[Child of the 7th Age]

Off the story line----Well, I'm back!

Rose and others involved in this plot line--

I have been dealing all day with nasty machinery that breaks down. Down with machines! I usually don't post much Friday evening and Saturday morning and afternoon, but other than that I'm generally available, as the saying goes.

I hope Frodo feels better. He sounds miserable.

If you want to do the ship to the Undying Lands, I can give you a nice send off early tomorrow morning--a humorous mixup which ends up me thinking I'm giving you a nice present and you sure it's a not too gentle hint that everyone wants you to depart. Just make sure the boat remains docked till I get there. I won't post it till you or somebody tells me to go ahead.

Since we're all dead here already, I would think some of the restrictions on visiting Tol Eressea and Aman would not exactly apply to us. As far as the rest of us getting there, if we could get a ship from Mith, wouldn't Sam or Frodo (or Gimli) remember how to find the Lost Road? Maybe Frodo and Sam could get over their wounds on the ship. The journey is sure to take a while, and we might even have some adventures on the way there or back. (I heard a nasty rumor about some very bad guys trying to refloat Numenor, but it may not be true!)

My dragon could come along and fly overhead. That way, we'd have additional transport, if someone or something needed to come later, be rescued, etc. Once we're actually over in Aman, maybe one of the Valar or the Elves would have an "assignment" for us back in Middle Earth to go retrieve something they need.

If you want to do something else like the Red Book, that's fine too. Just let me know--I'll hang low till I see what you want to do.

The package? Too tell the truth, I'm not sure what's in it. I was just trying to start a new story line and I thought I or someone else would figure that out along the way. Maybe it's from that REG guy, he, he, he.....