The ring bounced down the mountainside and rolled into a lembas factory. There it disappeared into one of a vast batch of magically delicious Keel-Gilad Elven Cookies. Rather then waste the whole batch, the elves stamped the boxes "Find the Ring and win a prize!" and sent them throughout Middle Earth.
Sadly, this particular recipe was not a hit with the public, and the Ring languished for thousands of years in "infinite shelf-life" oblivion...
'til one day, a particular hobbitish creature name Smeagol, coming down from a 3-day bender and having a really bad case of the munchies, wandered into a Gladden Field convienence store and grabbed the first thing he saw off the shelf...and the rest is history.
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Question: How did Saruman acquire Orthanc?
[ April 07, 2002: Message edited by: Birdland ]
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