September 10, 2003


I'm in New Zealand, near a railroad line, when I decide to show Gimli how I can use magic to repair the railroad, which has been smashed at regular intervals of every few hundred feet. But then a great train of people, mostly elves but including many hobbits, marching on foot, finally reach Valinor. It's a series of very old but sturdy squarish buildings set into a grassy hillside, with stairs and halls leading to further places. Legolas is so happy to have reached it that he shatters his walking staff in his bare hands. Then weird tendrils come out of a nearby wall and wrap themselves around him, and pull him through the wall into the building that will obviously become his house, and while the tendrils are grabbing him his ears lose their pointiness.

[this sentence censored] Then Sam tells me the story of how a guy kept flirting with him, and how that's 'just not right' for a guy to do. Frodo jokingly says "I know that guy, and I could have fun proving he's really your uncle." Sam doesn't like the joke. Then there's a guy going 'round handing out maps showing everyone where they're going to live in Valinor, and how to get there. Finally I see everyone arrive again as if I'm watching it on TV, and a documentary voice calls the place "The Vulcan paradise of Eressea."

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