read it and laugh. it’s hilarious, and brilliant. (via NTK.
wxcerpt:
The King of the Nazgul (KotN) fingered the safety buckle that secured the shortsword in it’s scabbard. It was modeled after the Gladius design, making it wholly inadequate for going up against Elven armour, but it was perfectly suited for being jammed in the collarbone of a Hobbit ‘merc, without calling too much attention to it’s owner. His XO, “Camel” Khamul had used a similar weapon in numerous CoIN missions in North Gondor, where he had been sent to disrupt “Elrond’s” supply fellowships sneaking down the Is-ild-ur trail.
The KotN smiled, even without a head. This mission was almost going to be a mead-run. Taking out a squad of sleeping halflings was going to be easier than slaying Wyvyrns sitting on a tarmac…-Hunt for the Ring, Tom Clancy
If I were to tell you the true story behind the unmaking of that ring…that ring!…you would think me mad. Horrors such as are scribed in ancient tomes of eldritch evil cannot compare to the terror…the cruel, cold, braincrushing terror!…that we felt in the lair of that foul spirit which raimed itself in arachnid form, that vile scavenger, that horrid arcane leech lingering at the border’s of Sauron’s Black Land…
-The Ring-Journal of an Anonymous Hobbit, by H.P. Lovecraft