[The Silmarillion] Romimus

In the end, the rehearsal went on as scheduled. Only Ilfarin was replaced because of physical discomfort. The new male lead was not as handsome as him, and his singing, dancing and acting skills were also far inferior to him, but at least he would not confront him. Romimos speaks so loudly that no one else will.

Until the day of the official performance, Romimos still went her own way. Fortunately, even though her consciousness has long been separated from her body, all her actions and lines on the stage are still perfect, and there will never be a single mistake.

But some people in the audience must have noticed her absent-mindedness. Although these people are not professional drama critics, most of the people who can come to watch the drama with Falazon are princes and nobles who have been pampered since childhood, and all kinds of classic and elegant performances The repertoire has grown from a young age, and it is impossible to completely fail to see the difference between this performance and the usual one.

That said, no one would be unwise to point it out on the spot, at least not when Farathon was watching with gusto.Obviously, this is not a simple relaxation activity for the monarch and his subjects to enjoy together. It is not the most important thing whether Romi Moss plays well or not, and no one really expects her to contribute a wonderful performance. .This is not so much a performance, it is more like a proud mockery and sarcasm - the witch who once made the Numenorians hate her teeth has finally become a plaything for the Golden Emperor.

If things can end smoothly like this, then everyone should be happy.

It's a pity that the first minute of the show's perfect curtain call is always the most prone to various mistakes.

Speaking of the accident, Romemos admitted that he was indeed responsible.According to Naquili's script, in the last rival scene between "Falazon" and "Myriel", that is, the scene where the queen welcomes the king's return from victory, the two had a kiss at the end.

As expected, Romemos rejected the arrangement without saying a word, and asked Naquili to delete this paragraph, but Naquili felt that she was unreasonable, and the two stalemate for a long time , until Ocanom came to meet Sini, the kiss was changed from lips to forehead, and when Ocanom repeatedly assured Romemos that he would never kiss for real just for pretending, Romemo Stuart finally backed down.

However, even if Romemos reluctantly agreed, she still omitted this paragraph without authorization in all the rehearsals, and because she tossed the male lead to half his life in the first rehearsal, no one dared to mention this.

This led to the official performance. When Romemos sang her last words and was about to turn around and leave the stage, "Falazon" in front of her suddenly stepped forward and bent down to kiss her. The subconscious first reaction of You Tianwai's Romimos was to take a big step back and dodge. What's worse, she even raised her hand, and almost slapped her across the face directly.

At that moment, the air in the whole theater seemed to be stagnant, and the faces of the actors on the stage and all the people of the Arlando Opera House in the background became terrified and pale. Think about what a terrible stage accident this is—” The "Queen" slapped the "King" in public on the stage. Even though everyone knows that the stage is just acting, no one dares to bet that Farathon is a person who will allow others to violate his authority, even if he is played by an actor. What's more, this "queen" is Romemus, who everyone knows is not completely obedient to Farazon, who dares to say that she is not criticizing Sang Huai?

Fortunately, before the slap hit the opponent's face, Romemos recalled it in time, and the raised hand only paused in the air for less than half a second, and then gently stroked the opponent's left cheek.

"What a great victory, I am really happy for you, Your Majesty." Romimos said nonsense that no one would believe without blinking, but at this time she looked more sincere than ever before, and then She kissed the poor boy on the right cheek and calmly retreated behind the curtain.

"What have you done?!" As soon as Romemos walked off the stage, Naquili immediately walked towards her. Her tone was not so much angry at Romemos, but more like knowing that a disaster was coming. Self-pitying, "10 minutes, only 10 minutes in total! You still screwed up! I shouldn't have been fooled by your confident appearance..."

"I'm sorry." Romimos hesitated, and apologized first, "I did accidentally make a mistake, but I have tried my best to make it up..."

