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Guard of the Citadel
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Just found a funny page on this topic, check it out here: http://www.astro.umd.edu/~pierce/lotrbyothers.html
Of course, if anyone has an idea of how another writer would write it, it would great to read some. ![]()
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Shade of Carn Dûm
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I the ones by Mark Twain and Douglas Adams are my favourite.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Dashiell Hammett would be a good choice to parody. He's one of my favorites.
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Pilgrim Soul
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There was a thread here with parodies on I think.... I haven't found it yet but I remember it was good...
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Princess of Skwerlz
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There's a nice long thread with lots of contributions by various Downers here: If LotR had been written by someone else
That thread has traditionally been located on the Books forum for so long that it has not been moved to Mirth. For those who would prefer to post here, I will leave this thread open for now. If you would like to contribute a new parody tale, please use the above-linked thread so that there will be no confusion when searching. Thanks!
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Pilgrim Soul
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That was it... no wonder I didn't find it ... I looked in Mirth....
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Guard of the Citadel
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Sorry about that, didn't know there was another one for this.
Well, you could just move the first posts into the other thread and delete this one, that would be ok with me.
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Dread Horseman
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By the way, the first couple (at least) on that linked page were cribbed from our old thread.
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Thanks for the link Esty.
![]() ![]() Although, to be fair, the owner of the site (assuming that it is the same one) did pop up on the thread to request permission to use the Downers' contributions on his own site and appears generally to have been given licence to do so.
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Princess of Skwerlz
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Well, it turned out that the first few on that thread were posted by a member who found them elsewhere and "forgot" to acknowledge his source. They did not originate on the Downs.
Anything that is published on the internet spreads rapidly, but whenever possible, the original author should be named.
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Pilgrim Soul
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I mentioned it because I remembered it being remarkably good and worth bringing to a new audience not because it was a duplicate ![]() I don't think you possibly could have known about it - I only had a vague memory of it from my earliest days here and looked quite hard - though in the wrong place... ![]()
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shadow of a doubt
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Yeah I remember reading that thread and laughing heartily. Some of those contributions were very good regardless of the source (which, as Esty points out, always should be acknowledged nevertheless)
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Guard of the Citadel
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Well then, let's keep the thread... enough talking about threads...
Looking forward to some new ideas on LotR as written by others. ![]()
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