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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 6773640" data-attributes="member: 6777052">They camped that night in a hollow beside a babbling brook that was good to drink from, and Rylnethaz surprised everyone, not least himself, by improvising a bivouac from little more than a coil of rope and some ration bags, and by catching a rabbit for the stew pot. Clotbert seemed to drift off quietly into sleep, giving the others a chance to talk."What's all this about me being someone called Frodo?" asked Fingers. "Where does that come from?""Frodo Baggins in a character in a story book," explained BoldItalic. "He was a halfling, like you, supposedly from a place called "The Shire" but not the real Shire, obviously. His main claim to fame was that he had a magic ring that allowed him to turn himself invisible whenever he liked. It turned out, though, that the ring had side effects and anyone who wore it long enough would become evil and try to dominate the world. So, of course, there is a bad guy in the book who tries to hunt him down to grab the ring for himself. In the end, Frodo throws the ring into a volcano to stop the bad guy getting it.""Seems daft to me," said Fingers, "He should have just sold it to the bad guy for a lot of gold. Anyway, where does this 'Gandalf' fit in?""He spends the entire book trying to straighten out the mess. It was all his fault in the first place.""Figures.""Who am I supposed to be?" asked Rylnethaz. "An elf called Paragon, or something?""Aragorn. That's a tricky one, because he wasn't an elf in the story, although his father-in-law was a half-elf. Also, he spent most of the story as a ranger in leather armour, so you don't even look the part. By the end, though, he did become king so perhaps it's not so far wrong. "Do I get to marry the princess?""No, he marries an elf girl but she outlives him because he's only a human. She's a grieving widow for about five hundred years and then turns into a small flower, I think. I don't remember that part very well," admitted BoldItalic."Any idea how we can bring Clotbert back to his senses?" wondered Fingers."Kingsfoil!" said Rylnethaz suddenly in a strange voice, then looked confused."What did you just say?""I have no idea.""It sounded like 'kingsfoil'. In the story, there is a plant called kingsfoil that is supposed to cure all ills," said BoldItalic. "How could you possibly have known that?""Again, I have no idea. This madness isn't catching, is it?" asked Rylnethaz anxiously."I wonder if this is it?" asked Fingers, producing a small bunch of strange flowers from somewhere. "It's growing just up the bank, there. The inside of the flower looks like a crown, doesn't it?""We could boil some up in a cup of water and get Clotbert to drink it," suggested Rylnethaz. "It's worth a try.""You should drink some too, it might heal up that scalp wound.""Good idea. I'll get some fresh water from the stream."</blockquote>

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