The second day of the convention started out smoothly, everyone was dressed in Middle Earth fashion, naturally Joan wanted to look smashing so she decided to wear a sexy belly dancer like red dress with gold accessories. Topping her look was the weird necklace she bought the other day. "I am the ring of Fire, anyway, aren't I? I'm just being true to my character." She assured herself as she walked toward the covered pavillion just in front of the exhibit area where stuff from the movie where being displayed. "I am going to make them drool with this dress" Then she covered herself with a large red hood with white feathers.

As she entered the Pavillion, she saw that there were many who thought the same way as she did as most of the attendees were wearing very sexy outfits. Only the younger membesrs of TTF were wearing Renfest- like gowns. The guys were a mix of Knights, dwarves, Elves, and Hobbits. But she noticed one guy wearing a large golden crown upon his head. It was Nick Stewart, the richest guy at the convention she thought. All the girls were swamping him drooling at his good looks. " And no doubt at his wallet too" She walked to the opposite direction and saw Theodore with Joe in a simple elvish-like garb sipping cranberry juice. "This isn't working...Where are the hot guys?!" Then an announcer stood at the podium and announced that there will be a King and Queen of the night award, and that afterwards they were to head off to the exhibit area.

Joan definitely hated these "prom-like" event,s "Why would they need that? Ugh!" Then she scooted off. But just as she raced toward the balcony overlooking the exhibit area, she saw the old man who sold her the pendant. He was dressed in a Gandalf wardrobe. "So you are a member of TTF too, ha?" She said approaching him. "So who were you there?" The old man turned to look at her, and smiled, the hair at Joan's nape tingled. "I was Gandalf." He said. "Yeah right! Anyway, I'm Narya." She held out her hand. But he never took it. He just smiled at her and said, "I know... But you won't be very soon." Joan started. Looking at the man with her face puzzled, "What the hell do you mean by that?"

"Do you want to see Middle Earth, Narya?" He asked. Joan started feeling a bit scared. But she answered like she was compelled to. "Of course I want to see Middle Earth, that's why I came to this convention mister..."

"Maybe I will take her with me...it will do her a lot of good" the old man appeared to be talking to someone Joan can't see. Then he looked back at Joan, which made her uncomfortable. " Maybe I will..." realizing that maybe this old man was a loon, Joan felt extremely scared.

"Oh...Kay! I have to go back inside it's not really good to be wearing this out here. " Joan started walking back then she ran and made off to the powder room. She didn't see the old man laugh and disappear into thin air. __________________

Keira was walking to the pavillion, she was dressed in a black and dark blue dress, with a silver chain around her neck, the hankerchief was tucked in a hidden pocket. She had worn her hair down crimped. She walked in and saw all the other girls dressed like her, and even better, but this didn't bother her, she knew she wasn't the prettiest girl there. When she entered the pavillion, she saw an Asian girl, in a red dress, the girl looked thrilled, and scared at the same time.

She walked on some more, and saw two of the guys she had tripped and fallen into. They were wearing elvish garb, and talking amongst themselves. Keira kept walking, till she noticed Nick, the last guy she had run into, with about 15 girls swooning over him.

'Keira' someone yelled from a table Keira turned to see Kyle, dressed as a hobbit, his feet were on the table. 'Kyle, love the outfit, you even have the curly hair, and hairy feet to match' she said sitting down across from him 'Yea, this is actually my real hair, when it's been curled' Kyle laughed, 'By the way you look lovely' Keira looked at him astonished not, expecting him to say that. 'Yo, kyle' a bunch of guys yelled from the middle of the pavillion Kyle told Keira bye for now and went off to see his friends.

Off in the distance she saw a figure of a man, she walked over and saw that it was the man who sold her the hankerchief. The man was dressed as Gandalf. 'Hello' she waved trying to see if he would remember her, the man turned to her. 'Hello, hobbit*frodo21' he said looking at her Keira looked nervous that he knew what her screenname was without her even telling it too him. 'I am Gandalf' he continued. He kept asking her if she wanted to visit, and see MiddleEarth. 'Hmm, maybe she should come too' the man was talking to some one else unseen, though Keira thought he was talking to himself. Freaked out by the man's behavior, Keira ran off to find Kyle. __________________

Nick Stewart had all kinds of fun with the attention he was getting and would take for granted anyway. This sort of thing came naturally to him. After swimming through the crowd to see if he had to sign up for the award, he found the slipper salesman behind the desk and dressed up like some wizard. "Oh, it's you again! How many jobs do you have here? Anyway, do I have to sign up somewhere for this King and Queen thing? I bet I'll win. See? I'm King Aragond. I haven't seen the new movie yet, but I bet he'll look something like this!"

The salesman shook his head with all kinds of amusement and let him sign up. "You know, Aragond, I could take you to see the real Aragorn, er, Aragond. However you want to say it."

Nick took a quick around, wondering if that actor was actually here. "No, really? Cool. I didn't know he'd be here. Okay. Where is he? I could get some autographs, I guess."

The salesman finally started to look like he was losing patience. "He's not here. He's in Middle Earth. I was thinking of taking you."

Nick looked at the guy with all kinds of confusion, but turned to one of the crowd that was following him around. When he looked back up, the desk was empty. He decided that the guy went off to hand some forms in or something. He shrugged and started to lead his group to the pavilion. __________________

Theo was thrilled. Here he was, deep in a discussion about The Silmarillion with one of the major biggies of TTF. He could see Joe out of the corner of his eye shaking his head. But Ted's face was lit up with an excited light as he recalled a debate he and the man across the table had had, and he went head-to-head with his partner, fighting him with words.

Joe yawned. What was he to do? Boredom was getting the better of him . . . and he shouldn't be yawning either. Theo had said it was important to get a good night's sleep instead of having a good night out in Wellington. The guy had his idiotic moments, that was for sure! He slowly stretched his neck from side to side and finally leaned his body against a nearby table with a look of disgust at his own elvish garb. At least Theo wasn't embarrassed to wear this stuff . . . but HE was. Suddenly, a bright gleam caught his eye. Theo's ring seemed to be pulsing with a yellow light that orbed and swirled. He shook his head but the pulsing refused to leave.

"Hey Ted. . . ." he called out.

"What?" Theo asked, obviously annoyed.

"Check out your ring."

With one last pulse, the light faded. Theo saw nothing abnormal and glared at his friend. "Geez man, if you're bored go find someone to talk to!"

"I swear it was glowing a second ago! I swear it!" Ted grimaced and ignored his friend. Soon he was once again deep in a discussion of the Maiar of old.