# If The Hobbit/LOTR had Facebook.....
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-hobbit-lotr-had-facebook/645644
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 31, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-hobbit-lotr-had-facebook/645644 "2012-12-31T06:51:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-hobbit-lotr-had-facebook/645644/1 "2012-12-31T06:51:18Z")
What type of posts would you expect to see?
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Thorin and 12 others have checked into Rivendell
_Elrond likes this_
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Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee have checked into the Green Dragon
_Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took like this_
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Thror King Under the Mountain has reached 4.5 stars on ‘Bejeweled Blitz’
_Thrain son of Thror and Thorin Oakenshield play this_
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Event posted, by invitation only: by Thorin Oakenshield… “Reclaiming Erebor from Smaug”.
Invites: 10,000. Going: 13. Maybe: 0. Not going: 9,987.
Bilbo Baggins has joined "Event posted, by invitation only: by Thorin Oakenshield… “Reclaiming Erebor from Smaug” as “Maybe”
Invites: 10,000. Going: 13. Maybe: 1. Not going: 9,986.
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Nazgul #1:
Got a new ride today! Ditched the black horse for a flying fell beast. Woot!!
Nazgul #2, Nazgul #3, and six others like this.
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Disclaimer: I stole most of these from the IMDb Message Boards for The Hobbit. But I think the gang at THIS message board could run with it and make it even better! Whadaya got?..TRM
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### Author:  [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-hobbit-lotr-had-facebook/645644/2 "2012-12-31T20:17:21Z")
[This version was amusing.](http://9gag.com/gag/6051431?ref=fb.s)
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-hobbit-lotr-had-facebook/645644/3 "2012-12-31T22:22:44Z")
“Still not king”
[http://www.ealasaid.com/misc/vsd/aragorn.html](http://www.ealasaid.com/misc/vsd/aragorn.html)
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-hobbit-lotr-had-facebook/645644/4 "2013-01-03T01:40:37Z")
> [@DrDeth](#):
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> “Still not king”
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> [http://www.ealasaid.com/misc/vsd/aragorn.html](http://www.ealasaid.com/misc/vsd/aragorn.html)
Does it ever finish, or does it just end at Frodo separating from the party? It seemed to have a good thing going, but then it just stopped.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-hobbit-lotr-had-facebook/645644/5 "2013-01-03T02:20:54Z")
> [@BigT](#):
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> Does it ever finish, or does it just end at Frodo separating from the party? It seemed to have a good thing going, but then it just stopped.
The author, Cassandra Claire, wrote a bunch of these after seeing FotR in 2001 (IIRC, they were originally posted in her LiveJournal), then a few more after seeing TTT in '02, but then abandoned the idea. Too bad; they were hilarious.
> **[The Very Secret Diaries - Fanlore](https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Very_Secret_Diaries)**