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Inferno
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Jan 8 2013, 5:41am
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Something I haven't done in a while: From the depths of my Hard Drive
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So between myself, Kyriel, and a few others from back in Ye Olde Days (also known as the First Age of tOR.N), we managed to salvage some of the threads we thought particularly worthwhile. I've got some humorous things, a number of old reading room discussions, and a bunch of song parodies all floating around in the depths of my hard drive. So I occasionally pull one of them out and share it again. I've been swamped with RL lately until a couple weeks ago so I haven't been around much to do this, and it seemed like it might be time. =)
So I give you: If LotR had been written by somebody else…
(thread initiated by Magrat)
One Ringy-Dingy", Lily Tomlin
"Fellowship of the Redhooded Sweatshirt", Adam Sandler
"One Ring, Two Ring, Red Ring, True Ring", Dr. Seuss
"The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Hobbits", Stephen Covey
"Moby Ring", Herman Melville
"A Tale of Three Hobbits", Charles Dickens
--Magrat
“MacBaggins” by William Shakespeare
--Eomund’s Daughter
Battlefield Middle-Earth-- L. Ron Hubbard.
Ring Wars -- George Lucas
Of Elves and Men -- John Steinbeck
A Shire Hobbit in King Elessar's Court -- Mark Twain
Nazgul in the Rye -- JD Salinger.
All I really need to know I learned in Rivendell -- Robert Fulghum
--Inferno
The Hobbit who came in from the Cold - John Le Carré
Interview with the Nazgul - Anne Rice
Frodo Baggins and the Ring of Sauron - J.K. Rowling
The Hobbiton Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
A la Recherche de la Bague Perdue - Marcel Proust (In Search of the Lost Ring)
Waiting for Gollum - Samuel Beckett
Lake Evendim Days - Garrison Keillor
--Eledhwen
Valley of the Rings - Jacqueline Susann
Mordor Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
East of Valinor - John Steinbeck
--Daisy Took
Breakfast of Ringwraiths -- Kurt Vonnegut
The Ringbearer's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
Watership Barrow Down -- Richard Adams
Death on the Anduin -- Agatha Christie
--Kyriel
The Once and Future Ring – T. H. White
WutheRing Heights, Emily Bronte
David CopperRing, Charles Dickens
A Ring for Emily, William Faulkner
The Decline and Fall of the Ring Empire, Edward Gibbon
Brothers Ringamazov, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
--RosieLass
Long Day’s Journey into Mordor – Eugene O’Neil
A Horse Named Shadowfax – Tennessee Williams
--dudalb
Samlet by William Shakespeare
"All Quiet on the Eastern Front" by Erich Maria Remarque
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Hobbit" by James Joyce
"Bagshot Row" by John Steinbeck
"The Beorn" by William Faulkner
"Invisible Hobbit" by Ralph Ellison
"Numenor Lost" by John Milton
"The Warg, The Witch-King, and the Jewelry Box" by C.S. Lewis
"Interview With a Barrow Wight" by Anne Rice
"The Inferno (of Orodruin)" by Dante
"Frodon't Look Now" by Daphne DuMaurier
"Buckleberry Ferry" by Mark Twain
--Beren11:11
Gone with the Ring – Margaret Mitchell
The Hunt for Rings of Power – Tom Clancy
All Quiet on the Ithilien Front – Erich Maria Remarque
--dudalb
"Tuesdays with Sauron", Mitch Albom
"On the Road", Jack Kerouac
"The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Wizards and Rings of Power by an Accidental RingBearer", Eric Raymond
--hollowTree
A Pelennor's Nights Dream, by Shakespeare
Much Ado about OneRing, by Shakespeare
--Ophelia
Real Men Don't Eat Lembas
The Accidental Ringbearer, by Anne Tyler
The Call of the Wraith, by Jack London
Midnight in the Garden of Manwe and Melkor, by John Berendt
--Kyriel
Ring – James Michener or Frank Herbert
--Mr. Kimi
A Ring's House - Henrik Ibsen
My Fair Elf Queen - ???
The Name of the Ring - Umberto Eco
The Nazgul of the Opera - ???
The Origin of Hobbits - Charles Darwin
King Ar-Pharazon - William Shakespeare
--Pteppic
Uncle Tom Bombadil’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Beorn Free" by Joy Adamson
"The Elfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins
"The Ascent of Manwe" by Jacob Bronowski
"Brave New Warg" by Aldous Huxley
--Kimi
Shelob Is A Harsh Misstress by Robert A. Heinlein
--Ron Austin
'The Ring Age' by Neal Stephenson (1,100 pages long and all the action takes place in the last 20 pages)
--burma
A Brief History of Middle-Earth (Stephen Hawking)
Frodo's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
The Wizard in White (Wilkie Collins)
The Lord of Small Rings (? Roy)
Delta of Anduin (Anais Nin)
Legolas (Vladimir Nabokov)
The Great Gamgee (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Elessar Rex (Sophocles)
Middle-Earth Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
Boromir and Gandalf are Dead (Tom Stoppard)
The Power of the One (Bryce Courtneay)
--Cat of Queen Berúthiel
Feel free to add to the list, if you like.
Inferno.
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Good night, tOR.Nados. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely delete you in the morning.
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Elcenia
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DanielLB
Elvenhome
Jan 8 2013, 5:51am
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The best, and most predictable, I can come up with is:
50 Shades of Gandalf - E.L James
And what about:
The Fellowship Vacancy - J.K Rowling
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Beren0nehanded
Nevrast
Jan 8 2013, 1:41pm
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Rolling on the floor laughing (ok, not literally), thanks!
