The story takes place before the Lord of the Rings story. It's about how Strider is searching for Gollum. The books (at least the original trilogy) make a passing reference about searching for Gollum after the Hobbit ends and before the Lord of the Rings begins. This fleshes out that story.

No worries - off to the food court for some dinner. What - almost every single place is closed. I guess it is the end of summer and what student wants to be working at a fast food restaurant right before school starts back up, right? There were a few places open, so we grabbed some grub and had a little conversation with our dinner in the food court.

It wasn't 7:15 yet so we headed over to the bookstore to do some shopping. Oooh - it's closed too. Go figure. Well, if you can believe it, I haven't actually seen the new library or science buildings since they were renovated years and years ago (a decade maybe?)

I must say - the library is not the place i remember. It's big, it's beautiful, it's comfortable, it's quiet. It's the kind of place i would have actually gone to study had i still been at school. I remember the library as dim, cold, noisy, and "cold".. hard ... anyway - not very comfortable or inviting at all. Maybe that's why i didn't go there very often. :)

After a stroll through the library, we headed off to the science building. It was weird wandering campus - it was virtually a ghost town. Rather nice, actually. The science building looked the same - except for the back where they'd updated the planetarium. Ooh - that reminds me - planetarium.byu.edu - check it out. They have great events going on, including an astrophotography course next month.

Back to the bowling. They finally opened. We got a lane and setup for 3 games. ... I must say, my arm is SORE ... and my scores weren't nearly as high as in Wii bowling! Guess i need more practice. I'll blame it on the shoes.