The Tolkien Joke and Meme thread

[Olorgando]

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Hobbit_Memes/comments/dikms8

OK, similar strangeness to that I experienced in member Ron Simpson's post elsewhere.
When I entered the thread, I am sure I saw a link to Facebook something (Facebook definitely belongs to my bêtes noir on the Internet, it has a few positive uses … 😒 )
After a few seconds, this link line disappeared …
As I did then, I'll replace the square brackets of the presumed BB code with parentheses so you can see what I'm writing about - going to "Preview" ...
So here it is … 🤔

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Olorgando]

Google must be hog heaven for hypochondriacs. Hundreds of fatal diseases to choose from.
Seriously, though, this as other Internet information sources can be a useful addition to more reputable ones. I don't know if Google & Co. have something like a "garbage filter". By all I have read and heard, very weak ones at best.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

 

[ArwenStar]

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Aldarion]

 

[Alcuin]

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

Oh my gosh, that meme has spread even here! XD XD XD



I see what you did there.



CL

 

[1stvermont]

Love it great stuff guys.

 

[Olorgando]

Oh my gosh, that meme has spread even here! XD XD XD
I see what you did there.
CL

I'm afraid you allusions just fly way over my head and leave me utterly mystified … 🤕
Can anyone give me some hints what's behind this (to me) deepest trivia question?

 

[Aldarion]

I'm afraid you allusions just fly way over my head and leave me utterly mystified … 🤕
Can anyone give me some hints what's behind this (to me) deepest trivia question?

Basically, he only sees markings on the One Ring after buying dip from Gandalf.

 

[Olorgando]

Basically, he only sees markings on the One Ring after buying dip from Gandalf.

Erm … meaning in his dip, Gandalf has help from (film) Radagast and his "special herb garden"? 🥴

But how and from where did a dip enter the picture? I don't remember anything like it being mentioned for either party, unexpected or long-expected. 🤔

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

I'm afraid you allusions just fly way over my head and leave me utterly mystified … 🤕
Can anyone give me some hints what's behind this (to me) deepest trivia question?

No, I meant the Epstein joke.



CL

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Olorgando]

I'm afraid you allusions just fly way over my head and leave me utterly mystified … 🤕
Can anyone give me some hints what's behind this (to me) deepest trivia question?

No, I meant the Epstein joke.



CL

The fog refuses to clear. The first Epstein that comes to mind to an ancient like myself is Brian Epstein, the former manager of the Beatles who died at only age 32 back in 1967. An event that meant nothing to my 11-year-old self back then, I doubt that I even took notice; I had heard of the Beatles ...
Recent news item: Jeffrey Epstein, former teacher, then financier and convicted sex offender (in 2008), re-arrested on similar charges middle of this year and found dead in his cell in New York in early August of apparent suicide. Any jokes about him would have to be deep in black humor territory … 😬

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

found dead in his cell in New York in early August of apparent suicide

Nah, it was his buddies putting up an order for him in to the "apparent suicide hotline" XD


XD


Back to Tolkien!

 

[Olorgando]

Nah, it was his buddies putting up an order for him in to the "apparent suicide hotline" XD
XD
Back to Tolkien!

Methinks my interest wanes ...
But Brian Epstein => Beatles => music => JRRT
("brainstorming" alert!!!)
Maglor. Daeron. Do we have a Beatles / Stones confrontation here??? Who would take which part???
Meh. Solo artists. OK, so which of them is Elvis of the First Age? Could First Age harps match the sound bombardment of a Stratocaster or a Les Paul hooked up to a Marshall amp?

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

Could First Age harps match the sound bombardment of a Stratocaster or a Les Paul hooked up to a Marshall amp?

Where do you think the Edain got the idea of a Stratocaster? Those Elvish Harps must have had some effect on em!


CL

 

[Olorgando]

Where do you think the Edain got the idea of a Stratocaster? Those Elvish Harps must have had some effect on em!
CL

Erm!!! The only being (this is the films, obviously) I ever saw who had the slightest notion of what a guitar might be was the "Great Goblin" in the TH! And only in the EEs, IIRC!
Precursor of Meat Loaf (not a guitarist, as far as I know) or Popa Chubby, maybe? The latter plays a blues guitar that would bring any subterranean Orc stronghold crashing down on them. Reduce the Misty Mountains to foothills! 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