Tolkien_weekly drabble: From Dungeons Deep and Caverns Old

[azalaisdep]

Originally posted to tolkien_weekly  for the "Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors" challenge - comment here or there as you prefer:

From Dungeons Deep and Caverns Old
“…vanished without trace, and no amount of interrogation can turn up a conspirator - every Elf in the caverns has an alibi!”  Thranduil smacks his hand upon the oak table in frustration, glaring

Comments

[mrowe]

*heh* I'm with Legolas on this one :-) but then it is funny for anyone who isn't Thranduil...

[azalaisdep]

It's even funnier, of course, for those of us who know how it was done. I have a sneaking suspicion that even Thranduil may have chuckled once he found out - especially when he discovered how wet and uncomfortable the Dwarves got in the process! (That's assuming that Bilbo might have told him, on the ride back from the Lonely Mountain, at least the part about the barrels - I'm sure Gandalf would have warned Bilbo not to say anything to Thranduil about the Ring...)