rubyfruitjumble:

idk if I’ve told this story before but when I was like 9 years old at summer camp I had a counselor who would tell us these amazing original stories before bedtime, with elves and dragons and wizards and everything. Then like 5 years later we all realized that she had just been telling us the lord of the rings from memory

i did this to some kids at school at lunchtime once. they asked me to tell ‘foreign scary stories’ and my mind went blank so i told them a dramatic version of the setup for the slenderman game and the first half of paranormal activity