"Yeah, your slap didn't go straight down and ruined the whole scene, but do you think the people in the audience are all blind and can't see what you're trying to do?" Vespa walked over from the side with a sharp tone He blamed Romemos, "To put it bluntly, this is just a performance error; if someone wants to trouble you, saying that this is slandering the relationship between the emperor and empress, deliberately provoking the majesty of the monarch, and treason, it is not too much to take it seriously!"

Romemos was a little dazed by the long list of accusations thrown at her all at once.

"Oh, it's not that serious..." Ocanom rushed over to comfort Romimos, but he also sighed and his expression was not very good.

"As far as we say, it doesn't count. This matter can be big or small. In the end, it depends on what your majesty thinks." Even so, Naquili is still not optimistic, and Farazon is not such a magnanimous monarch.

"That's right, Miss Romimos has a beautiful face, and His Majesty may not bear to punish her severely. I'm afraid that the rest of us will take the blame for her." Vesper gritted his teeth and turned away angrily. "I knew right away when I saw her that she was a disaster."

Okanom and Naquili looked at each other, and finally left with a sigh.

Romemos stood where he was, blinked, and wanted to laugh.

How big of a deal is it, so that everyone looks like a concubine?Not to mention that she didn't continue to slap her in the end, not to mention that she pretended to slap Farasong himself, even if her slap fell on Farasong's face, so what?If Farazon really had the guts to trouble her, she would wish for it.

In short, Romemos didn't take this little accident seriously at all, and he was very sure that Farathon would not really do anything to her, at most it was some harsh verbal lessons.

Romemos guessed half right.

In the evening of that day, Romemus met an unexpected person.

"You came here?" Romimos shrugged, "It seems that you have been doing well in front of Falazon recently."

But Sauron's expression was serious, and he didn't look very happy.

"What was the result?" asked Romemos.

"Your Majesty thinks that 'this performance is out of standard, and all personnel in the Alando Royal Opera House will be fined three months' salary, which will be executed within half a year. This rehearsal will be rehearsed until "Like Letalie" will be performed again on Midsummer Day.'"

Romemos sneered: "I said earlier that he won't have any new tricks."

"Also, the regular tour this spring has also been cancelled." Soren said again.

Romemos froze for a moment: "What tour?"

As Eucanom once told Romemos, from a certain period, the opera house of Arlandor was closed to the common people until Tar-Palantir came to the throne and tried to reverse Numenor. In the end, it turned out that his efforts had little effect, but it did bring about some changes. Although the Alando Royal Opera House is still closed to civilians, it is open every year. After the three most important festivals, that is, Ruqiermei in the beginning of spring, Yirulai Talie in midsummer, and Ruhantalie in late autumn, they will go to different regions of the Númenor continent for tours. At this time, civilians can Choose to buy a ticket to watch its performance.

"You didn't bother to find out any news at all, did you?" Sauron asked blankly, "Even these things that happened under your nose, you don't know anything about it? Let me guess how long it took. What have you been doing all the time, have you really fallen in love with singing and dancing?"

Romemos subconsciously wanted to defend, but this time it was indeed her fault, she opened her mouth, but finally said nothing.

"I don't know what you're thinking about all day long," Sauron said. "Do you really want to avenge the Númenoreans, or are you just talking about your ambition?"

Romimos bowed his head and remained silent, like a child who has been punished by his parents for doing something wrong.

"I have always thought that you are a smart person, calm, forbearing, and able to judge the situation. For a long time, you have been the most reassuring thing for me." Sauron opened his mouth and started talking nonsense, "But if you continue to be out of shape like this , I have to reconsider the value of our cooperation."

"Sorry, I promise it's only this time." Romimos whispered.

"You'd better, because there is no next time." Sauron was not very angry, "According to the practice of previous years, the Alando Royal Opera House will usually go to Harnusta for a tour after the beginning of spring, and this opportunity has been lost. After midsummer, it's Andusta, and I don't need to stress that you should know what a tough nut to crack."

