Fortunately the Wicked Witch is a talented actress, so she was only pretending to be on Sauron's side.

Unfortunately she was still wicked.

Fortunately, she and Sauron were so busy fighting that they both lost track of the Ring.

Unfortunately the Ring landed in the hands of the heartless Tin Man.

Fortunetaly the Brainless Scarecrow tripped and landed on top of the Tin Man, sending the ring flying.

Unfortunately, Shelob came and took the ring. With the power the Ring gave her, she destroyed all these Wizard of Oz creatures and told Rodger Waters to stop playing The Dark side of the Moon!

Fortunately few of the Free Peoples wanted to hear the Dark Side of the Moon anyway.

Unfortunately, Shelob was now poised to take over the world because she had the ring.

Fortunately she chocked to death at her I-took-over-the-world feast.

Unfortunately she choked on the Ring so it was now inside her stomach.

Fortunately, Sam came along and cut Shelob up and the Ring fell out!

Unfortunately, Sam claimed the Ring for himself and stole all the taters in the entire world! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Fortunately, he got so fat from all those taters that the Ring wouldn't fit on his finger anymore.

Unfortunately, as mentioned elsewhere on this forum, the Ring could and did change size to fit its bearer.

Fortunately, the ring was self-concious and said: "I'm soooo fat! And it's all your fault!" and upon those words, it rolled off into the nearest salon/psychiatrist office to work its feelings out, and purchase a new pair of nails with little eye balls and rose buds on them. Oh! Don't they look so pretty?


~ Ka

Unfortunately it fell down a Sink Pipe...

This thread goes ever on and on...
 

Fortunately, the Sink Pipe led directly to Mount Doom.

Unfortunately, there were some Orcs inspecting the drains in Mount Doom at that time.

Fortunately with the Ring's new garb, they didn't recognize it.

Unfortunately, the Witch King was visiting at the time and he did recognize it.

sneaking in to steal the 900th post ;) (from the Mirth page's perspective at least)
 

Fortunately, in its new garb the Ring was not particularly alluring, so the Witch-King decided to heck with it & left it alone.

Unfortunately the Ring did not want to be left and it stowed away in the Witch King's cloak.

Fortunately, there was a small, ring-sized hole in the Witch's cloak...

Unfortunately, it fell through and landed right in Gollum's hands.

Fortunately Gollum was still running his 'taters' restaurant (see Crazy Captions) and threw it in the fryer.

Unfortunately, this did absolutely no harm to the ring, it being just as impervious to hot vegetable oil as fire.

Fortunately, Frodo decided to stop by Gollum's shop for a bite to eat.

Unfortunately, it started raining cats and dogs... literally, not figuratively.

fortunately gollum had umbrellas that were cat and dog proof.

unfortunately they hade holes in them.

Fortunately, they were inside the cafe, so the falling felines and diving dogs didn't matter.

Unfortunately by this time Gollum had noticed the Ring and was sneaking off with it.

fortunatly gollum was so happy that he accadently when dancing therw the ring back to frodo.

Unfortunately, at this point they had wandered outside the shop and one of the falling dogs hit Frodo on the head.

Fortunately Frodo has a very hard head so no damage was done.

Unfortunately, the dog sued Frodo.

Fortunately, Frodo had a very good lawyer, and won the case.

Unfortunately, it turned out that the dog was actually the alien-eating dog from earlier in the thread. (It just keeps coming back...)

Fortunately Frodo's lawyer (I almost typed liar :p) attacked the dog and Frodo escaped.

Unfortunately, Melkor was in another courtroom fighting his case for release from the void and saw Frodo. After Sauron had sent him 50,000 postcards from Mordor Melkor, of course, knew that Frodo had the ring, and so gave chase!