Chapter 32: First Drama Meeting

"Alright, to make things fun we will draw ourselves doing this job. I will give each of you a pencil and an eraser. No Gimli, you cannot eat the eraser." Galadriel said, handing out paper, pencils and erasers. "Then, you will come to the front and explain your picture." Galadriel added. Legolas' hand shot up.

"Yes, Thranduilion?" Galadriel asked, although she knew what his question was.

"Can we sit and do our work with a friend?" The elfling asked. Galadriel nodded her head in a yes.

Legolas sat between Haldir, Elladan and Elrohir. Galadriel watched the children draw and decided to help Gimli.

"Gimli, you drew on the table, purposely!" Galadriel scolded. Gimli had drawn a very long beard that went off his paper and onto the table.

"But the paper's not big enough to draw the big beard I will have in the future!" Gimli pouted.

Mini Nazgul was very busy drawing himself. He had a pink shirt on and was holding peace balloons, looking like a very friendly nazgul. It actually looked very nice, for Mini was about 17 years of age, Nazgul years that is.

"Has everyone finished?" Galadriel asked. When she got not a single 'no', she continued.

"Alright, we will be explaining our drawings now. Boromir, you first." Galadriel ordered, eager to find out what the little rebel had thought up.

Up came Boromir to the front of the class and he held up his picture. There was a purple, distorted fat person labelled 'Daddy', a little green stick person labelled 'Brother' and a dot labelled 'me'. At the top of the one-labelled 'Daddy', there was a speech bubble that said, "I'm not crazy!" and indeed he looked crazy.

"Um, Boromir, wasn't your artwork suppose to be you being king of Gondor?" Galadriel asked. Boromir sighed.

"I changed my mind! Now I want to be the guy in the white suit who takes my daddy away to the special people hospital, like where Glorfindel went." Boromir said. "Daddy calls it the funny farm."

Galadriel thought that that was creative so Boromir got a B-.

"How about Legolas, why don't you show us your work?" Galadriel watched Legolas come to the front. Legolas revealed his picture: A purple penguin with blond hair.

"It's me, as a penguin." Legolas said before sitting. Galadriel decided that that deserved a B.

"Me Theatre! Me Theatre!" Tom repeated. In Tom's English that he had learnt from eavesdropping, theatre meant show, so in Tom's mind he was saying 'Me Show'.

"Um, yes Tom. You go and show the class what you made." Galadriel said to Tom.

Tom waddled up to the front of the class. He showed his picture. It was very well done, the trees where beautiful and it the middle was a more mature looking (but still plump) Tom with a bird in his hands. Galadriel was very impressed but worried that Tom had traced the picture so put his mark to an A-.

When Mini showed his, Galadriel was again very impressed, but she did not think he traced since Galadriel knew that Mini would not be able to find a picture of a Nazgul in pink selling peace balloons in any magazine or even on the internet, so Mini got an A.

"Now why don't you g-

"COULD ALL STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN THE SCHOOL PLAY PLEASE GO DOWN TO THE THEATRE ROOM. ALL STUDENTS IN THE SCHOOL PLAY PLEASE GO TO THE THEATER ROOM. JANITOR TO FRONT OFFICE." The intercom boomed. All the children who had gotten roles in the play ran down to the theatre room, expecting to see Glorfindel, but where disappointed to see Thranduil was the replacement.

"Since your usual instructor, Glorfindel, is injured and Simon is busy doing some sort of television show, I will be instructing you. I am professor Oropherion-

"No, you are ada." Legolas said. Some of the elflings giggled.

"Yes Legolas, I am your ada but as for the rest of you, I am professor Oropherion… Okay, here are your scripts." Thranduil handed out the scripts.

"Now I will be taking attendance to be certain all of you showed up." Thranduil said.

"Brandybuck, Merry?"

"Here."

"Baggins, Frodo?"

"Right here!"

"Evil, Melkor?"

"Yea."

"Nephew of the King, Eomer?"

"I'm here, sir!"

"Figwit, playing Sleepy?"

"Hi!"

"Aragorn, playing Sneezy?"

"Hello!"

"Haldir, playing Doc?"

"Yes sir."

"Feanor, as Bashful… Why that's not very like Feanor, playing someone bashful!"

"I'm right here. And I heard what you said. Don't make me come over there and curse you, I'm not a little kid you know!"

"Yes, anyways, Boromir as Grumpy?"

Boromir grumbled.

"Eowyn, as happy?"

Eowyn let out a shrill yell of joy.

"I hope that was a happy scream… Arwen as the queen?"

"Here I am…" Arwen sounded bored.

"Sam as… hm… The apple?"

"Here! And 'm eating an apple, its good practise they say!"

"Legolas as - oh, I agree with this - the prince… Oh wait, there's more, oh, Legolas as prince charming." Thranduil said.

"Here, ada!" Legolas giggled.

"And um… Oh… Oh my… Gimli son of Gloin as… Snow White."

"Here!" Gimli jumped up and down repeatedly.

"Also, their has been two narrators hired just recently: Illiendal Thranduiliel and Sernaer… I cannot make out the rest. Are you both present?" Thranduil asked, scanning the room for his daughter and her best friend. He saw them and ticked them off as present.

"This is your first meeting of many. These meetings mean you will be missing class time and perhaps even coming after school. If you have noticed, the students who had been exchanged are here, too. This is because we do not agree with sending them away at a young age. If you may have noticed as well, the exchange students from here except Mini have left, because Mini was the only one who wanted to parentally enrol in the school. So, we are all here and today we will be writing a script!"

To be continued…

Matrixelf: I did the whole Legolas thing because my friend had asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I said a penguin…

Gods-girl2004: Gollum is janitor. It's fun doing Galadriel's class because she can read minds!

Bberry06: Yep, lil' Nenmir sure is. You will see a lot more of lil Nenmir in Haldir's Return which is the sequel to Haldir's Here… Creative name, eh? Haldir will be watching not only Legolas, but also lil' Nenmir too! Also trying to give Illiendal some lessons in archery but the first one does not turn out well on Haldir's behalf…

Haldir's Heart and Soul: Yea, that's a different story but… I still can!

Mistopurr: I don't know… It's not like I want to be a penguin or anything… (Runs away)

Manwathiel: Here is more! I have a bit of writer's block with this one… That's why it takes a while to update.

Here comes the hockey puck: I don't think Cield found it very yummy after eating a few layers of it…

Mesozoic Flower: I got Galadriel to give out creativity points in this one, to Boromir. Penguins are the best! Aside from llamas and monkeys, it's a tie between the three.