Tales Of Insanity
I own none of Tolkien's characters, I own a life-size cardboard cut-out of
one of his characters, but it's just not the same thing. And to save me
from repeating a disclaimer for every chapter this will count for all
chapters unless specified at the beginning, comprende?
(Well here it is, the long awaited sequel to Tales of Stupidity, I will most probably be putting this one out in chapters so in reviews to this story, feel free to give me any ideas for pranks, embarrassing moments or any other things that could be mentioned as I am running out of ideas. Thanks, here's the first instalment.)
The opening of this chapter is dedicated to Rachel for her idea about the four getting told off by Elrond, thanks for the suggestion I think this works well for an opening paragraph.
In Which Visitors Arrive and Legolas Almost Has a Panic Attack
"Why do I always end up having this conversation when you four get together, can anyone answer that for me" Elrond asked, anger evident on his face, though the twinkle in his eye showed that he wasn't quite as angry as his tone of voice may have implied.
"Well you see ada" Aragorn said, stalling for time as long as he could in the hope that either he, Legolas or the twins could come up with a good enough excuse. "you see it was..."
"It was the trees fault" Elrohir broke in. Elrond raised one eyebrow sceptically
"Oh I see, so know you are blaming the flora for your reckless behaviour and stupidity, please explain how that works"
"Well you see, we were minding our business in the woods, when all of a sudden we remembered that you had told us not to go in that area because there were orcs there" Elrohir was obviously speaking from the deepest realms of fantasy now but he was so caught up in his tale that he didn't realise how stupid he sounded, nor did he catch the death glares of his three companions. "Yes so we heard orcs coming and, not wanting to be caught by them we leapt into a tree. But you know what ada, I think we've got some black huorns inhabiting our woods because no sooner had the orcs got under our tree than the evil thing threw us into their midst. And of course we had to fight them because otherwise they would have killed..." Elrohir trailed off as he finally noticed the glares of his companion, and the amused look on his fathers face.
"It didn't sound that stupid in my head" he muttered defencelessly.
"Yes well Ro, we shouldn't trust your head at the best of times, let alone when you're being glared at by ada, remind me to kick you next time we're in this situation."
"Well" Elrond said cutting off the muttered conversation, which of course he heard every word of. "Firstly I would hope that there will not be a next time though I expect that's wishful thinking where you four are concerned, and secondly I gather from his story that despite what I said you did go looking for orcs, and you did climb a tree, but I would imagine that rather than the tree threw you out I would guess that you all leapt out of the tree, am I correct?"
Deciding that there was no point in lying to the elf lord, the four of them nodded dejectedly.
"Well it looks as though no harm has come from your stupidity, and you tell me that all the orcs are dead now so we wont say anything more on the matter, however if you don't get in quickly, before Celeboril has the chance to see you, he may have something to say about the state of you, I suggest that you all go and wash and get changed."
Looking at themselves, and noting for the first time their dirty, dishevelled blood stained appearance the four nodded and headed off to their respective rooms, all of them being very careful not to get found by Celeboril.
In about ten minutes time all four were washed and changed and they traipsed back downstairs again to be met by Lord Elrond once again.
"I didn't tell you this before as I knew it would hinder the cleaning progress but Arwen arrived back from Lorien today with Haldir as...an...escort..." the elf lord trailed off as he realised his listeners had vanished in a search for the visitors.
"You know" he said, muttering to himself, "If they had waited a minute I could have told them that she was in the dining room waiting for dinner, but I suppose they'll work it out" walking towards said dining room his thoughts were confirmed as he saw the five elves and human already having an animating conversation.
The meal passed quickly and the elves were preparing to leave again when Elrond stood up and announced.
"In celebration of my daughter's visit we will be congregating in the Hall of Fire tonight" many of the elves cheered at the proclamation but the twins, Estel and Legolas looked at each other and groaned, last time they had got together in the hall they had told enough embarrassing stories about each other to last for a lifetime, and in Estel's case several lifetime's due to the span of a humans life. Truly if walls had ears then that hall had enough stories with which to blackmail the four for a long long time.
"Why are you all groaning?" asked Haldir in surprise as they prepared to enter the great hall, "Surely it will be fun to swap tales of each other, I know some good ones about all of you" he said grinning suddenly
"That's what we were afraid of" said Elrohir as they trudged into the hall and found seats for the six of them in one of the corners of the vast room.
"So" Arwen said looking round the group expectantly, "Who wants to start, I don't mind doing the honours" she said with a mischievous grin.
The elves and human watched the she elf warily, they knew that there was no way of stopping her from telling her tale and they were all silently praying that they would not be her victim. As they had been thinking this Arwen had been surveying the group thoughtfully, but finally she made her decision and her eyes stopped on Legolas, her grin widening. Legolas's eyed the maiden in panic. //she wouldn't tell that story would she?\\ he thought to himself trying to reassure himself that he was safe, all the while silently pleading with Arwen not to do it. Taking no notice of the look on the prince's face she took a deep breath and began her tale.
