Naivety Is Too Precious

(My family is  together watching Lord of the Rings from the very beginning.)

Mom: “What are these? Dwarves?”

(My family tends to troll my mother.)

Brother: “Yes.”

Dad: “Yeah, it’s the chief dwarf’s wedding.”

Me: *taking pity* “No, they’re hobbits. It’s that Bilbo’s birthday, and also Frodo’s.”

Mom: “I wonder where they found these actors.”

Brother: “Oh, they’re in New Zealand. They have this whole village of midgets.”

Dad: “Yeah. It’s an actual village they recruited.”

Me: “But they don’t like being called midgets. The tallest person in that village is 4’10”.”

Mom: “Really?”

Us: “Yes.”

(We kept going until my brother and I started cracking up- and even then she was still unsure if we were joking or not.)