Frodo's in trouble

[Anne]

He thought he was doing so well, throwing the ring into the volcano but now half of Middle Earth airspace is closed, the eagles are making threatening noises because the volcanic ash is playing merry hell with their wing feathers.

Aragorn offered the hobbits a ride home on his royal yatch, but Sam went green at the idea and said he's rather chance it walking to the Gap of Rohan and trying to catch a pony from there.  Nothing has been heard from Gimli or Legolas since they went off on that tour of Helms Deep and other caves and there are worries they might be be stranded.  It is hoped that Gimli can mine enough gold to cover their accomodation costs if their stay ends up being more protracted than originally planned.

Treebeard was quite happy at first, volcanic ash being very nourishing for trees, but now that some parts of Fangorn are up to their branches in ash he's changed his tune and is planning a sternly worded poem of complaint once the Entmoot as decided on the best word to rhyme with ash.

[Lessa]

ooooooooooooooooooops that's not good at all

[Athelas]

  Not to mention that the pH of the Anduin is about the same as that of lemon juice and all the fish are floating to the surface. This leads to an algal bloom in the Bay of Belfalas.
  Meanwhile, the soot is hampering the re-building eforts of Minas Tirith and Arwen has ditched the outdoor wedding  plans ("This gown is 3,652 years old, and thou wants me to wear it in THIS? Thou hast  been smoking too much pipeweed!")

[Anne]

Gandalf has gone back to being Gandalf the Grey as the dry cleaning costs were getting way out of hand.

DragonAir had been threatening not to pay the accommodation costs of the dwarves stranded away from The Lonely Mountain who had travelled down to take part in Aragorn and Arwen's wedding.  After a brief but sharp (ened axe) negotiation DragonAir agreed that it would cover all reasonable accommodation costs.  After a further intense series of talks, in which, we understand, the dwarves threatened to mine underneath the runway, DragonAir agreed to meet all accomodation costs, reasonable or otherwise.

[Athelas]

  Meanwhile, the eagles, who had been losing alot of fares due to the ban on air travel by the NTSB (Nimrodel Transportation Safety Board) , told the elves to stuff it, they were going to fly anyway. Gwaihir encountered no particulates all the way from Ithilien to Mirkwood, and soon after , the ban was lifted.
   This , however, didn't let Mordor off the hook. They were already deep in debt from the war, as well as risky banking practices, like investing in mortgage - backed securities with liabilities several times the GDP of the whole nation. Needless to say, the remaining inhabitants of Morder (mostly crows, wounded spiders, and some Southern Men who had wandered in), voted not to try to repay the debt their bankers had accrued. Having a volcano smack in the center of their nation that shut down the economic engines of Gondor, Rohan, and several other nations for weeks did little to engender warm feelings from the MEU (Middle Earth Union).

Call to undefined function tportal_version()