# Index to the LotR "What If" Thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667 "2003-01-04T21:54:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Istari\_Inc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/57b2e6/32.png) [@Istari\_Inc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Istari_Inc)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/21 "2003-01-08T09:24:28Z")
OUTSTANDING! ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/22 "2003-01-08T13:18:19Z")
Wow. Now with all the “slash dot” additions (868 posts as of now) the index will need a major update. Ummmm. Good luck and God bless. ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/23 "2003-01-08T13:32:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Algernon \* > \*\*Wow. Now with all the “slash dot” additions (868 posts as of now) the index will need a major update. Ummmm. Good luck and God bless. \*\* Tell me about it. However, a good portion of those 868 posts are “Wow, this is so great” types, not huge entries. Still, :eek:. Has a thread ever been closed for being _too_ popular? ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/24 "2003-01-10T04:40:01Z")
Just for the record, my “Sauron, by JRR Plathkien” was supposed to be a parody of Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” if you wanted to add that to your register. It’s the only one I’ve managed to write so far that didn’t end up doubling up with someone else’s efforts, so I’m particularly proud of it. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/25 "2003-01-10T05:04:16Z")
OK, thanks. It’s on hold until the weekend or so, but I plan to giv Euty a run for the money. Apparently Mr. Teemings has something against databases and php. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![amy\_attorney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@amy\_attorney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amy_attorney)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/26 "2003-01-21T22:50:29Z")
Authors: John Grisham TV Shows: All In The Family/Norman Lear Movies: John Cusack, Forrest Gump, Rain Man/Dustin Hoffman Musical Theatre: Les Miserables (2), Chess Singers: Sarah MacLachlan, The Mamas and The Papas, U2 Miscellaneous: Dr. Phil, Limericks, Heard Over the South Pacific …and those are just the ones I posted… although you did list my Pinky & The Brain _grin_ ---
**Author:** ![MMercurius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@MMercurius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MMercurius)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/27 "2003-01-21T23:32:13Z")
av8rmike, may I respectfully request these additions to the index as they are sincere efforts, and I DID read the thread before posting! First, a couple of ‘serious’ author efforts: - Kim Stanley Robinson - T.S. Eliot (The Love Song of J.R.R. Prufrock) Next, the humourous ones which got a laugh from the readers: - sysadmin - Bumper stickers of the Ring - Engrish version (all your Ring are belong to us!) - haiku (a few throughout the thread) - limericks (there are a few throughout the thread) ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/28 "2003-01-22T00:34:12Z")
Good job, that man. But where is the reference to my ‘Jolly Swagman’ effort? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![amy\_attorney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@amy\_attorney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amy_attorney)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/29 "2003-01-22T00:44:09Z")
and hey, what about the legalese posts? _grin_ ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/30 "2003-01-22T00:52:54Z")
There’s an Laurell K Hamilton version?? Where? If someone would direct me to the correct page (it’s all great but so much to wade through that I can only read one page at a time and it keeps growing _sobs_) ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/31 "2003-01-22T01:07:30Z")
Don’t remind me, **Obsidian** … 30+ pages! :eek: :: wanders off in search of strong drink and possibly strychnine :: ---
**Author:** ![amy\_attorney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@amy\_attorney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amy_attorney)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/32 "2003-01-22T01:08:30Z")
You also left out the philosophers… Alexis de Tocqueville, etc. (I did him, I know other people did others, can’t recall exactly who tho) ---
**Author:** ![amy\_attorney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@amy\_attorney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amy_attorney)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/33 "2003-01-22T01:09:52Z")
TV Shows: The Twilight Zone, The Brady Bunch ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/34 "2003-01-22T02:41:40Z")
You know, with a bit of editing, someone could publish this thing as a book … although the copyright issues would be, well, difficult. 😃 I know my “OJ Simpson trial” parody would not be edited out, though it is not in the index yet. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![InTransit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47774/32.png) [@InTransit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InTransit)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/35 "2003-01-22T03:00:56Z")
U2! Don’t forget the U2 spoofs! Frodo take a walk to the mountain of doom… ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/36 "2003-01-25T08:42:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by av8rmike \* > \*\* > **FriarTed** , what is Dr. Jack Elrond’s Phonographic Journal? > (both on page 4) \*\* Sorry- I didn’t see this till just now- it’s from Bram Stoker’s SAURONULA- in DRACULA, Stoker had the character Dr. Jack Seward keep his Journal on Phonographic Wax Cylinders. ---
**Author:** ![pjt33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@pjt33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjt33)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/37 "2003-01-25T22:27:20Z")
In case it wasn’t obvious, mine was Robert Graves. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/38 "2003-01-25T23:32:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Malthus \* > \*\*You know, with a bit of editing, someone could publish this thing as a book … although the copyright issues would be, well, difficult. \*\* Actually, it wouldn’t be any problem at all, so long as the “someone” was the Chicago Reader: > [@](#): > > “The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams” is a registered trademark of Chicago Reader, Inc. Contents of the Straight Dope Message Board and the Straight Dope Web site are copyright 1984-2003 by the Chicago Reader, Inc. All rights reserved. \*\*By posting on this board you grant the Chicago Reader, Inc., and its successors and assigns a nonexclusive irrevocable right to re-use your posting in any manner it or they see fit without notice or compensation to you. \*\*No material contained in this site may be republished or reposted without express written consent of the Chicago Reader, Inc., except that message board users retain the right to republish or repost their own work. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667/39 "2003-01-26T01:15:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by glee \* > Good job, that man. > > But where is the reference to my ‘Jolly Swagman’ effort? :eek: Apologies to both you (and of course A. B. “Banjo” Paterson) - you did mention it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/index-to-the-lotr-what-if-thread/146667.md?page=1)