Corriana: Why thank you! I don't know where I come up with half of this stuff. i'm glad you enjoy my sense of humour! i'm very glad that you're enjoying the story! Happy reading!
Chapter eight
Choices
After the rule skits finished up, Kisha led the campers back into the Great Hall. After the staff and the campers settled down Kisha spoke.
"Now, since this is a Middle-Earth theme summer camp this year we can do one of two things tonight. Now either tonight or tomorrow we'll be watching the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy to get the campers who have not seen it equated with the story. If we start it tonight it will not be finished until six or seven tomorrow morning but everyone will get a free day tomorrow to do whatever you want in the camp. Or we can start it tomorrow morning and have everyone get up at three in the morning so we can have the movies done by five. So we shall take a vote. Who wants to start watching them tonight?"
Not one hand remained down. Everyone figured that it would be more fun to watch the movies at night and finish them tomorrow morning then to be woken up early and spend all day inside watching a twelve hour movie. Kisha smiled and clapped her hands together.
"Wonderful! We will all gather back here at five forty-five to begin the first movie. Please get what you will need to be comfortable. In the dining hall there are drinks, sandwich meat, and other goodies in case anyone gets hungry. So be back at five forty-five and we will start up the movie!"
The excited campers rushed off towards Mordor and Numenor (remember the names of the dorms?) and the staff headed over to the staff dorm which was dubbed Lammoth because every time Morgoth screams or lets out a frustrated sigh, the noise lingers for hours on end.
Kisha and Gwen walked into Lammoth together and went down the hall.
"Well the first day is going better then expected," Kisha commented.
Gwen glared at her.
"If you call being threatened with a pillow at eight o'clock in the morning, trying to kill someone with a baseball bat, and getting hit in the head with a football then yes, I guess it is going better then expected."
Kisha shrugged.
"Hey, I thought someone was going to die today. I'm really glad the campers don't realise that they really are from Middle-Earth."
"I don't think that they believe it's possible for them to really be from Middle-Earth," Gwen replied.
"Well I'm sure someone will figure it out in six-weeks. And even if they do it's not like anyone outside of camp will believe them," Kisha said.
They stopped in front of Kisha's room and she paused in the doorway.
"I'll see you in the Great Hall for the movie at five forty-five sharp!" she said smiling.
Gwen rolled her eyes.
"I'll be there unless the two Dark Lords aren't planning an ambush for when I enter the room. If you hear a scream it's just me dying."
Kisha playfully pushed her.
"I think Manwë would do more then talk to them if they actually hurt you or someone else at this camp."
Gwen nodded.
"Yeah I know. You're right."
"When am I ever wrong?" Kisha asked.
"Twenty-three hours of the day."
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Gwen's room light was off and Sauron stood behind the door while Morgoth hid behind a curtain. The two waited for Gwen to walk in and sure enough they heard footsteps approaching the room. The door opened and a figure went to turn the lights on. It didn't work; Morgoth figured out how to unplug the lamp. The figure didn't make a sound but walked deeper into the room. As planned Sauron slammed the door shut behind the figure and Morgoth came out from behind the curtain. The two tackled what they thought was Gwen. It took about thirty seconds for them to realise that it was not Gwen whom they tackled but Manwë. Gwen had asked him to enter the room first because she was afraid they would be planning something. Both Sauron and Morgoth realised it was Manwë when the body they tackled did not feel like a girls, nor did the booming voice that screamed out, 'Morgoth! Sauron!'
Gwen walked into the room carrying a flashlight. She beamed the light down on the three on the floor and rolled her eyes. She knew they were planning something. She fumbled through the room and found the lamp and plugged it back in. The room illuminated with light and now the four of them could see that Aragorn, Arwen, Elrond, Elros, and Elrond's two sons had formed a mob around the door to see what was going on.
"I think we need another talk," Manwë threatened as he picked himself off the floor.
"I think you need to do more then talk," concluded Elrond.
"Well how about you come with me and maybe we can both knock some sense in them. I'll see if Tulkas wants to come too. We can have a grand old party," Manwë said as he dragged the two out of the room by the ears.
"It was only a prank!" Sauron protested. His protests got weaker and weaker as Manwë led them outside. Gwen could hear a laugh coming from outside and she knew Tulkas had joined in on the 'talking party'. Gwen took the opportune moment of peace to change into something more comfortable and grab her blanket. Leaving the room, and remembering to close the door, she walked down and out of Lammoth and to the Great Hall. She placed her blanket on one of the couches and walked back out to the dining hall. There she made herself a smoked meat sandwich and grabbed a small bottle of Coke.
