One more? I think so. This is the last one, right? Unfortunately, our epic ends rather unspectacularly (but don’t worry. I will be back with more Lord of the Rings journals in January).
It began on a long and grueling ride upon our noble stead (no you can’t know its license plate number) that ended up on a road that was so bumpy. We were barley moving.
And it’s been forever. I’m trying to remember what happened. Crashed into a couple people. Just kidding. And got a little lost…Well, not really. There’s only one road. But the scene we were looking for, we were a bit iffy about which of the forests we were driving through was the correct forest. None of them were very big anyway. Now turn to your trusty TV or movie-running computer and insert the first disc of Fellowship of the Rings (scene called: The Midgewater Marshes). The scene we saw wasn’t actually in the Midgewater scene, but it’s the closest to it.
SO, the first thing you’ll notice are these really hugely weird bushes that are like a bunch of circles buried in the ground. We did actually see something like that, but not exactly. Well. Now I want you to rewind for a change. Past the apple scene, past the long shot of the forest past the conversation about where the hobbits are going with Aragorn and then there’s a bunch of Nazgul and oh, you missed it.
So, might as well watch the Nazgul, but that’s not the scene. Keep going. Frodo shouts after Aragorn, “Where are you taking us?”
“Into the wild,” is Aragorn’s response.
That’s not it either.
Keep going. Aragorn does this awesome move where he walks around this mossy tree. Great, right? Okay. Now Merry asks, “How do we know this Strider’s [Aragorn’s original name] a friend of Gandolf?”
Okay. So they’re in this insanely furry forest of green moss (Arg! Run!). We might have seen that. The forest we were in wasn’t quite as furry, but you never know. What I think I know we saw is after that conversation. The screen flashes to a long shot of a furry forest and the…quintuplet (?) is climbing up a gentle slope of rocks.
IF we saw that, which I’m not sure we did, it wasn’t nearly as foggy and that slope wasn’t nearly as sloppy. But If you get everything tilted right (e.g. journal entry on Shortcut to Mushrooms. They did the same sort of thing), you could make it look like a slope.
Unfortunately, we were finding it really hard to find all this and I was extremely occupied, so I couldn’t help. So, I got enchanted by this little blue and white bird and I kept trying to give it bread and crackers, but it just flew from branch to branch around the little forest. So, you know, I followed it.
Well, my parents luckily were able to unenchant me, but the bird succeeded in thwarting any quest-finding that day. *sigh* have to watch out for those magical birds.
Thanks for listening to The Quest for New Zealand’s Lord of the Rings by MEE!!!
