*Disclaimer: I do not own Legolas nor Aragorn, nor Arwen or any other character in this story*

I keep finding these old fanfictions i did a long time ago… this one was for a Geography project on a country of my choice… I chose Japan… The Windling in the story was supposed to be my geography teacher… because his was Mr. Windling… And also, I know this story isn’t very good, but I love reviews! Reviews are the best thing in the whole wide world… (Not really)

Now for the story….:

Hi. I’m Merenwen_Silvan and I’m on a mission. I will be visiting Japan with Legolas and Aragorn (from Lord of the Rings). The mission is to find Legolas and Aragorn a job before they have to return to my basement (for more information, ask Sara). The mission will be in four towns of Japan: Tokyo, Suppro, Kyoto, and Osaka.

Our first place to stop was Tokyo. I tried to tell Legolas that all I had to do to find out how many people lived there was to get on the Internet. But no, he said, “It would be misleading.” So we had to follow him while he counted them, all 28 million of the people. That was ever so tiring.

The next day I convinced Aragorn that working in a shopping and entertainment center such as the Ginza was a good place to work. The only problem was that he thought the orcs in the video game were real, so he killed the game with his sword.

After being thrown out of the Ginza, we decided to get a break by going on a cruise ride on the Sumida River. On the cruise, Legolas kept looking in the water and acting nervous. So I told him there was nothing to worry about. But did he listen? Oh no! He said that we shouldn’t be here and it’s not safe. About that time, a giant fish jumped onto the boat, and I don’t wish to say what popped out of the fish’s mouth, but it was a large man-like creature with hairy arms, grayish hair on its head, with broken glasses. It was making sounds and kept saying “Windling. Windling. Do you have your handbook, my Precious?” So we decided to call it a Windling.

After Legolas and Aragorn threw the fish and the Windling back into the water, I decided that they could be fishermen. Since fish is the main source in Tokyo and Japan. So we went to see the person in charge of hiring fishermen. It wasn’t a pretty site in there, and Legolas said it stank very bad. So bad that he said, he would rather live in a shoe. So guess what…. Legolas and Aragorn didn’t become fishermen. Next we decided to search for some other resource. Unfortunately, they didn’t have any other resource.

Next I decided that we should check on the economy, and they agreed. I took them to check out the factories, knowing that industry is pretty important to the economy. We didn’t stay long because the manager for one of the factories was the windling! Last but not least, we visited the Korakuen. It is a seventeenth century landscape garden. You don’t want to know why we didn’t stay.

Our next stop was Kyoto. At the beginning of this stop, Legolas and I had a little contest to see which of the two of us could do the more accurate population count. Aragorn already knew the correct answer. He also said, in the end, it was entertaining. At the end of the day, Aragorn surveyed which took longer and which is the correct answer. Guess what! The internet count wins. It said 1,461,140. Legolas counted 1,461,141 which was wrong.

Next day we went to the Nijo Castle. It was the former palace of the shoguns. It has lovely parks and gardens too. Next we went to the Kyoto Municipal Museum of art. There was the one picture that looked like Arwen and well, he tried to buy it after me telling he can’t buy it. Now he goes nuts, picks it up begging the manager for it, and you know the end of that day, we were thrown out.

The next day we decided to see if their resources could help us anyway at all. Well we were almost correct because Kyoto doesn’t exactly have a main resource except for silk worms. Aragorn and Legolas weren’t exactly thrilled, but after a bit of more convincing said they’ll try it. After one hour we were once again thrown out thanks to the Windling. It popped out of nowhere and started eating the worms. Before we could catch the little creature he escaped and in popped our boss.

We next tried to get a job in a factory, because industry is the main economy. We even learned how to make porcelain dolls, but guess who came along! The Windling. It came through and started breaking all the dolls. If you haven’t guessed yet, you should have: again we were fired.

I was about to give up on Kyoto when I remembered that I needed to check out Tamaba Mountains, one of the highest mountains.

After Kyoto we visited Osaka. Legolas gave up and just let me look up the population. They had 2623801 many people. In Osaka we visited one of their puppet theaters. Legolas and Aragorn enjoyed it, except when the windling kidded one of the puppets. Yep, we were thrown out too.

Next we visited Temmangu, a Shinto shrine. It was founded in 949. While we were there Legolas and Aragorn decided to hunt for the windling. They found it having a picnic with a monkey. We decided to leave.

We found out that Osaka doesn’t have any real resource except for iron and steel.

In Osaka they manufacture electrical machinery, iron, and steel metals, textiles, chemicals, food processing, and printing. We decided just to leave.

Next we went swimming in the Yodo River. It was most refreshing until the Windling came back. He jumped on my back, and kept saying “Where’s your handbook, my precious.” Finally, Aragorn and Legolas got him off my back. They decided to tie up the Windling and leave it somewhere.

The last place we went to was Kobe. I decided to let Legolas do the population count for this city. He said there were 1,477,410 people there.

In Kobe, we checked out the Hyogo. It’s an ancient port that prominent during the Ashikaga period. The Ashikaga period was the 14th to 16th centuries. It was reopened to foreign trade in 1868. Legolas and Aragorn thought it was boring.

Next we visited the railway hub. I think Legolas and Aragorn got dizzy, and to my surprise, Aragorn decided to work there. Nobody could make him change his mind. So then the fellowship was just Legolas and me.

Next we checked out the economy. Its main economic activity is manufacturing. We found out that their main products are ship building yards, vehicles, iron and steel, sugar refineries, chemicals, rubber, and food processing plants.

Kobe’s resource is probably fish. Which reminded Legolas of a poem. It goes like this:

Alive without a breath,
Cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking.

Cool, isn’t it.

Next we went to the Osaka Bay. It’s one of the leading Japanese ports. It is also a major industrial center. Legolas decided he wanted to return to the basement. Then all of a sudden, I woke up. My whole trip to Japan with Legolas and Aragorn was a dream, except for the part about the Windling.