Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien Subject: Funny LOTR take in [rec.arts.sf.written] Re: Ultimate evil (was Re: Series you gave up on....) From: rpresser@NOSPAMimtek.com.invalid (Ross Presser) References: Organization: Imtek, Inc. Message-ID: <8E6E96D4Fpt101594@10.4.0.21> User-Agent: Xnews/2.09.03 Lines: 43 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:27:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.204.202.75 X-Trace: typhoon1.gnilink.net 941221626 151.204.202.75 (Fri, 29 Oct 1999 14:27:06 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 14:27:06 EDT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.flash.net!gw22.nn.bcandid.com!gate.bCandid.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!typhoon1.gnilink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Saw this reposted to alt.humor.best-of-usenet: Subject: Re: Ultimate evil (was Re: Series you gave up on....) From: Doctor Witch Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written In article <3817424E.5E30112D@erols.com>, Brenda wrote: > Doctor Witch wrote: > > In article <3814c88f.3619282@news.xs4all.nl>, sgvd@xs4all.nl > (Simon van > > Dongen) wrote: > > > > > > > > > Morgoth was in it for power, too. (Valaquenta) I think, extrapolating > > > from what Tolkien in said (iirc in a letter) that Sauron was a > > > technolophile (not that Tolkien would ever have used that word) who > > > was impatient with the powers that be and went to work somewhere he > > > wasn't bothered by petty rules, who then 'graduated' into management > > > and was left holding the whole caboodle when the boss got caught. > > > > That's very interesting! Do you have any idea where you read that? > > > > It puts a whole new, Dilbert-esque spin on LOTR. > > > > Doc W. > > > And recall that at least on the Ace edition of the trilogy, the Evildoers > have helmets with two horns! Could that have been -their hair-?! BOSS: "Has anybody seen the One Ring?" DILBERT: "Someone from Marketing took it to do focus group testing. I think his name was Smeagol..." DOGBERT: "We must now dispatch the Nine Customer Support Wraiths to get it back in time for the trade show." -- Ross Presser ross_presser@imtek.com "And if you're the kind of person who parties with a bathtub full of pasta, I suspect you don't care much about cholesterol anyway."