"I will try my best to inquire about all the news about Prince Anduini's residence, and put in an eyeliner when I have the opportunity." Romimos said sincerely, "I will never make any mistakes again, and I swear by my loyalty to Lord Melkor."

Sauron just snorted noncommittally.

When Romimos appeared in front of everyone again, everyone was quiet for a moment, but the next moment, the place became more lively, and everyone chattered and chatted with the people around him. It didn't stop, as if they were all busy, and no one gave Romimos a second look.

She is definitely a beauty, but it is a pity that this beauty is neither easy to get along with nor provoke, so she can only pretend to be blind and pretend that the other party does not exist, so as to secretly pray that bad luck will not fall on her.

Romimos stood there silently for two seconds, and then walked nonchalantly towards Chief Ocanom not far away. Anyone could find an excuse to avoid her, except Ocanom.

Okanomu probably knew that he couldn't avoid it, so he could only turn to her: "Miss Romemos, good morning."

"Good morning, Mr. Okanom." Luo Mimo paused, "As for the mistakes in the performance, I am indeed responsible for most of this, and I will pay everyone's fined wages."

"Hey, money is not a problem, you don't have to worry about it, Naquili has already taken care of it." Okanomo waved his hand, "Actually, you didn't mean to screw up the show, it's the first show, be nervous Mistakes are inevitable, and you don’t need to blame yourself too much.”

Apart from talking about it, where else can you tell that this person is blaming himself?Vespa slandered secretly.

"I want to know, how is Mr. Ilfarin doing now?" Romemos asked, "If his body recovers, shouldn't it be time for him to return?"

Okanomu's complexion changed, and he said hesitatingly: "Ilfarin...it's better, but it may not be back to the best condition, Miss Romemos, if you think you can get along with him It's not enough, it's not impossible if the male lead is not replaced..."

"No, you misunderstood." Romemos shook his head. "I mean, I'm very sorry for what happened before. Sincerely, if Mr. Ilfarin is willing to return, then I couldn't be happier."

Romemos thought that after what happened last time, Ilfarin would definitely shirk and resist her in every possible way, and he would take a detour if he saw her in the future. He never expected that Okanomu told him that Romemo After Si's request, the other party readily agreed, and even heard Okanom say that even without Romemos' apology and recovery, Ilfarin originally planned to do so.

This statement should be true, because after Ilfarin finally recovered from his serious illness and finally returned, this guy's attitude when he played against Romimos did not soften or change at all.

"There is no progress at all." After Romemos repeated the same aria No.12 times, the other party remained indifferent. "Have a half-hour break and try again later."

Very well, Romimos thought he was trying to make things difficult for her before, but looking at it now, it can only be said that this person was born with such a ignorant dead look.

It doesn’t really matter to Romemos, don’t sing it twelve times, she will sing here for twelve days and twelve nights without any discomfort other than boring, but Okano who is watching from the audience Mu and Naquili looked more nervous than the other, as if they would tense up at any moment and planned to rush up and knock Romemos out before Ilfarin completely annoyed him.

Romemos swears that she suddenly felt a prank just because the two of them looked so funny, and it was definitely not intentional.

"Do it again?" Romemos deliberately lowered his voice, and spit out the sentence in a soft, slow but seemingly malicious tone, "Are you sure?"

Unsurprisingly, the various expressions of panic shown by the audience around her greatly pleased her to a great extent.

"I'm sure." Only Ilfarin didn't frown, "What's the problem? You want to get away with singing like this?"

……cut.

"If you like wasting time so much, then of course there is no problem." Romimos curled his lips, "Otherwise, why don't you make it clear, what is it about me that doesn't satisfy you?"

"Actually, I've said it more than three times, and it seems that you haven't listened to it even once." Ilfarin confronted tit-for-tat without giving in, "We are constructing art, not counting or building a house, here There is no standard answer, only whether it feels right or wrong. And even an amateur can feel that your performance is completely wrong, and you haven't invested in it at all, as always..."

