Good one, Fingolfin.
::clapping::
You’ve helped to make it chic to be a geek.
Hmm…I wonder if my really awful Fight Club one was one of the two…
does this mean i should read the thread now?
Pack a lunch!
In other news, the thread in question was also Metafiltered today.
Is there a translation anywhere of the Swedish article?
I had to stop reading the WITLOTRWWBSE thread because I couldn’t keep up. I was keeping my eye on it for awhile, but I can’t even make a dent in it anymore.
278,000 and climbing.
At this point, I’m almost ashamed that mine is on there, it sucks so badly compared to the rest of them…
Lazy ass translation of the article. Love me forever 'kay?
It was on the front page of the culture section in the printed paper too.
How would Lord of the Rings have turned out if Mark Twain or Mickey Spillane had written it?
“As it looks right now, writing a review of The Two Towers is about as relevant as writing a 400 page long user manual for soap”. This is how the brittish columnest Keven Brown recently began an amusing editorial at the site megastar.co.uk.
It is undeniable that the newspapers have already dissected the second part of the LOTR trilogy, down to it’s component parts, from Lelogas featherweight steps to whether or not the Oscar jury will award the computer animated psycho Gollum (“imagine Shrek with bulemia”, to cite Brown once again) with a statue at their next ceremony.
However, while the papers tend to focus on the ridiculously expensive special effects and celebrity gossip, many of the internets discussions focus around Tolkiens actual tales. One of the funniest LOTR-threads (from the english “topic thread”, internet lingo for a discussion around a specific topic) of the past few months can be found at the website The Straight Dope and is about how the story would have looked if it had been written by some other author than Tolkien.
The hobby writers on the world web borrow their favourite authors characters and change both the style and theme to make the tale sound as if it were written by Ernest Hemingway, Ayn Rand, Douglas Adams, Mark Twain, Ray Bradbury eller Mickey Spillane, to name but a few. At the time of writing the thread has been split up into 26 pages with lots of faked stories.
Amongst the high-points are foind amongst other things an onomatopeaic (bleh, spelling?) version in Irvine Welses style, two attempts to combine Tolkiens story with Chuck Palahniuks “Fight Club” (one taken from the book, one from the film), a funny drug-version signed Hunder S Thompson and a perversion/corruption (not sure which, its like a “twisting”) of P L Travers “Mary Poppins” that is as intelligent as it is well written.
The first comment on metafilter would be a worthy addition the the thread. Cracked me up.
But again my Suess one is quoted without attributing it. grumble…
I got that feeling too, let’s just save time and ask which 5 dopers did not post a parody. That would be a short thread.
i haven’t posted. I haven’t even read the thread.
I bow down to the superior iron will of Tars Tarkus
showoff:D
p.s. sorry my green grinning face doesn’t have tusks
I haven’t read the thread either. I kept meaning to, but then it exploded, and I didn’t want to get any of it on me.
i’m with tars tarkas, haven’t posted, haven’t read. slightly curious every now and then but not enough to tackle the size of the beast.
perhaps someday if i have a very, very, quiet and dull snow day at work with the t1 line…
It makes me wish my Ayn Rand version ran longer than one paragraph.
I’m one of the 5. I haven’t read any of it either. It wouldn’t make any sense to me because I haven’t seen either of the LOTR movies yet. We’ve got the DVD of FotR, the kids love it, I just haven’t had 3 hours to sit and watch it. Or technically I haven’t had 3 hours with the DESIRE to sit and watch it. I was a deprived (depraved?) child, never read the books. I don’t even know what the story is about…
:eek:
Fantasy just never was my thing. I preferred (and still do I guess) comedy over pretty much everything else. I must be missing out. And I suddenly feel artistically retarded.
We had to edit out the John Galt speech. One paragraph was all that was left over. 
Think Dungeons & Dragons without the hit points and dice rolling.
<ducking and running from the Tolkien fans>
I was gonna read the LOTR thread, but I was busy drilling a hole in my head.