The Graffiti of Middle Earth

Or Bored With The Rings Carved into a tree in Mirkwood: Watch out for Treebeard, girls. He's fast! On a restroom wall in the Shire: Hoo boy! that Bilbo Baggins, I'm so tired of His Naggins. Scribbled on the pink walls of a Mordor Pissoir in black ichor: Sauron sucks Galadriel's toes! Do Nazguls really need to go? Free Gollum! Scrawled on the poker table in the Orc's Recreation Room: Those Nazguls are such creeps They've been dead so long They actually think DVDs Are really BVDs. Once every millennia or so Galadriel's Mirror fogs up. . . Elrond's mother was a brunette! Arwen rocks me! The Grey Havens suck. Who's your Daddy? Attributed to Orcs in the Mines of Moria: Elves, schmelves They think their ichor don't stink. More from Moria: Mordor! I'll give you Mordor, You two-timing dwarf! Attributed to a bright Olog-hai at Isengard: How many dwarves does it take to change a light bulb in the caves of Moria? Answer - At least fifty: One to change the bulb, one to twiddle his beard while wondering what a light bulb is, and 48 to feed the cave troll! Lipstick (from wild berries of course) smeared on the mirror in the Rivendell Ladies Room He's so pretty, he's so cool I can't help it, Legolas rules! Stencilled on an inner wall at Minas Tirith: Gandalf rides a whisk broom! Thimk, you Hobbits! Boromir slept here with Hobbits. Gimli did too! Carved on the White Tree: Isildur did it! Bored with the Rings (Initials below are almost illegible but may be JRRT.) While not technically graffiti, the items that follow were sent to me by another clandestine source. Though he did not request anonymity, I am still loathe to attribute these materials to someone known to me only as that "Fool of a Took." A small collection of Middle-Earth bumper stickers: Orcs do it in the dark! Wizards do it with will! Balrogs fire it up! Elves do it lightly! Rangers do it with elves! Merry changed his name and did it! Nazguls used to do it! Trolls still wonder. . . Recent headlines in The Gondor World News: Treebeard Is the Father of My Child! I Was a Balrog Love Slave Samwise Gamgee Separates from Mr. Frodo Merry and Pip. . .Together Again Eowyn Breaks Up Aragorn and Arwen's Love Nest Amphibian Rescued from Flames. . . Frodo lives. . . and though sick and tired of elves, is hiding from Samwise in the Grey Havens Copyright, Thomas James Martin, all rights reserved.