Disclaimer: Just to let you all know. I neither own the characters nor the copy right on them. I'm just obsessed about them and think about them way too much
A/N: I know the whole person from our world finds him/herself in Middle Earth has been done numerous times ad nauseum, but I am writing this for a someone as a friendly joke, and thought I would share it with all of you out there as well. Please enjoy
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Prologue—The End To A Long Day (Or Late Night Discoveries)
Looking at her watch, Karla couldn't wait for this day to end. "Whoever thought of the idea of a back-to-back showing of the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy must have been out of his mind," Karla silently mused to herself as she wondered why she had agreed to work that much over-time. Considering that each movie was a little over three hours long and she was also covering for another girl and therefore was staying until closing, it was going to be a very long night for her.
Karla just couldn't wait for the day to end. Not much of a Lord of the Rings fan, seeing as how she had never even read the books, "like reading the books are that important anyway. I work in the theatre. The movie is just as good and a lot less time consuming." But watching the hoards of people queue up to buy their tickets for the movie, she was just glad that it wasn't a Star Trek Marathon showing. At least Lord of the Rings fans dressed and acted normally.
And so, when time for the end of her shift came, and it came none too soon for her liking, she slowly walked home feeling like she had had more than enough Lord of the Rings anything for a very long time. "And if Caitlin heard me say that she'd probably shoot me." No one was more of a Lord of the Rings fan than Karla's friend Caitlin. Well, there probably were people more fanatical about Lord of the Rings, but if so, Karla had happily never made their acquaintance.
The funny thing was, the more that she tried to think of something other than that marathon of a movie session the more it kept popping into her head. She couldn't get the movies out of her head, not that she minded thinking of Orlando Bloom all that much, but those hobbits, well, their feet did look kinda gross, and then there was that Gollum character. He's the stuff nightmares are made of.
But still, Karla was determined to put all of the movies out of her head. She came home, hopped on line, checked her email hoping that someone would have something interesting to say to her to distract her, but finding nothing interesting there decided to read a book before going to bed. The new Mary Higgins Clark was supposed to be very good and it only took her forever to get a copy from the Library.
But not even that was enough to distract her. Falling asleep, her last coherent thought was that if she ever saw another Tolkien movie again it would be to soon. And falling into a deep dreamless sleep Karla was glad that she could sleep in, as she didn't have to work the next day. And turning over in bed she was surprised at how comfortable the bed felt. For some reason it just felt softer and larger than she remembered, which was odd considering she'd been sleeping in that same bed for years now and had always felt exactly the same..
Waking up the next morning she couldn't help but feel small and slightly out of place, but since she was so comfortable she didn't want to open her eyes and start her day. "It's too early to get up," she mumbled to herself wondering why she felt like she had to be up and doing something.
Suddenly she felt someone shaking her, seemingly intent on waking her up. Just as she was about to tell her little brother to lay off and let her sleep in, a voice she had never heard before, but which sounded frighteningly familiar spoke to her.
"Pippin wake up. If you don't get out of bed everyone is going to leave without us!"
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TBC……