OK, I did it - I gave the Steward of Minus Teeth an umbrella!
Here is that incongruous story element. I'm not sure whether I should thank all of you who mentioned that so often that I *had* to write it, or whether I should beg your pardon! I guess both, depending on your viewpoint on parody...
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth..
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