A repost from AD 2020, but it fits the topic.
News Flash: an early draft copy of JRR Tolkien's chapter 'Many Partings' from The Return of the King has been discovered. Its content may have significant impact on a critical ongoing debate in the United States.
The excerpt reads:
An éored of the finest knights of the Carolina Firearms Forum were welcomed; and when they sat all at table in Merethrond, the Great Hall of Feasts, they betook the fine taste of all the spreads and sauces they sampled and they were filled with great wonder. And before they went to their rest, they sent for the ProfMagoo and they said to him: 'ProfMagoo, have you your Glock ready?'
'Nay, lords,' said Magoo, 'but I can speedily fetch it if there be need.' [Aragorn must have been a gun-free zone sort of king in the early years of his reign. This is surprising given his experience at Edoras- ed.]
'You shall judge,' they said. 'For there are certain rash words concerning Miracle Whip that lie still between us. And now we have tasted this with our own lips.'
'Well, lords,' said Magoo, 'and what say you now?'
'Alas!' said they. 'We shall not say that Miracle Whip is the fairest spread in the land.'
'Then I must go for my Glock,' said Magoo.
'But first we will plead this excuse,' said the host of CFF. 'Had we tasted Miracle Whip in other company we would have said all that you could wish. But now we shall put Duke's first, and we are ready to do battle on our own part against any who deny us. Shall we call for our 1911's?'
Then Magoo bowed low. 'Nay, you are excused for my part, gentle knights,' he said. 'You have chosen the Mayo; but my love is given to the Dressing. And my heart forebodes that soon it will pass away forever.'
-- with due apologies to the Great Man, JRRT.
News Flash: an early draft copy of JRR Tolkien's chapter 'Many Partings' from The Return of the King has been discovered. Its content may have significant impact on a critical ongoing debate in the United States.
The excerpt reads:
An éored of the finest knights of the Carolina Firearms Forum were welcomed; and when they sat all at table in Merethrond, the Great Hall of Feasts, they betook the fine taste of all the spreads and sauces they sampled and they were filled with great wonder. And before they went to their rest, they sent for the ProfMagoo and they said to him: 'ProfMagoo, have you your Glock ready?'
'Nay, lords,' said Magoo, 'but I can speedily fetch it if there be need.' [Aragorn must have been a gun-free zone sort of king in the early years of his reign. This is surprising given his experience at Edoras- ed.]
'You shall judge,' they said. 'For there are certain rash words concerning Miracle Whip that lie still between us. And now we have tasted this with our own lips.'
'Well, lords,' said Magoo, 'and what say you now?'
'Alas!' said they. 'We shall not say that Miracle Whip is the fairest spread in the land.'
'Then I must go for my Glock,' said Magoo.
'But first we will plead this excuse,' said the host of CFF. 'Had we tasted Miracle Whip in other company we would have said all that you could wish. But now we shall put Duke's first, and we are ready to do battle on our own part against any who deny us. Shall we call for our 1911's?'
Then Magoo bowed low. 'Nay, you are excused for my part, gentle knights,' he said. 'You have chosen the Mayo; but my love is given to the Dressing. And my heart forebodes that soon it will pass away forever.'
-- with due apologies to the Great Man, JRRT.
