The World has changed�
I feel it in the water�
I feel it in the earth�
I smell it in the air�
I see it in the trees�
I see it on the Elves� faces�
I see it in Gollum�s eyes�
I feel it in Mount Doom (Dammit, that�s hot)
I feel it in the Shire�
I smell it in Isengard (Saruman always had lousy aftershave)
I see it in the grass�
I see it in our houses (our house needs some painting too, Celeborn)
I see it in the sky�
Anyway I think I got my point across. People grew forgetful, and forgot loads of things they weren�t supposed to. So now I got this stupid piece of paper with what I have to bring them in remembrance. Oh let�s start, I need to do my hair again.
Very long ago, when the Dark Lord first rose, but we didn�t know he was, obviously, he forged some rings. He made three for us Elves, (and I got one!), seven for the Dwarves, and Nine for the race of Men. Not fair, if you ask me. If THEY had gotten three, we wouldn�t be covered in Nazgul now. Celeborn made some silly rhyme for it, too. Let me think. Ah yes.
But (drumrolls please) ANOTHER Ring was made!!! Yes, there was. Sauron, the Dark Lord of Barad-dur, secretly made his own (Silly, though, hobbits didn�t get one, either never heard one complain). This Ring though, was beyond all others. You might wonder, why did he give us Rings in the first place, when he later made one to rule them over. It was, I guess, some kind of double-sneakiness, give-take, take-give. Typically Dark-Lord stuff, y�know. This Ring possesed the ability to bind people together for an eternity through the most horrifying vows of all: the marriage vow. He was called� The One Wedding Ring.
Everyone desired this Ring, and evil as Sauron is, because he is after all the Dark Lord, he used that and all the free peoples of Middle-Earth fell soon under his reign.
3000 years ago, a Last Alliance (well well, Gandalf did you find your dictionary again?) of Men and Elves marched against them. All was going quite well until Sauron himself suddenly appeared on the battlefield, with his Ring. Oh and well to make a long story short, Sauron slays the Men-King, and his son, what�s his name again, oh yes Isildur, thank you Elrond, took up the broken sword and chopped Sauron�s old black hand off. Sauron perished and Isildur took the Ring. Unfortunately for him, the Ring did not approve of his choice and didn�t want to bind them. He betrayed Isildur�to his death. Long the Ring rested, until the Creature Gollum found it, and took it deep into the Misty Mountains. There the Ring certainly could not find any fitting match, and thus it consumed him. The Ring then felt work for him creeping back into the world, and it decided to abandon the miserable brat, I mean, Gollum.
Then something happened, the Ring did not intend. It was picked up by one of them shorties, those hobbits-thingies. Bilbo Baggins of the Shire. Sauron decided, he would like a shorty for a while, but Bilbo was definitely too old. So Bilbo, always a bargainer, made a deal with the Dark Lord and promised him his nephew Frodo when he was old enough to marry.
Now something�s supposed to happen, I think�
