone gargoyle. The hobbits looked at one another quizzically.
"Fizzing Whizbee," said Dumbledore calmly. Frodo arched his eyebrows at him. Who or what was a Fizzing Whizbee? But then the stone gargoyle leaped aside, causing the hobbits to jump in surprise, and a slowly rotating set of spiral stairs sprawled upwards.
"Not another flight of stairs!" Pippin moaned. But Dumbledore had lightly stepped on the moving stairway, and Frodo and the others followed suit.
Soon they came upon a highly polished oak door, with a brass knocker in the shape of a griffin, and they walked up to it as Dumbledore pushed on the handle and opened the door. They all filed in and took a look around at this strange new place.
There were odd silver instruments standing on tables that were whirring and emitting puffs of smoke. Many portraits of sleeping people covered the walls, and a desk stood in front of them with a high-backed chair. Behind the desk was a magnificent bird the size of a swan with red- and-gold plumage, its head under its wing, but as soon as the door closed behind the hobbits, the bird lifted its head and stared at the hobbits with beady black eyes. Dumbledore sat at the desk.
"So, you are wondering how you got here, yes?" he asked them politely. They nodded.
"Well, let me begin. I was pacing my office, as you are now standing in, and as I passed by my window, a very strange sight met my eyes. An oval- like shape of some peculiar substance had appeared at the edge of the Forbidden Forest, that is the name of that forest in case you were wondering, and as I stared at it, a small figure of a person shot out of it and landed on the grass. Shortly afterwards, three more people came and landed beside the first. So, naturally, I came to inspect what was going on and I found you four." He stopped speaking and smiled at them.
"Now, upon knowing you are hobbits, then my guess as to what that oval-shaped substance was was correct. You see, twice every 100 years, a portal appears in the space time continuum. In other words, a sort of gateway forms in the present time of the earth to some other time unknown. It just so happens that the other gateway had formed in your time, in which I make my guess is sometime around the third age of Middle Earth? After all, you are hobbits." They nodded again.
"Well then, not to worry. Like I said before, the portal comes twice every 100 years, so I could summon another one to take you back to your own time, seeing as how there is no other portal before this one in this century. Until then, however, I'm afraid you have to stay here in our time."
"But what about Strider? And the Fellowship? And what about the Ring?" The other three hobbits looked at Sam with a look of horror and anger on their faces. "Oops."
Dumbledore merely chuckled. "Do not worry! I already know of your quest. As for the other members of your Fellowship, they will remain in the same time until you come back to Middle Earth, so it will be like no time passed at all."
Frodo was about to demand how this man knew about the Fellowship, when a voice from above said,
"What's all this then, Dumbledore? Guests at this time of night?"
A/N: Ok, if you thought any of the other chapters were long, THIS one takes the cake! And to think that I was thinking of adding more! But no, you will have to wait until the next chapter, my dear readers! Also, there won't really be any of Aragorn and co., except for mentioning, because of the portal thing. Anywho, if you will please be so kind as to Review my story, I will thank you, on a count of I would like some comments or criticism on my writing, so please Review!