Hogwarts Play: Orthanc

[dfrankiswork at netscape.net]

Ms Skeeter has now managed to obtain details of another rehearsal from the Hogwarts Play.  Unfortunately, although she was able to maintain her usual high standard of accuracy in recording the progress of the rehearsal itself, she seems to have been subjected to a Confundus charm concerning the identity of the cast members.  We are therefore left to try to work that out for ourselves.

While I am 'on air', so to speak, may I be permitted to comment on another thread on this list?  Concerning Madam Elkins' nanology, I have no comment on the actual content (my in-tray is groaning as it is).  However, may I suggest, in the case where a number of posts were already prepared, there might have been tactical merit in releasing the posts gradually, perhaps on a daily basis, and concealing until late in the day the precise number of them?  The increased reader anticipation is, I believe, well worth the wait.  Not that the case is likely to arise again.

Ms Skeeter's notes from the rehearsal are below.

I remain,
Yours, etc.

David Frankis
Frankis & Stein

Scene: The pinnacle of Orthanc.  A cold wind is blowing.  Flames, steam and smoke are rising from the plain far below.

Enter Saruman, his long white hair glinting.

Saruman: Zis tower ees so draughty!  I am, 'ow you say, freezing.  And zese Uruk-Hai, zey would never be permitted in a *proper* Dark Tower.  Two zousand years of development and zey still can't get ze central heating to work.

Enter Ugluk

Saruman: Get out! Go and find me ze One Ring.  It should be easy enough: eet eez a plain gold ring, and anyone wearing it will be eenveesible.
Ugluk: Tee hee hee! Ickle hobbits! Splash them with white paint!

Ugluk floats out, upside down.  Saruman goes over to a crystal ball

Saruman: Master, the plan is unfolding as you ordered.  The clones are ready.

Sauron: (offstage) You'd think I'd get a line here, wouldn't y - 

Curtain falls

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