Narrator: Picture for
Schools featuring Christopher John Reuel Tolkien, take seventeen.
[clack]
Director: Action!
Christopher Tolkien: After Samwise's valiant rescue
of Frodo, the pair made their way into the very heart of Mordor disguised
with armour and coverings scavenged from the slain orcs of Minas Morgul
and Cirith Ungol. Taking advantage of the broken and twisted landscape
of the haunted plain of Gorgoroth, they made their way to the foot of
ominous Orodruin... the dread mountain of fire that was their destination.
Yet, with each passing step, the burden of the ring became ever more
impossibly grievous for Frodo to bear. So great was the evil power of
the One
Ring near the cursed place of it's making that it is very noteworthy
to know that Samwise never returned the pocket change taken from Frodo
during the brief time he carried the precious ring. For his part, Frodo
never bothered much about what became of his pocket money and afterwards
always assumed the orcs must have made off with it. This act would,
unfortunately, haunt and gnaw away at the otherwise faithful and steadfast
Samwise Gamgee's soul through the many remaining years of his long life...
[clop clop clop]
(what appears to be a Gondorian knight rides up behind C.J.R. Tolkien)
Christopher Tolkien: Now, a clue as to exactly how
much pocket change was involved may or may not be found in my new upcoming
book "The History of Middle-Earth Vol. XXXVII: Grocery Lists, Doodles,
Cleaning Receipts, and Other Things my Father Never Possibly Intended
to Publish" which will be available at fine bookstores everywhere by
the summer of—
Knight: Aaah-ha!
[slam]
[hack chop hack]
[clunk]
C.J.R.'s Wife Baillie: Chris!

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