What a crack-up! Thanks for this one ALison.
A note from Tenar re leguin books
"HI
Thought I'd let you know that I went ahead and ordered the
two Le Guins
through amazon.com. Total price was $54 including $16
postage. Galaxy are a
bloody rip off!!!!"
So I'll get to read them after all.
Josie
Alison Croggon wrote:
>
> Further to the discussion about le Guin and others a while back,
> here's a site for those who haven't time to read all those SFF books
> and would like to catch up. Why, _everybody's_ there -
> http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/sff.shtml
>
> The Fellowship of the Ring
>
> By J. R. R. Tolkien
>
> Ultra-Condensed by David J. Parker and Samuel Stoddard
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Gandalf
>
> Bilbo Baggins, your Ring is evil. In a couple decades, we'll try to
> destroy it. In the meantime, leave it for Frodo to play with.
> Bilbo Baggins
>
> It's not evil. It's mine. My precious. Mine! MINE, I TELL YOU!!
> MOOHOOHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
> (Frodo takes it to RIVENDELL. Some FRIENDS come with him. They are
> attacked by black riders a LOT, and it is SCARY.)
>
> Elrond
>
> Frodo Baggins, if Sauron ever gets this Ring, the world will be
> destroyed, and evil will reign forever. We must act quickly. Take the
> Ring to where he lives.
> (They do some travelling. Some more FRIENDS come with him. Gandalf
> DIES in the mines of Moria, but will later be RESURRECTED in
> GLORIFIED form having triumphed over EVIL, an obvious literary
> ALLUSION to that movie where the guy comes back as a DOG.)
>
> Boromir
>
> Frodo Baggins, give me the Ring.
> Frodo
>
> No.
> Boromir
>
> What have I done? (dies)
>
> THE END
>
> --
>
> Alison Croggon
>
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