caitri | A funny Tolkien dream

I almost forgot last night's dream! I dreamed that we had a Tolkien Research Collection--which was not things that Tolkien wrote, or that were about Tolkien, but were instead the things he used to research Middle Earth. Primarily artifacts, all of which had purple outlines like epic items in WoW. Anyhow we had a researcher come visit and they looked at the materials, and then they started talking to us and we realized that what they were REALLY researching was the effects of proximity to magic artifacts, and what they REALLY REALLY wanted to know was if any of us were turning evil because we had some rings around. Well one thing we had to explain was that proper archival boxes really minimize the effect of Maia-engineered crafts, but that good librarians naturally could resist the urge to power. (Somehow we knew that Faramir became a librarian in Ithilien after the War.) However not as good librarians were more susceptible and then we had to be super careful how we worded things because of librarian politics.