Rename the LotR book(s)!

This thread was inspired by this posting in the ‘Which Two Towers?’ thread:

I have a few suggestions of my own:

Frodo Baggins’ Day Out

The Elvish Princess Bride

The Usual Maiar Suspects

Bring Me The Head Of The Ringbearer

Citizen Saruman

Burning Trees With Wolves

OK, it’s your turn!

Monty Python and the Two Towers.

Planet of the Rings

Beneath the Planet of the Rings

Escape from the Planet of the Rings

Conquest of the Planet of the Rings

Battle for the Planet of the Rings

Planet of the Rings (Tim Burton remake version)

I know, I cheated, they weren’t books. Try again:

Middle Earth

Middle Earth Messiah

Children of Middle Earth

God Emperor of Middle Earth

Heretics of Middle Earth

Chapter House Middle Earth

and by Christopher Tolkein:

Prelude to Middle Earth

  1. House Finwe
  2. House Olwe
  3. House Elwe
  4. Melkorian Jihad

“Stop the Planet of the Rings, I Want To Get Off” (The stage-musical featuring Troy McClure)

Don’t worry, anything goes!
(The original suggestions were all films…)

Le Comte de Monte Doom

Les Trois Hobbits

Le Chevalier de Orthanc

Le Chevalier de Minas Tirith

Le Vicomte de Rivendell

(All by Alexandre Tolkeinas)

Gone With The Ring

To Kill a Hobbit

A Tale Of Two Towers

One Flew Over Mount Doom - (I don’t know how to really spell th ename of that perticular mountain.)

B*****d. I wish I’d thought of that one. Well done!

The Fellowship Of The Ring:
The Nine
The Notorious Nine.

The Two Towers:
Losta Towers

Sorry that should be: “Lotsa Towers”

Wow - I inspired a thread! :slight_smile:

Okay, while I still have to stick by my “D,WMT?” title, here is another set of possibilities, based on the Tolkien’s original division of the work into 6 “books” (rather than the usual titles for the “trilogy”).

Book I: Frodo and Sam’s Excellent Adventure
Book II: O Gandalf, Where Art Thou?
Book III: War and Trees
Book IV: Frodo and Sam’s Bogus Journey
Book V: Orcs and Uruks and Nazgul, O My!
Book VI: Frodo Versus the Volcano

What do you think, sirs?

I think that “Frodo and Sam’s Bogus Journey” deserves: :smiley: :smiley: !

I. Frodo and Sam’s Excellent Adventure. (ala monstre - but we were both thinking the same thing).

II.Wraith’s World
III Dude! Where’s My Ring?

If it were a porno:

Lord of the Cockrings.

The Shadow of the Abhorred[sup]*[/sup]

The Ring of the Conciliator

The Sword of the King

The Citadel of the Steward

[sup]*[/sup]Sauron was “The Abhorred”

Book 1: Rings In The Attic

Book 2: The Hunt For Frodo In October

Book 3: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Wizards

Book 4: Bang the Gollum Slowly

Book 5: Something Wicked On a Flying Monster Thing Comes

Book 6: Catch-Aringinmountdoom

The Sue Grafton approach, but I’d need to further subdivide the books:

Prolog:
A is for Alchemy (and the forging of the rings)
Book 1:
B is for Baggins
C is for Caradhras
Book 2:
D is for Dunedain
E is for Ents
Book 3:
F is for Frodo
G is for Gollum
Appendix:
H is for Havens

Or there’s the Erle Stanley Gardner approach:

Book I:
The Case of the Ruling Ring
The Case of the Broken Fellowship
Book II:
The Case of the Sorry Saruman
The Case of the Grumbling Gollum
Book III:
The Case of the Nasty Nazgul
The Case of the Fiery Forge

The Many-Colored Middle Earth

The Golden Ring

The Born King

The Adversary