Lord of the Rings: Gone Rum—Merry & Gamling's Evil Trick
"Oh, Arwen, Arwen. I love you. Kiss me!" Aragorn mumbled in his sleep.
Gamling was listening outside of Aragorn's tent and could hear him talking. "He, he, he—" chuckled Gamling. "Merry, he-he, we should play a trick on him."
"We should," said Merry. "Aragorn is such a daddy's girl."
"I know," said Gamling. "We should scare him somehow."
"Yes," agreed Merry. "But, how? Aragorn is stupid, but he does not scare that easily."
"Oh," said Gamling. "I've got an idea that would scare the socks off that smelly sissy!"
He and Merry whispered quietly together for a few moments before coming to an agreement.
"Great," said Merry. "We'll do it tomorrow!"
The next night: Aragorn strode wearily to his tent after a tiring game of poker with Legolas. The elf had smoked him so badly that Aragorn had lost his boots, his sword, his bow and arrows, and the rest of his pipe-weed in the last game. Aragorn knew that Legolas didn't smoke and that he would probably sell the pipe-weed to Gimli and make a mint. He stomped angrily to his tent, threw open the door, and went inside. His eyes immediately fell on a tall hooded figure standing in the corner. The figure turned around and Aragorn saw the horridly dreadful visage of the King of the Dead. A greenish glow was about his face, and with a quivering, chill voice, he spoke. "Who enters my domain?"
Aragorn shrieked louder than a Nazgûl flying around in circles on an out-of-control fell beast, and his eyes grew as big as doughnuts. He hopped up and down, waving his arms, running wildly about the tent, screaming: "The King of the Dead! The King of the Dead!" This went on for several hours until Aragorn finally fainted and fell face-first in the dirt on the tent floor. Uproarious laughter followed as the alleged "King of the Dead" strolled out of the tent. Merry tore off his glow-in-the-dark face mask and climbed down off Gamling's shoulders. Once they had removed all their sinister get-up, they scampered back to their own tents, laughing hysterically.
Finis