Now for my sad attempt at Suzanne Collins' series . . .
The Fellowship Games -- Suzanne Collins
Catching Smeagol -- Suzanne Collins
MockingSauron -- Suzanne Collins
Don't be hasty.
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Ginger
Nargothrond
Jan 8 2013, 6:01pm
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When I read "Fellowship Vacancy" in your post
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The end fight with Boromir and Merry and Pippin popped into my mind. I guess because his spot is the vacant one.
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Rostron2
Mithlond
Jan 8 2013, 6:20pm
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"The Redbook" by Nicholas Sparks
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SirDennisC
Gondolin
Jan 8 2013, 6:40pm
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"A Day in the life of Bilbo Bagginsovich" - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Le Morte de Boromir" - Sir Thomas Malory
"On the Dimholt Road" - Jack Kerouac
"Fear and Loathing in Dol Guldur" - Hunter S. Thompson
"The Gray Pilgrim's Progress" - John Bunyan
"Keep the Athelas Flying" - George Orwell
(This post was edited by SirDennisC on Jan 8 2013, 6:42pm)
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Lissuin
Doriath
Jan 8 2013, 8:05pm
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Fiction:
The Beorn Identity, The Beorn Supremecy, The Beorn Ultimatum: a Trilogy- - Robert Ludlum
The Pillars of Middle-earth - - Ken Follett
A Tower Room with a View - - E.M. Forster
Hobbit, Run - - John Updike
Aule Shrugged - - Ayn Rand
Non-Fiction:
The Gold Delusion - - Richard Dawkins
The Audacity of Hobbits - - Barack Obama
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Lissuin
Doriath
Jan 8 2013, 11:31pm
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Bakshi, Rankin/Bass,...Bill Watterson(?)
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The Essential Calvin and Hobbits, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbits, The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbits: A Trilogy
Book I, Mordor Ho!
Book II, The Days Are Just Packed, Mr. Frodo
Book III, Homicidal Psycho Isengard Chap
Book IV, Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Smeagol Gollum, or Something Under the Web is Drooling
Book V, Weirdos from Another Realm
Book VI, Scientific Maia Goes "Boink"
And concerning The Hobbit:
Film I, It's a Magical World
Film II, Revenge of the Dragon-Sat
Film III, There's Treasure Everywhere
http://www.flickr.com/...16364/in/photostream -- Johnny Cool
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Aunt Dora Baggins
Elvenhome
Jan 8 2013, 11:49pm
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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"A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories
leleni at hotmail dot com
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Ruxendil_Thoorg
Dor-Lomin
Jan 9 2013, 5:27am
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Zen and the Art of Bunny-Sled Maintenance-Robert Pirsig
The Silmarils of Style- Strunk & White
Shelob's Web- E.B. White
The Gripe of Wraiths - John Steinbeck
Nazgula- Bram Stoker
Mordor on the Easterling Express- Agatha Christie
Tom Bombadil- Mark Twain
Aragorn- Christopher Paolini
Rings and Ringwraiths - Jane Austen
Jane Eye- Sauronlette Bronte
The Three Hunters- Alexander Dumas
Smeagol's Game- Orson Scott Card
AND
The Bridge Over Khazad-Dum- Pierre Boule
A bag is like a hole that you can carry with you.
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Rolfina
Ossiriand
Jan 9 2013, 9:51am
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just a quick one for The Hobbit
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Treasure Mountain - R.L. Stevenson
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Alassëa Eruvande
Doriath
Jan 9 2013, 2:53pm
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How about a few more?
Manflesh Park by Jane Austen
Much Ado About String...Or Nothing! by Shakespeare
The Adventures of Buckleberry Ferry, by Twain
The Last of the Line of Durin, by Cooper
The Masque of the Black Breath, by Poe
Wuthering Wights, by Brontë
I am SMAUG! I kill when I wish! I am strong, strong, STRONG!
My armor is like tenfold shields! My teeth like swords! My claws, spears!
The shock of my tail, a thunderbolt! My wings, a hurricane! And my breath, death!
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Oiotári
Dor-Lomin
Jan 9 2013, 5:24pm
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based on selections from my most recent Amazon orders:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Ringbearer Like Me by Robert Bonazzi
An Introduction to the Thermal Physics of Mt Doom by Daniel V. Schroeder
The Elvish Lembas Ringbearing Test by Tom Wolfe
..The land of long-forgotten name:
......no man may ever anchor near;
..No steering star his hope may aim,
......for nether Night its marches drear,
..And waters wide no sail may tame,
......with shores encircled dark and sheer.
..O! Haven where my heart would be!
......the waves beat upon thy bar
..For ever echo endlessly,
......when longing leads thy thought afar
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dernwyn
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Jan 10 2013, 2:50am
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Thank you for helping them "resurface" - there are indeed classics in here!
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
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ryouko
Menegroth
Jan 10 2013, 3:14am
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But reading these posts has given me a very bizarre image.
A comic book (or GN is you prefer) and shows Gollum wearing a green suit with question marks on it.
"The Riddler".
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zarabia
Dor-Lomin
Jan 10 2013, 7:45am
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All of these - old and new - are wonderful! Here are my humble submissions
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North Farthing and South Farthing, Elizabeth Gaskell
Baggins End, E.M. Forster
About a Hobbit, Nick Hornby
A Hobbit Hole of One's Own, Virginia Woolfe
"The question isn't where, Constable, but when." - Inspector Spacetime
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