That’s it, I’m calling officer ROXANNE!
Better send her a message in a bottle.
Sorry, I can’t hear you above the din of my Rice Krispies.
Anyone else remember the turbo beam car? I saved up 50 cents and two box tops from Rice Krispy’s to get one. When it finally arrived, it lasted less than an hour before being totaled in a collision with a wall. My mother used to call it the best fifty cents I ever spent.
Well then I’ll have the secretaries howl and scream like cheap tarts in a red light street. That should get your attention.
I’ll just have to build a fortress around my heart.
Just be careful of all those mines you laid, that they don’t bite you in the arse. Then I will be the last, there can only be one.
One ring to rule them all
I remember that ring!!! That was ages ago.
Ash nazg durbatuluk
Ash nazg gimbatul
Ash nazg thrakatuluk
Agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
Or something like that.
Just met a guy who had the One Ring’s Elvish letters tattooed around one bicep. I kid you not.
Did you have to throw him into a fire to read them?
Fortunately not!
Two items of trivia:
Tolkien once received as a gift from a fan a steel goblet engraved with the ring inscription. He was rather appalled and said that he never drank from it but sometimes used it as an ashtray.
He also said that long after creating the Black Speech verse, he learned that a Gaelic word for “ring” is “nasc”. He claimed not to have consciously based “nazg” on that word and wasn’t sure how he came to create a Black Speech word with such a similar form to the Gaelic word. He said that he had “no liking” for Gaelic and suspected that nevertheless he had once known the word and it “became lodged in some corner of [his] linguistic memory”.
Not to worry, those are by the shore, of a dark Scottish Loch, many miles away.
Sounds monstrous.
So your fortress is a dark Scottish Loch. So you are the Monster?
My fortress is a cottage, and if you come snooping around there, I’ll be watching you.
Everywhere you go…