The Orc movie

I bought some donuts to eat at school.

When I opened the box, one of them seemed to have been nibbled on by a mouse. Mary Mouse.

Right now, Mary is watching The Two Towers (which has Miranda Otto, one of my favorite actresses from Australia). … There are subtitles, because Aragorn and Legolas are speaking in Elvish to one another. … The Elves have just arrived to help to defend at Helm’s Deep. … Soon, I hope, the Ents will decide to lend a limb.

Mary knows all the behind-the-scenes lore. “That’s Peter Jackson,” she remarks of a scraggly-looking extra. She thinks it’s funny to see the Elves marching in rows: the actors were teen-aged boys, and it took an eternity for the directors to get them to behave.