Friday, August 04, 2006

Voice in the Darkness

I was lying in bed, and heard a voice coming from the left side of the room. Based on what it was saying, it was supposed to be Sauron talking to Gandalf. There were two problems with this. For one thing, I wasn't Gandalf; I was me. For another, the speaker was not Sauron; it was Smaug. I knew it was Smaug because I recognized the voice. I couldn't figure out why Smaug was impersonating Sauron, but I was really hoping he wouldn't figure out that I wasn't Gandalf. I thought the best thing to do was to just keep quiet and listen. I can't remember the details of what he was saying, but I do remember that he kept calling Gandalf "Mit," which was a nickname -- short for "Mithrandir," his Elvish name.

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