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EIA #5:  The Old Forest

1. If you were Fatty Boldger, what would your thoughts be on being left behind?
* Hrmpf... That's the last time I play tig for a place on an adventure trip with those guys! I am certain Pippin cheated! (Eärendil The Mariner) ROFLMAO!
* "Yes, more pipeweed for me." (WhiteAslan)
* *crickets, er, chirp, squeak, something like that* (being a hobbit, i wouldn't be thinking about much of anything :) (Idaho)
* "Whew! That was close." (Mar)
* Hmm...should I short-sheet their beds before or after I let the goat loose in their rooms?" (RosieLass)
* "They’re finally gone! I’ve got Frodo’s swingin’ bachelor pad all to myself. Look out, hot hobbit honeys, Fatty Bolger’s on the prowl!" (Does Tom Cruise "Risky Business" dance.) (Darkstone)
* "Whew! Now I can bring out the keg of really *good* beer." (SunnyJim)
* "I wonder if there are any leftover mushrooms?" (Annael and Joelle and LOTR nutcase)
* Rave at Frodo's place!! (Aldebaran)
* "Okay, girls, you can come on out now!" (Varda's Songbird)
* Left behind? What? There were all here a minute ago. (Sowen)
* "Well I'm glad I don't have to go on any scary dangerous adventures, I'll just sit nice and cosy here at home. Hmmm, I wonder who that large menacing black figure is at the door..." (DAS)
* At last they've gone off in secret so the Nazgûl don't know. Now all I have to do is go back to Crickhollow, pretend I'm Frodo for a while and be the...um...bait. WAIT FOR ME! Moriel
* "*snicker* Wait'll they find out I swiped the One Ring for Bilbo's navel ring!" diedye
* "Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, guess I'll go eat worms....or maybe some bacon..." PinkOliphaunts
* Pantry raid!!! (Frodo Gardner) --I read this at first as ‘panty raid’ which seemed even funnier!

2. What did Merry think the trees could do?
* Going out on a limb here... he was certain he'd seen them sap dancing (on their tap roots, of course). When finished, they would take a bow and leave. (Frodo Gardner) ROFLMAO!
*Mambo, The macarena, the electric slide, the cha cha slide, Limbo, and other fun dances (JessLynn, Eärendil The Mariner, Annael)
* Try out for the Broadway revival of "Babes in Toyland". (Darkstone)
* "They say the trees do acrobatics late at night ... cartwheels, backflips, even some balance-branch walking ... " (luinfalathiel)
* Challenge all passers-by to a game of lightning strip poker. Loser has to perform the complete Beatles collection in semaphore before they're allowed to dress again. (RosieLass)
* 0-60 in 3 seconds; "Well,well! The trees *do* shift. That ash is clearly in 3rd gear!" (Eowyn of Penns Woods)
* Make sense out of his tax return. (Aldebaran)
* Put on disco boots and sing "I Will Survive" (Varda's Songbird)
* They could "put their left branch in, put their left branch out, put their left branch in and shake it all about." The Hokey Pokey (TTT Ultimate Fan and ringers rock!)
* Nothing. You can't teach an old tree new tricks. (Shadowen)
* Squirrel juggling and hobbit tossing. (DAS; diedye)
* Riverdance (Anamírë)
* He thought they could do the rumba, which is why he led the Hobbits to the dance field/clearing in the hopes of catching the trees in action! (Moriel)

3. Why did Frodo object to setting the willow-tree that had Merry and Pippin on fire? (what was Frodo’s reaction when it didn’t work?)
* Frodo didn’t want Pippin to burn. Specifically he didn’t want his favourite pair of Spiderman undies (that Pippin had borrowed) to burn. Spiderman undies were so hard to find in Middle Earth – especially in his size. When it didn’t work, Frodo breathed a sigh of relief. He always had his ‘Haldir lives’ g-string as an extra spare but nothing beats Spiderman. (Sowen) ROFLMAO!!
* Unbeknownst to Merry and Pippin, that particular willow-tree held Frodo's secret stash of PlayElfs and pipeweed...he reluctantly agreed to set fire to it, but was elated when it didn't work (LOTR_nutcase)
* I haven’t the first spark of an idea for this one. Ash me another one. But for Frodo's reaction when it failed, I think it was, "You're barking up the wrong tree, Sam." (Frodo Gardner)
* He didn't want to blow up! He knew that Pippen had snuck some of Gandalf's fireworks into his sack. When it didn't work...being a smartalek, he said I told you so. (Joelle)
* Hungry as he was he didn't want to be a cannibal this early in the journey. And when his other plan backfired (no pun intended) he tried wishing upon a star (JessLynn)
* Frodo: No!!! We'll need that BIC lighter later! (after: Oh, well. Back to tickling the roots...) (Eärendil The Mariner)
* Because the last thing he wanted to smell was toasted hobbit hair. (WhiteAslan)
* Because the hole in the tree lead to Alice's Wonderland. **bonus** "Oh no! I'll be late! I'll be late! To a very important date!"** (ringers rock!)
* Hobbits are meant to be toasted from the inside out! (and when it didn't work) "Way to go, Mushroom-Brain!" (luinfalathiel)
* Hadn't things been going bad enough *without* starting a forest-fire? (bonus) Relief - he didn't have to call Smokey the Bear, and that bear was always so uppity. (SunnyJim and similar from Shadowen and Estella Brandybuck)
* Why, when they could make it into perfectly good paper? (Shadowfaxrules)
* Sudden vision of "Hobbit Tandoori" (Annael)
* Because Merry and Pippin had been eating beans all day and Frodo was afraid of the gas explosion. Of course, he was relieved that it failed, but on the other hand, it would have made a great signal flare... (RosieLass)
* "Stop Sam! You forgot the onions and barbecue sauce! That's the only way to cook a brace of hobbits." And when it didn't work- "Oh well, not much meat on them anyway." (DAS)
* Burnt hobbit smells yucky (and for bonus: He started looking for some dynamite) (Marigold Gamgee)
* Frodo objected because of his long environmental activism in protecting the Old-growth Forest from logging. Once he realized that setting fire to the tree had not worked, Frodo unchained himself from Willow-man and climbed down from his tree-sitting perch, at which point he was arrested for trespassing by the FBI (Fornost Bureau of Investigations). (Moriel)

