[Marileangorifurnimaluim]

Maril reads she has *gone into hiding* and tsk-tsk's the newspaper. It didn't take them long to jump on the story. Aside from the subject matter, it was all a rather dry study on the socio-sexual mores of hobbits, particularly those of Hobbiton (with footnotes and appendices provided, of course, concerning the Stoors and hobbits of Breeland). Fortunately some... sympathetic... hobbits found a 'tidy little spot' for her to 'hole up.' (Their words, not hers.)

Now her friends were rather too gleefully working on 'a little disguise.'

Maril couldn't possibly miss this rare opportunity to study the current societal norms of Middle Earth and multi-species interactions. Why, there hadn't been a study like this since the Second Age, Elves growing increasingly rare as they have -- real Elves that is, not the current popular plastic surgery, where incongruent details such as body hair are explained away with 'oh, I'm half-Elven.'

In trying on her disguise, wellllll... she supposed these things were one-size-fits-all, and despite snickering assurances she was most convincing, all she felt was a trifle undignified. And where could she hide her notebooks on this thing? There are no pockets!

*sigh*

The lengths a scientist will go to for research.

- Maril