Making Fun Of It

[purplefluffychainsaw]

**Runs upstairs, and retreats with literally more books then she can carry.** Right...

Terry Pratchet, Moving pictures. You forgot A)

Ridcully the Brown!

"...Knows what the wind is saying, we shouldn't wonder. Got a name for all the trees, you can bank on it. Speaks to birds, too..."

And...


Balgrogs! (Tee hee hee)

"What's a balgrog?" said Victor.... "...tradional evil monster..."

..." With wings on" That made me laugh...

And, yes, all my stuff on the Sword of Shannara. I got... **Flicks lazily through the pages** About one chapter in, before an alarm bell was going off in my head saying: "LotR alike, LotR alike!" And guess what they have the cheek to put on the back.... "Will be the biggest cult book since Tolkien" ARG! Oh, and I would of said that Flick is basically Sam.... Maybe Sam with a little bit of Merry and Pippin rolled in.

Hmmm... I think all my other points have ben made... **Looks at... books and thinks how she is going to get them back up stairs**

No! I have a book called Fleabag and the Ring of fire, which is basically LotR the other way round....

A (female) knight [Merry, Pippin, Boromir] sets out with a servant of the queen [Frodo] to find the queen's ring, becuase the person who finds it becomes king or queen, with the queens cat, Fleabag [Gandalf]. Along the way they met a thief [Aragorn] who, guess what, finds the ring. With help from the others.... There's other stuff along the way which scream LotR, too. Like, there's a mage-y guy who tries to force the knight to tell him where the ring is, becuase he believes she has it [Saruman]. And, the knight almost foils everything at one point, becuase she wants the ring [Boromir]. There *are* a couple of twists, and it *is* a good book, but oh well.

And look what I found! A whole page of LotR inspired music! Whee! Much-to-much to go through all of it though...
Here, look at it yourself.

Guess what? I have more to add! I was re-reading "Wee free men" last night, and I found this:

See their swords? They glow blue in the presence of lawyers.

I guess Mr. Pratchett really does like using Tolkien stuff in his works.

[Maeggaladiel]

For anyone who watches Mystery Science Theatre 3000--

MOVIE- The Screaming Skull (or something like that)
There is a knocking at the door below.
MIKE- Gandalf's down there banging on the door with a stick.

MOVIE- Yarg! Can't remember. Something about a guy being bitten by a radioactive bat. (Gotta hate those darn radioactive bats!)

CROW- (as bat guy) Oh, hey Gollum!

SOME OTHER MOVIE- Can't remember, except that I got all excited when I heard:

TOM- Hey, it's the balrog!

[HerenIstarion]

Funny, sure

I haven't read Wee Free Men as yet, so all the pleasure of finding out swords glowing in the presence of lawyers is still ahead of me

Good thing about balrogs, your basic monsters, too (how could I forgot!)

[Morsul the Dark]

nothing to add but this is a funny topic to share

[the guy who be short]

Well this isn't a parody but it seems the best place to put it. It's homage.

Anybody heard of the Animorphs? Those around my age, 16, should be familiar with them as a children's book about a group of kids who can turn into animals to battle evil aliens.

So, firstly the aliens are named Yeerks. They are named after the Yrch in Tolkien.

Various names resemble Tolkien names. Take Aximili-Esgarouth-Isthill, the middle and last name of whom resemble Esgaroth and Ithil respectively.

Finally, the chief protagonist's name? Jake Berenson.

[Kath]

There are so many nods to Tolkien in the Pratchett books that I think you'd have to sit down with a highlighter and a good week or so to spare to find them all!

It's nice though when you're flicking through and you find one. Makes you laugh all the harder because you know it.