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The Tolkien Joke and Meme thread

Agreed, someone was stretching for a funny meme. I was just amused by it for some stupid reason lol
Erm - if you were amused by this, you never had to deal with this ball (without chain) personally in the ways you showed. I definitely did! And that ball was the least troublesome bit!!!
 
Erm - if you were amused by this, you never had to deal with this ball (without chain) personally in the ways you showed. I definitely did! And that ball was the least troublesome bit!!!

Oh I definitely did. They were still being used by my elementary school and a few of the classrooms in my high school. I remember having to take the ball out and unwrap threads off of it and of finding mice that the other idiot high school students stole the balls out of.
 
... and of finding mice that the other idiot high school students stole the balls out of.
I can imagine Hobbit kids doing the same, as those balls probably made excellent slingshot ammunition! 🤣
But then some rustic Hobbits had an ambivalent opinion of the value of education.
Gaffer Gamgee's comment somewhere that Bilbo had "taught Sam his letters - meaning no harm, mind you" 😨
 
I've been wondering if JRRT even had any influence (in whatever way) on the DC comics superheroes collectively known as "Green Lantern"? Not on the first one, certainly, created in 1940. But the second one, a different character, "reinvented in 1959", was post-LoTR. There have been ten of them as per Wikipedia, so no match to one, three, seven and nine, but the quote "The characters are typically depicted as members of the Green Lantern Corps, an interstellar law enforcement agency." does make me think of Maiar sent to Middle-earth in the Third Age ...
 
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