[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

Scene: The guard-house at Isengard. Merry and Pippin have be reunited with Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli, and some of Farmer Maggot's "special" mushrooms have been found in a forgotten corner of a pack.

Merry: This is great pipeweed, man
Legolas: Does anyone feel hungry?
Gimli: Is the wall supposed to move like that? My father always told me that stone shouldn't bend and turn pink.
Aragorn: Oh, wow: there's this huge butterfly on your head, Leggy.
Merry giggles inanely for a while
Merry: WHAT?! WHO SAID THAT?!
Pippin: Chill out, man. The fear will pass.
Aragorn: 'Safunnything but when you sit in a place like this you wonder, ya know: are we really here? Or are we just made up people in someone else's imagination.
Legolas: That's deep, dude.
Gimli: Yeah, but if we're made up then that man over there with the pipe must be too.
Pippin: Which man?
Gimli: Wearing the funny suit
Pippin: You're seeing things, dude.
Gimli: Oh.
Legolas: I love you guys
Merry: If we're all made up, then none of this is really real! Help! We're all going to DIE!
All: Chill out, man; you're freaking me out.

And so on...

[ August 11, 2002: Message edited by: Squatter of Amon Rudh ]