Even though a few hundred years had passed,
TGEW was still nosy about her neighbour's affairs. She went for coffee with a friend, and told her how her weird neighbour was drawing a picture where
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Saruman of Many Colours directs his naked hobbit slave to show him the book of horses.
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Her friend,
Greenie, didn't believe the story. So she sneaked into her friend's neighbour's backyard, and snapped a picture of what was going on inside the house:
Scandalised herself, she sold the picture to the local newspaper. The editor in chief, the psychic
Oddwen, published it with the caption:
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As he is borne away in chains to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, Tiny David casts one last gaze upon his favorite possession, the Tan Book of Horsemarch.
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Meanwhile on the other side of the 'downs, there was a very bored wight named
Legate who was making a collage of newspaper clippings. This caption, he thought, went magnificently with a picture he may or may not have made himself in the long centuries of his wightish life:
Sally, who still thought he was a very profound thinker even though she had had a few centuries more to observe him, bought the collage from him, cut out this particular piece and framed it on her wall. She liked to tell her guests it depicted a scene where
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The ring wraiths carry a well-articulated statue to their lair.
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"That's not well-articulated!" protested
Rune when he visited, taking a pen and scribbling on a napkin. "This would be well-articulated!"
