"I thought we'd be leaving Rivendell in an hour. Why on Middle Earth did we stay the night?" Frodo glared acusingly at his friends.

"Sorry that we were tired and wanted to rest Frodo." Primrose narrowed her eyes at him.

"Tired? You guys spent the entire time with Linder playing with ThunderPuff!"

Everyone began defending themselves.

"ThunderPuff is cute!" said Primrose.

"He's fun to play with!" Bilbo added.

"I haven't played with a kitten in years." Sam stated.

"You're not our boss Fro Yo." Esmerelda was eating a bag of potato chips.

"Guys that cloud looks like Chris Pratt." Pippin looked at the others.

"I don't know why but it does."

"Who's Chris Pratt?" Bilbo asked.

"Never mind."

Frodo groaned.

"Will you guys please focus? Merry's already a day ahead of us!"

"When did you become Mr. Uptight?" Primrose glared at Frodo.

"Hey. I'm the one who comes up with the nicknames." Esmerelda tossed her empty bag of potato chips behind her.

"Can we just hurry up and-"

"ThunderPuff! ThunderPuff where are you?"

The hobbits turned around and saw Lindir running towards them.

"Have you guys seen ThunderPuff? I can't find him anywhere!"

"Where did you last see him?" Primrose asked.

Before Lindir could reply a soft noise came from Frodo.

Meow

Everyone glared at Frodo.

"Frodo. What's in your bag?" Sam asked.

Frodo shook his head nervously.

"Nothing! There's absolutely no-"

A furry black head popped out of Frodo's bag.

Meow

"ThunderPuff!"

Lindir grabbed his kitten and hugged him tightly.

"Aw... Who's daddy's wittle boy? Huh? You are! Yes you are my wittle snooky wooky puffy."

Lindir walked off with his kitten while the others glared at Frodo.

"Dude." Pippin shook his head. "You stole someone's kitten?"

"Not cool." Bilbo scolded.

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"More halflings? Dailoth please deal with this."

Thranduil gave an exasperated sigh and slumped in his throne.

"Well that's rude." Esmerelda glared at the elvenking.

"Forgive him." Dailoth said with an apologetic smile.

"He's been having to deal with a lot lately."

"My oldest son just got over a mid-life crisis, my daughter is in love with a mortal, and my youngest son will not listen to me!"

Dailoth led the hobbits out of the throne room.

"I'll make sure your stay is comfortable. If you need anything just let me know."

"Where's your kitchen?" Esmerelda asked.

"Don't answer that." Frodo said.

"Have you seen another hobbit come through here?" Pippin asked.

"Actually yes. Yesterday a young hobbit stayed here for the night. He left this morning." Dailoth answered.

"Did he say where he was going?"
Pippin asked.

Dailoth shook her head.

"No. He did not."

"Then where the Mordor is he?" Bilbo exclamed.

"Bilbo! Language." Primrose scolded.

"Sorry."

"Is that Legolas's room?" Sam asked.

"Yes." Dailoth replied. "But he's not here right now so I wouldn't-"
"HE HAS LEGOS!"

Pippin raced into the room with Esmerelda right behind him.
The others followed.

"You shouldn't be in here." Dailoth said sternly.

"He has every Batman set!" Pippin looked around in awe.

"And Marvel!" Esmerelda added.

"Hey look! Lego Dimensions!" Bilbo looked at the game.

"He has every character!"

"Does he have Lego Lord of the Rings?" Sam asked.

Bilbo looked through all the video games.

"He does!"

"Let's play it!" Pippin grabbed a controler.

"I want to be Gandalf!"

"I'm Aragorn!" Bilbo shouted.

"I want to be me!" Esmerelda said.

"You're not in this game." Pippin told her bluntly.

"Yeah I am."

"No you're not."

"Yes I am. Look."

"Es, you're not-"

Pippin looked at the screen.

Esmerelda Brandybuck

Esmerelda stuck her toungue out at him and began playing the game.

"Will you all please get out?" Dailoth pleaded.

"They won't listen. Once they start something nothing can stop them." Frodo told her.

"Then what will you do?" Dailoth asked.

"There's only one thing to do."

"What?"

Frodo grabbed a controler.

"I'm Gimli!"

"I'm Boromir!" Sam shouted.

"I want Legolas!" Primrose joined in.

Dailoth sighed.

What on Arda am I supposed to do with these hobbits?

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The next chapter will finally reveal what Merry has been up to.