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"This is so amazing!" exclaimed Tammy Falkins. She was Kit's and Chrisy's other roommate for the six-weeks. They were on the third floor of the Numenor dorm room. Tammy was a huge fan of anything Middle-Earth and she was one of the first campers to faint upon seeing, what they thought, was a person dressed up as Legolas.
The three girls changed into something that would be a lot more comfortable then grubby jeans and a t-shirt and grabbed pillows and blankets. They walked down the hall and passed by other girls, and boys, who were talking and giggling over the staff.
"They look exactly like them! It's amazing!" exclaimed Tanya Fonstand as her and her roommates, Jessie and Sarah, exited their dorm room.
A rumour was circulating around the dorms that the staff actually was from Middle-Earth. To Kat it sounded impossible but at the moment anything seemed possible.
Karen Wynn, a friend Kat had made two years ago at this very camp, caught up with them on the stairs.
"I can't believe this," she said acting just like everyone else. "It's just so cool that the theme for this year is Middle-Earth. Oh, I haven't seen the movies in over a year. I can't wait to watch them again!"
Chrisy and Kat agreed with her.
"A movie marathon at summer camp, who would have thought this, could happen?" Kat said excitedly.
The girls continued their chit-chat all the way to the Great Hall. It was getting close to five forty-five and everyone was settling in. Campers, and staff alike, had sodas, sandwiches, blankets and pillows.
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"Okay is everyone settled?" Kisha asked.
All the campers, and staff, nodded. Kisha then started the movie and Arathorn II shut off the lights. Kisha squeezed in between Gwen and Nienna and the voice of Galadriel was heard on the screen.
Now before the movie had started, and before the campers even arrived at camp, one of the things Kisha and Gwen wanted to do after last minute clean up was to teach the Middle-Earth characters basic technological devices, such as the television and electricity. Kisha did this so that none of them would be completely astonished when they started the movie.
While the movie was still in The Shire Kisha had a thought. Since the characters that came from the Third Age, especially the ones who were active during the Fellowship of the Ring, arrived to Camp Glingal just after they left Rivendell, they wouldn't know what was going to happen about the ring. So everything from disc two of the first movie and then everything after that would be new for every Tolkien character. She shuttered.
Oh no, Sauron…he's going to freak. Gwen's not going to have a peaceful sleep tomorrow that's for sure.
The movie continued onward and it was now the scene inside Bree at The Prancing Pony. 'Strider' was just shown on screen and a few of the girls swooned.
"Oh I look so rugged and manly," Aragorn joked.
Arwen playfully hit him.
"Well you are rugged and manly," she replied as she laid her head on his chest.
Elrond rolled his eyes and walked from across the room to sit between the two of them. Arwen rolled her eyes in disgust.
"Dad, we're grown adults here," she said.
Elrond shook his head.
"I don't care, as far as I'm concerned he is not the one for you," Elrond replied.
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The Fellowship was decided and this seemed too much for some of the girls. They promptly fainted and everyone around them pretended that they had fallen asleep. Gwen began to nod off on Nienna's shoulder but woke up when Kisha elbowed her in the ribs and told her it wasn't sleep time yet.
The movie droned onward and now that it was on disc two the characters from the Third Age seemed a lot more interested in the movie. Every now and then Sauron would shout, saying that the eyeball was just for show and he actually had a body. Girls, and some of the boys, turned around and hit him with pillows and told him to shut up. Kisha stifled a laugh.
Every member of the fellowship was at the edge of their seat during the Kazad-Dum sequence. Before Gandalf battled the Balrog, Fëanor decided that he had had enough and it was time to go to bed, but when Gandalf fell into shadow Fëanor swiftly sat back down and made a comment such as, 'Now it's getting interesting!'
Frodo looked at Gandalf shocked, and saddened but he also looked glad that they had gone here instead of staying in Middle-Earth. This way Gandalf didn't fall into shadow but was sitting next to Frodo on one of the couches in the back of the room.
Everyone appeared in tears about Gandalf falling, except for those who had scene it and Morgoth. He was screaming, 'No! Not my Balrog! Was that Gothmog? Tell me that wasn't Gothmog!'
"SHHH!" screamed a few girls at Morgoth. He was about to teach them a lesson for screaming at the greatest Dark Lord in existence when Manwë grabbed hold of his arm and gave him a look of, 'remember our talk outside? Shall we do it again?'
Morgoth gave up and sulked in his chair.
"Stupid humans," he mumbled to himself.
"Oh come now Morgoth, we're not so bad," Gwen said.