4. Creat your own lyrics:
* Hey dol! merry dol! Take the blobs To the firing squad!
Ring a dong! hop along my blobbies!
Tom Bom, jolly Tom Blob Blobadilo! (Estella Brandybuck) ROFLMAO!

* Hey dol! merry dol! _my hat with the feather_
Ring a dong! hop along _in my boots of yellow leather_
Tom Bom, jolly Tom _- it doesn't go together!_ (Eärendil The Mariner)

* Hey doldol! merry doldol! ringers rocks is on a roll!
Ring a dong! hop along she'll be happy to get you a pipeweed *insert paraphernalia item*
Tom Bom, jolly Tom says,"come on guys, come on!" (ringers rock!)
(had to keep it tame family board)

* ..boy my rhymes are silly
..with my suits so frilly
..off to find my filly (Mar)

* Hey dol! merry dol! Tom skips and jumps.
Ring a dong! hop along! Tom loves to press wild flowers.
Tom Bom, jolly Tom dresses in River Daughter’s clothing.
Ring a dong dillo! And hangs around in bars.
I’m Tom Bombadil, and I’m okay.
I sleep all night and sing all day. (Darkstone)

* Hey dol! merry dol! If you want to find romance,
Ring a dong! hop along and do a little dance
Tom Bom, jolly Tom And then take off your pants! (SunnyJim)

* Hey dol! merry dol! Yellow boots and jacket blue
Ring a dong! hop along But who would guess, including you
Tom Bom, jolly Tom Is wearing Spidey under-roos! (Annael)

* Hey dol! merry dol! Catch an armadillo.
Ring a dong! hop along! Put him in the middle.
Tom Bom, jolly Tom, smack him with a pillow. (RosieLass)

* Hey dol! merry dol! I'm irrelevant.
Ring a dong! hop along, I dress like a vagrant.
Tom Bom, jolly Tom must have a mental ailment. (Aldebaran)

* Hey dol! merry dol! Dirty dish-a-dillo!
Ring a dong! hop along Don't clean it with a willow!
Tom Bom, jolly Tom Always uses Brillo.
(Crazy Tom.. you had to know he was selling something). (Aydria Elenlinn)

* Hey dol! merry dol!
Take the Orli posters off that wall!
Ring a dong! hop along
They've been there for far too long!
Tom Bom, jolly Tom
Put up more that are of Dom! (Marigold Gamgee)

* Hey dol! merry dol! can take on a full-grown troll
Ring a dong! hop along! even with no mithril on
Tom Bom, jolly Tom! that's our good old buddy Dom! (glorfin2)

* Hey dol! merry dol! hobbits in the sun are lying
Ring a dong! hop along with fangirls always spying
Tom Bom, jolly Tom from the mob is flying! (Anamírë)

5. How did Tom convince Old Man Willow to release the hobbits?
* By singing "I'm Henry the Eighth I Am" over and over, Bombadil-style, until OMW agreed to give them up (Varda's Songbird) ROFLMAO!!
* Old Man Willow didn't need no convincing! Pippin had had too many mushrooms, again. (Joelle)
* He told him he'd do his own nude rendition of The Silmarillion, however Old Man Willow later regreted it far too many high kicks (JessLynn and similar from WhiteAslan)
* He showed him some pictures of young cherry trees, with very little bark on... (Eärendil The Mariner)
* He didn't, Old Man Willow got a bad taste in his mouth and spit them out. (ringers rock!)
* Whispered sweet nothin's in his ear (Mar)
* He made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. (Darkstone)
* "You let them out, or I'll make you into a wicker patio set!" (luinfalathiel)
* Blackmail. He had photos of Old Man Willow out on a date with Sauron, and Willow was wearing the dress, if you get my meaning. (SunnyJim)
* When tickling didn't do the trick, he resorted to the dreaded "tree noogie." (Annael)
* Tom distracted OMW by telling him that those hot little birches from the next clearing were giving him the eye, then made a run for it when OMW turned to look (RosieLass)
* Promised to set him up with that young fern he's been after. (Aldebaran)
* Tom said 'What did you expect the Spanish Inquisition?' Then three red cardinals appeared out of nowhere and threatened Old Man Willow with... *dramatic music* the comfy chair. (Sowen)
* He started singing his version of "The Song that Never Ends" (Marigold Gamgee)
* He employed the numbing Vulcan Grip learned from an old maiar named Nimoy. (Frodo Gardner)
* In exchange for releasing the Hobbits, Tom offered Old Man Willow 80% of Toms royalties from the movie. Tom has no need for money, but he does have a sense of humor and he enjoys preying on Willow-mans gullibility (Moriel)
* He threatened to give him a Carrot-Top makeover… ? (diedye)
* Sam had connections with a Miracle Grow dealer, and he promised to get him a sweet bargain. (PinkOliphaunts)