# Delusional Egomaniacal LOTR fan-fiction writer has a bad day **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** middle-earth, books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [December 19, 2023, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delusional-egomaniacal-lotr-fan-fiction-writer-has-a-bad-day/994800 "2023-12-19T01:23:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2023, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delusional-egomaniacal-lotr-fan-fiction-writer-has-a-bad-day/994800/7 "2023-12-19T08:57:54Z")
Yes, that still makes me angry: > [@So you have way too much money. You buy a comic for 2.66 Million Euro, of course](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-have-way-too-much-money-you-buy-a-comic-for-2-66-million-euro-of-course/954776): > > The estimate was only 25,000 - 35,000 Euro, but something got out of hand: OK, I get it. Jean Giroud is better known under the name Moebius. He was a genius. Alejandro Jodorowsky is no nobody either. And Dune is just popular right now. I was outbid by a factor of over 65… sigh. The expert that estimated the sale value must have been a bit surprised too. Now who is the billionaire that has a soft spot for Dune and Jodorowsky and Moebius? And who was the other bidder who drove him to such an e… But I would not call NFT-crypto-scammers “investors”. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delusional-egomaniacal-lotr-fan-fiction-writer-has-a-bad-day/994800)._