All I know is every time someone starts one of these oh-so-amusing LOTR parody threads the SDMB sinks into a mire of slug that takes it the rest of the day to crawl out of.
So just quit it, will ya. LOTR is boring enough without people writing more of it. All this is attracting armies of LOTR geeks and now we’re cross-breeding them with a plague of Python freaks. For pity sake, this is surely more than one message board can take!
I always wondered why the Dark Lord didn’t turn invisible when he put on the Ring (i.e. the mondo battle scene in the first movie). I don’t really care, I just thought it would be mondo kewl if suddenly all those wimpy elves started exploding all over the place and you couldn’t see what was doing it.
I wasn’t planning to write my own LOTR parody and add it to that long thread. But gosh darn it, after reading the OP here, I’ve decided I WILL write one. I can recognize a cry for help. Futile Gesture is apparently using reverse psychology and wants to see more of these parodies. What makes me think so? Because my folks used reverse psychology on me during my childhood and my teen years. “FairyDust, DON’T stick coffee beans up your nose!” “FairyDust, DON’T copy your brother who thought just because he was wearing Superman pajamas that he could really fly out the bedroom window!”
The emergency room doctors got to know me really well in my younger days. But, hey, I turned out just fine.
Well, I’m off to write my LOTR parody. Might take a few days.
Incidentally, I don’t consider myself a brilliant parodist, but… a few weeks ago, Dave Barry got around to writing his own version of LOTR. And, frankly, MY version of “What if Dave Barry had written LOTR” was waaaaaaaay better than his!
My Mickey Spillane wasn’t that great, though, I freely admit.
“Wimpy elves”, pah! Anyway, I’m extrapolating a little from The Shadow of the Past (FotR, chapter II) and In the House of Tom Bombadil (FotR, chapter VII) that the Ring could not make Sauron invisible because he was powerful enough to fully control it. Gandalf doesn’t immediately deduce that the Ring is the One Ring simply because he knows it could turn Bilbo invisible, so I presume Lesser Rings could have done the same. Hence I guess the Greater Rings would so affect mortals; but the Greater Rings that the Elves wore didn’t make their wearers invisible; nor did the One Ring affect Bombadil. Hence my deduction.
