Chapter Six: Gimli's Water
Even though it would be MOST wrong for a dwarf not to know how to boil water, poor Gimli didn't.
You've got to give the guy a break though, I mean, he WAS only three and a half after all. The most he could do with fire was sneezing on it to put it out. Hey, what did you expect from him at that age?
But one rainy day, while Gimli's parents were out doing something, Gimli got hungry, really, really, REALLY, hungry. Don't ask me how Gimli got that hungry, I don't know.
Anyhow, Gimli realized that there was a last bowl of instant noodle in the cupboard. Now, I'm sure there weren't any instant noodles in Middle Earth, but they did, or at least pretend so.
Back to the point, Gimli realized that he was in desperate need for something to eat, so after a lot of jumping, a lot of falling, a lot of groaning, Gimli finally reached the bowl of instant noodles.
"Why are there so many squiggles?!" Gimli pouted as he saw all of those runes printed onto the paper bowl.
Then Gimli began to think, and think, and think. Then he remembered that he needed water, really, really, REALLY hot water in order to make them. So after dumping in all of the ingredients that the noodles came with, Gimli got some water from the well, (much trouble may I add) and looked around for matches.
Gimli wasn't the average dwarf, he was quite smart. After singing his beard three times and dumping the water on himself twice, Gimli managed to get the water over a fire.
Now it was most inconvenient, for by then Gimli realized that he was boiling water… in his parent's room. However, eager to soothe his hunger, Gimli waited for the fire to boil…
-X- After the water began to bubble -X-
"Oh! Oh!" Gimli cried in excitement. The water had begun to boil!!! But then Gimli sadly realized that he had no way of getting it out of the fire without one, burning himself, and two, boiling himself, or three, burning AND boiling himself. So instead, being the smart dwarf he was, he dumped the bowl of instant noodles into the boiling water.
Well, actually, that's what he would have done, but by then, all the water had boiled away, and it began to get smoky, very, very smoky…
"OH NO! THE EVIL FORCE HAD COME BACK!!! Gimli hollered, for he DID learn about Sauron and how dark it was and such, so poor Gimli mistook smoke for a force that he shall eventually help destroy.
And then, Gimli's parent came in…
"Good job, Gimli! You just succeeded in making a fire, AND boiling a water!" Glóin congratulated him. "Not to mention destroying my favorite bed sheet!"
Silence…
"But I was hungry!!!" Whimpered Gimli.