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Best LoTR dream EVER
... so now I'm up after four hours of sleep because I was awakened by the phone, which turned out to be my co-artist on this freelance job. Of all the people not to realize that I wouldn't be up at eight a.m., you'd think an artist would know better. *g*
But it was almost worth it, because I was awakened in the middle of the best Lord of the Rings dream of all time, and I'm glad I didn't segue into another dream and forget about it.
There was some sort of complicated dream logic to explain this, which I don't remember the details of, but I think it included something along the lines of all of the Ring bearers having been killed, and the war was going really badly, and so, Gollum ended up in charge of the armies standing against Sauron.
And the sad/pathetic/hilarious thing is that he was trying to do a really good job! But, being Gollum, was doomed to fail because he was absolutely terrible at it! We hadn't even made it to the actual generaling, because the entire dream, at least up to the point when I woke up, dealt with the politics of holding together this loose coalition of different forces from different (mostly made up by my subconscious) parts of Middle Earth. And leaving aside whether Gollum would suck at actual military strategy (answer: probably yes), this was what he was really bad at. Gollum + diplomacy = really bad idea. Since they were independent groups of fighters rather than one unified army, he'd lose a battalion or twelve every time one of his generals would stomp off in a huff, which would basically happen every time he opened his mouth. Around the time that I woke up, he'd just managed to thoroughly insult the (female) leader of a bunch of guerrilla-style wilderness fighters that he really needed.
He had some sort of advisor that actually kinda knew what they were doing ... I don't remember who or what it was (Gandalf? the ghost of Aragorn? an Ent? I think it was more of a "what" than a "who"), but I vaguely remember that the entire process of "advising" Supreme General Gollum reduced down to telling him constantly "No, don't say that! Don't say ... oh shiiiit ..."
But it was almost worth it, because I was awakened in the middle of the best Lord of the Rings dream of all time, and I'm glad I didn't segue into another dream and forget about it.
There was some sort of complicated dream logic to explain this, which I don't remember the details of, but I think it included something along the lines of all of the Ring bearers having been killed, and the war was going really badly, and so, Gollum ended up in charge of the armies standing against Sauron.
And the sad/pathetic/hilarious thing is that he was trying to do a really good job! But, being Gollum, was doomed to fail because he was absolutely terrible at it! We hadn't even made it to the actual generaling, because the entire dream, at least up to the point when I woke up, dealt with the politics of holding together this loose coalition of different forces from different (mostly made up by my subconscious) parts of Middle Earth. And leaving aside whether Gollum would suck at actual military strategy (answer: probably yes), this was what he was really bad at. Gollum + diplomacy = really bad idea. Since they were independent groups of fighters rather than one unified army, he'd lose a battalion or twelve every time one of his generals would stomp off in a huff, which would basically happen every time he opened his mouth. Around the time that I woke up, he'd just managed to thoroughly insult the (female) leader of a bunch of guerrilla-style wilderness fighters that he really needed.
He had some sort of advisor that actually kinda knew what they were doing ... I don't remember who or what it was (Gandalf? the ghost of Aragorn? an Ent? I think it was more of a "what" than a "who"), but I vaguely remember that the entire process of "advising" Supreme General Gollum reduced down to telling him constantly "No, don't say that! Don't say ... oh shiiiit ..."