Cessna 'incident'

The Nazgul were pretty distracted at the Ford of Bruinen
and if Gandalf and his mates hadn't spent so much time partying at Elrond's
they could have recruited a few eagles to fly round the back of Mount Doom,
out of sight of Barad-dur, and saved 600 pages of drivel.

 

http://www.ojaipost.com/2007/10/happy-halloween-ojai/ more like.

 

But that was before they'd even decided to take the offending item
back to it's maker.

But destiny would have been unfulfilled. And without the tens of
thousands of dead Arogant would never have been invited to be King,
and the poor Gondorites would have had to go on living peacefully
under the despotic rule of the Steward. That wouldn't do at all.

 

Very familiar to all of us living so close.
Gimli is an hour north of here.

Bob

 

The Gimli Glider was due to a miscalulation at about the time of the
switchover from imperial to metric measures.

Bob

 

I can see how that would help it stick out in your memory.

 

I prefer the LITE(tm) version of LOTR, as recounted by /usr/games/fortune:

Lord of the Rings LITE(tm)
-- by J. R. R. Tolkien

Some guys take a long vacation to throw a ring into a volcano.

 

You git!

You could have added a spoiler alert, ffs.

 

You have no concept of "REALLY getting away from the office and the
house" do you? If you do it right you take nothing with you that wont
fit on your back.

 

Oh yeah and Frodo comes down with a nasty case of PTSD (we wont
mention that gollum gave hime the clap)