THE LORD OF THE RINGS STORY ROLEPLAY

[Alatar Maia]

Okay, so this is basically a thread where the members are doing their own version of The Fellowship and all the other books. So, I can start the story and then someone else can continue it with what they think should happen. But we NEED TO KEEP IT ALONG THE ORIGINAL STORYLINES. Thanks to Cap'nAlexParker for giving me the idea in the first place.

Chapter 1-Shire
Merry and Pippin were sitting by the Brandybuck River when Pipin said, "Hey. Merry!"
"What, Pippin?"
"D'you want to get some mushrooms from Farmer Maggot's field?"
"Ooh, yes! His are the best!"
and they set off.

I am just starting with a little bit because I don't know if anyone else will post

[Triptune]

Alatar, I just set up another thread for this same purpose right before you did. Lady and I have decided to use mine for collab and your's for the actual writing. Is that ok?

[Meriadoc Brandybuck]

Let's use this one for the story and the other for discussing and brainstorming it.

[Meriadoc Brandybuck]

Pippin and Merry crept along through the reeds at the edge of the riverbank until the ground under their feet turned from mud to tilled soil. The reeds became cornstalks, and they scrambled over the dirty white fence at the edge of the field.
"Pip, get the bag. I spy me some nice carrots over there."
"And cabbages!" Pippin exclaimed, trying to whisper.
Merry grinned mischievously and led him through the rustling stalks to the little garden patch.

[Triptune]

I like where you started the story- kind of an "untold" element to it.

[Meriadoc Brandybuck]

Feel free to continue it...

[Triptune]

The mud seeped between the friend's toes. A semidistant growling of a dog put thier march to a temporary standstill.
Although the Brandybucks and Tooks are awful sneakers, that won't keep them from trying. After the menacing growl died away, the two conspirators continued their march through the cornstalks. The dirt muffled footsteps amazingly well, and Farmer Maggot's dirt is surprisingly soft and fertile.

[Meriadoc Brandybuck]

"Did you hear that, Merry?" Pippin whispered urgently.
"Yes Pip, so we'd best hurry now." Merry replied as the recently faded growl became a howl and then several howls. He handed Pippin a bag and began hastily stuffing carrots into his own. Pippin scrambled through the neat dirt rows, shoveling random vegetables into the bag. The howls increased in frequency and soon the pair could hear the dogs coming, crashing through the cornfield and cutting off the way they had come. "Run Merry, run!" Pippin exclaimed, still trying to express himself quietly. The two hobbits took off, tearing through a different field, one they hadn't been through before. This field was one of wheat, and they didn't have much interest in the grains. Trampling stalks this way and that, Merry and Pippin flew through the dirt in record time. Despite their quick pace, the heavy bags slowed them down and the dogs bounded ever closer, howling as they came.

[Alatar Maia]

sorry... haven't posted on my own forum and I'm kind of rushed right now. I will later

[Meriadoc Brandybuck]

sorry... haven't posted on my own forum and I'm kind of rushed right now. I will later

Ok, great!