Romemus cut him off with a sleepy yawn before he could finish. "Cliché, mystification," she muttered. "Why can't you say something that isn't bullshit?"

"Because otherwise you are perfect," said Ilfarin, evidently even he had to admit it, "your looks, your voice, your posture and figure, your brains and gifts, you The only difference between being the best actress that ever lived in Númenor is that you loathe turning yourself into someone else."

"That would be an overstatement. I don't mind acting if I have to, and I'll tell you I've got quite a bit of experience playing vases," said Romemus. "I don't think that's the problem. .”

"Oh?"

"The problem is that the role of queen is not suitable for me." Romimos spread his hands, "You see, according to the script, Queen Miriel should be a beautiful, elegant, kind-hearted, and deeply in love with me. The setting of the king, as for me, is neither gentle nor dignified, not to mention the love for Farathon, it is too difficult for me to substitute myself into it, right?"

"Why do you think actors can stand on the stage?" Ilfarin asked back, a little displeased, "According to what you said, all actors in this world can only play one kind of person, that is themselves."

"You are too extreme. Of course, excellent actors can control many different styles, but no matter how good a person is, it is difficult to guarantee that they can play all types of roles perfectly, right? No matter how much you rely on makeup, if you insist on acting, it is completely unsuitable for you. Is it true that all the characters in this role can only do twice the result with half the effort? For example, for a person like me who has done all kinds of bad things and is sinister, no matter how hard he tries to imitate the kindness and kindness of Her Royal Highness, he can only be a picture of a tiger instead of an anti-dog."

If this word reaches the ears of the elves and Sauron, they will probably laugh their teeth out. Almost everyone in Middle-earth knows that the Twilight Lord dare not say anything else, but pretending to be innocent is a must.

However, those "brilliant feats" are too old by human standards. There are very few Númenoreans who really know Romimos. In the eyes of most people, her image is really like her. That's what it said - it's just a demon with a beautiful outer skin, no matter how hard it tries to hide its fox tail, the inside is black.

So when Romimos said this now, people including Okanom and Naquili really hesitated.

In other words, can someone like Romimos really play the holy and dignified role of the queen well?Taking a step back, if her performance is so perfect that even Ilfarin can't pick a thorn, is it necessarily a good thing for the opera house?What does this mean, the queen and the notorious witch are actually the same thing, similar with minor differences?What if the queen is dissatisfied with this?In the worst case, it would be fine if His Majesty the King didn't think deeply about it, but what if someone intentionally caused trouble for the opera house and slandered that they were deliberately satirizing and discrediting the royal family?

"It's His Majesty's order," Okanomu said with difficulty, "You must act in the play."

"But it didn't say that it must be the queen, right?"

"That's true, but except for the queen, the other female characters in the script are very marginal characters who don't show their faces. If your majesty thinks this is perfunctory for him, the consequences will be more serious than if you screwed up. Ten times." Okanomu shook his head, looked at Naquili, and asked tentatively, "Naquili, otherwise, take a look, can you add another female character with some weight?"

Naquili's complexion is very reluctant. After all, this is a scene about going to war. How can there be so many women in the scene?

"I don't think it's necessary to be so troublesome." Romemos said suddenly, "Falazon didn't stipulate that I must play a female role, did he?"

The rest looked at her in surprise.

"But you are a woman." Naquili said, and then confirmed it unconfidently after finishing speaking, "Are you?"

"Strictly speaking? Then I am neither a woman nor a man. My current appearance and sexual characteristics are indeed female, but if necessary, this can be changed, it is very easy." Romimos looked relaxed, completely ignoring The faces of the others were brilliant.

"Then who do you want to play?" Finally, Ilfarin spoke first, and he seemed to be the only one who was interested in it.

"Well, if you all think it's okay, and the original actor doesn't object..." Romimos pretended to be modest, "How about I play Sauron?"