(Yay a cliffy, if you want to find out what could put the prince into such a panic you'll have to review, I'll be wanting five reviews each time before I put the next chapter up, savvy?)
(Well here it is, the long awaited sequel to Tales of Stupidity, I will most probably be putting this one out in chapters so in reviews to this story, feel free to give me any ideas for pranks, embarrassing moments or any other things that could be mentioned as I am running out of ideas. Thanks, here's the first instalment.)
The opening of this chapter is dedicated to Rachel for her idea about the four getting told off by Elrond, thanks for the suggestion I think this works well for an opening paragraph.
In Which Visitors Arrive and Legolas Almost Has a Panic Attack
"Why do I always end up having this conversation when you four get together, can anyone answer that for me" Elrond asked, anger evident on his face, though the twinkle in his eye showed that he wasn't quite as angry as his tone of voice may have implied.
"Well you see ada" Aragorn said, stalling for time as long as he could in the hope that either he, Legolas or the twins could come up with a good enough excuse. "you see it was..."
"It was the trees fault" Elrohir broke in. Elrond raised one eyebrow sceptically
"Oh I see, so know you are blaming the flora for your reckless behaviour and stupidity, please explain how that works"
"Well you see, we were minding our business in the woods, when all of a sudden we remembered that you had told us not to go in that area because there were orcs there" Elrohir was obviously speaking from the deepest realms of fantasy now but he was so caught up in his tale that he didn't realise how stupid he sounded, nor did he catch the death glares of his three companions. "Yes so we heard orcs coming and, not wanting to be caught by them we leapt into a tree. But you know what ada, I think we've got some black huorns inhabiting our woods because no sooner had the orcs got under our tree than the evil thing threw us into their midst. And of course we had to fight them because otherwise they would have killed..." Elrohir trailed off as he finally noticed the glares of his companion, and the amused look on his fathers face.
"It didn't sound that stupid in my head" he muttered defencelessly.
"Yes well Ro, we shouldn't trust your head at the best of times, let alone when you're being glared at by ada, remind me to kick you next time we're in this situation."
"Well" Elrond said cutting off the muttered conversation, which of course he heard every word of. "Firstly I would hope that there will not be a next time though I expect that's wishful thinking where you four are concerned, and secondly I gather from his story that despite what I said you did go looking for orcs, and you did climb a tree, but I would imagine that rather than the tree threw you out I would guess that you all leapt out of the tree, am I correct?"
Deciding that there was no point in lying to the elf lord, the four of them nodded dejectedly.
"Well it looks as though no harm has come from your stupidity, and you tell me that all the orcs are dead now so we wont say anything more on the matter, however if you don't get in quickly, before Celeboril has the chance to see you, he may have something to say about the state of you, I suggest that you all go and wash and get changed."
Looking at themselves, and noting for the first time their dirty, dishevelled blood stained appearance the four nodded and headed off to their respective rooms, all of them being very careful not to get found by Celeboril.
In about ten minutes time all four were washed and changed and they traipsed back downstairs again to be met by Lord Elrond once again.
"I didn't tell you this before as I knew it would hinder the cleaning progress but Arwen arrived back from Lorien today with Haldir as...an...escort..." the elf lord trailed off as he realised his listeners had vanished in a search for the visitors.
"You know" he said, muttering to himself, "If they had waited a minute I could have told them that she was in the dining room waiting for dinner, but I suppose they'll work it out" walking towards said dining room his thoughts were confirmed as he saw the five elves and human already having an animating conversation.
The meal passed quickly and the elves were preparing to leave again when Elrond stood up and announced.
"In celebration of my daughter's visit we will be congregating in the Hall of Fire tonight" many of the elves cheered at the proclamation but the twins, Estel and Legolas looked at each other and groaned, last time they had got together in the hall they had told enough embarrassing stories about each other to last for a lifetime, and in Estel's case several lifetime's due to the span of a humans life. Truly if walls had ears then that hall had enough stories with which to blackmail the four for a long long time.
"Why are you all groaning?" asked Haldir in surprise as they prepared to enter the great hall, "Surely it will be fun to swap tales of each other, I know some good ones about all of you" he said grinning suddenly
"That's what we were afraid of" said Elrohir as they trudged into the hall and found seats for the six of them in one of the corners of the vast room.
"So" Arwen said looking round the group expectantly, "Who wants to start, I don't mind doing the honours" she said with a mischievous grin.
The elves and human watched the she elf warily, they knew that there was no way of stopping her from telling her tale and they were all silently praying that they would not be her victim. As they had been thinking this Arwen had been surveying the group thoughtfully, but finally she made her decision and her eyes stopped on Legolas, her grin widening. Legolas's eyed the maiden in panic. //she wouldn't tell that story would she?\\ he thought to himself trying to reassure himself that he was safe, all the while silently pleading with Arwen not to do it. Taking no notice of the look on the prince's face she took a deep breath and began her tale.
(Yay a cliffy, if you want to find out what could put the prince into such a panic you'll have to review, I'll be wanting five reviews each time before I put the next chapter up, savvy?)