The glare from him was deadly.
The vision of Lothlórien made Galadriel jump out of her seat. Her eyes flashed of anger.
"It's preposterous! That's not what it looks like!" she yelled.
"Well Mr. Jackson did the best he could," a camper sitting in front of Galadriel commented.
"He could have tried better!"
Boromir's death scene caused a riot from the staff. Sauron and Morgoth began laughing and Denethor jumped out of the couch. Boromir looked ill and Aragorn shuttered.
"I kissed him? I kissed him?" he muttered.
"Would you all just shut up? You're acting like you've never scene the movie!" someone exclaimed.
"Or maybe they're actually from Middle-Earth and they don't know what's going to happen," another said.
Since the campers had their backs to the staff, they did not see the worried exchange of glances.
"Nah, they're not really from Middle-Earth. Sauron and Morgoth would have killed us all already," Kat replied.
The others nodded and Morgoth shifted in his chair. Manwë glared at him for the second time that night.
The movie ended around ten. Kisha yawned, stretched and walked to the front of the Great Hall.
"Okay, we're going to take a half-hour break and we will be starting The Two Towers at ten-thirty. So take a break, get some food, stretch, go to the bathroom, or do whatever. But just be back at ten-thirty, thanks!"
Ulmo turned the lights back on and the campers left the Great Hall for a break.
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"Would have killed us all already, I'll show them!" Morgoth fumed as he walked down the hallway.
Gwen rolled her eyes.
"Oh calm down they're only teenagers."
"Sauron, we should do something to them tomorrow," Morgoth plotted.
Sauron smiled evilly and the three entered the room. Sauron was about to enter first, when Morgoth grabbed him by the arm and pulled him away from the door.
"Ladies first," he said with a smile.
Gwen eyed Morgoth suspiciously.
"Why? What did you do to the room? Five seconds ago you were griping about how the campers didn't think you were really from Middle-Earth because you hadn't gone all psycho on everyone and now you're acting all chivalrous," Gwen replied.
Morgoth shrugged.
"Well I'll do something to the campers but not to the staff. Manwë would kill me if I did anything to them," he said.
Gwen rolled her eyes.
"Oh whatever," she replied as she opened the door.
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"YGAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"What was that?" Kisha said as she looked up from her book in the big staff living room.
Most the other staff members, and some of the campers, heard the shrill screaming that began down the hallway.
"Did you hear that?" Aragorn asked. He was also in the living room picking the dirt from under his fingernails with one of his knives.
"That almost sounded like…" Kisha trailed off.
Aragorn and Kisha looked at each other and gasped.
"Gwen!"
--
Picking the glass out of her forehead didn't bother Gwen, nor did removing the thumb tacks from her jaw. But what bothered Gwen the most was that she actually bought Morgoth's lame excuse. Sauron stood next to the doorway doubled over in laughter. Morgoth picked his way into the room and sat on the bed. Folding his hands behind his head, he leaned back against the wall and watched the mayhem of his handiwork unfold in front of him. He heard some of the staff run down the hallway towards the sound. Kisha and Aragorn were first on the scene. Kisha took one look at Gwen and almost fainted. Aragorn looked into the room and saw Morgoth sitting on his bed snickering.
"You are in so much trouble!" Aragorn yelled.
Morgoth shrugged.
"It was only a joke," he replied.
Kisha examined Gwen's face. Gwen had gotten most of the glass and thumb tacks removed. She knew she was lucky because none of the glass shards had hit her in the eyes, and the thumb tacks didn't go down her throat and cause bleeding in her mouth.
"Mark my words Morgoth, you're so going down," she said as Kisha led her down the hallway to the infirmary. Kisha's prediction that the infirmary would be used often this year was proving accurate as it was only the first day of camp and twice it had been used. The sad thing was that none of the campers needed it yet.
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"MORGOTH!" Manwë bellowed down the hallway.
From inside the room Morgoth cringed and Sauron continued to laugh.
"You're in for it now," Sauron said. "You almost killed a staff member. I think that deserves a talking to from Manwë."
"Oh shut up," Morgoth exclaimed.
Manwë stood at the doorway of the room. He didn't just look angry, he looked livid.
"What in the name of Ilúvatar possessed you to do that?" Manwë yelled.
Before Morgoth could answer, Manwë had Morgoth by the ear and was leading him down the hallway to have a special talk. The old talks didn't seem to be working and Manwë knew a talk of a different kind might work.
"I want all the male Valar outside for a chat with Morgoth, right now!" Manwë screamed down the hallway.