Charles Louis Richter: rejected titles for the Lord of the Rings musical: ERIADOR! THE RINGWRAITH OF THE OPERA THE GONDOR KING SHIRE BOYS THE BOOK OF WESTMARCH BRANDYWINE MEMOIRS HELLO, GOLLUM! THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN ROHAN ORCS HOW TO WALK INTO MORDOR WITHOUT REALLY TRYING SPAMON AMARTH THE WIZ

rejected titles for the Lord of the Rings musical: ERIADOR! THE RINGWRAITH OF THE OPERA THE GONDOR KING SHIRE BOYS THE BOOK OF WESTMARCH BRANDYWINE MEMOIRS HELLO, GOLLUM! THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN ROHAN ORCS HOW TO WALK INTO MORDOR WITHOUT REALLY TRYING SPAMON AMARTH THE WIZ

Sometimes people refuse to believe me when I tell them that I saw the Lord of the Rings musical in London. Not the part about my having seen it. The part about its having existed.

It just occurred to me that by the end of the first volume, with the loss of Boromir and Gandalf and the subsequent party split, part of the Fellowship has gone from 9 TO 5

FRODO BAGGINS SUPERSTAR

A LITTLE WIGHT MUSIC

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Aragorn Get Your Sword

*ahem* Gandalf Superstar

SOMETHING FUNNY HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO DESTROY THE ONE RING IN THE FIREY DEPTHS OF MOUNT DOOM

THE BOOK OF MORGOTH

THE BOOK OF SAURON, surely.

Wow. You win. That's brilliant.

Jesus Christ that's good

It's even more amazing in Technicolor

ORCLAHOMA

dammit

Beautiful.

🥇

Magnificent.

Rap musical about how a character that no one thinks about is crucial to the narrative: HAMGAMGEE

It's Springtime for Sauron in Mor-dor!

SAURUMAN TURN OFF THE DARK.

Ugh, just made the same joke w/o seeing yours, now I gotta delete. We need a Bluesky automated joke anti-plagiarism feature.

MISS SAIGOL / MISS SMÉAGOL

The Book of Mordor

On A Clear Day Your Elf-Eyes Can See Forever

ORTHANCLAHOMA! OH, MORIA! NO NO NECROMANCER SISTER ACT 2: BACK IN THE HOBBIT

Seven Elves for Seven Hobbitses

LES NUMENOREANS

LEGALLY ELROND LITTLE HOUSE OF HOBBITS SAMILTON ENT (featuring the song Seasons of Leaves) PIPPIN AND THE ANGY ENT

Something Funny Happened On The Way To Mordor

I'll admit that I'm looking forward to the spinoff streaming movie "HAM FAST, HAM FURIOUS"

Answered a generation ago. RIP the creator of this classic mashup.

taking the hobbits to isengardyoutu.be THEY"RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD(not my work)

Curse you. This’ll be in my head all day.

Merry Pippins StoryElf Side

How in the hell did that spin around from Elf Side Story?

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Mordor

Ringwraith on the Roof

LITTLE SHOP OF BALROGS

SARUMAN THE WHITE, THE DEMON WIZARD OF ORTHANC

STOP MIDDLE EARTH, I WANT TO GET OFF

SOMETHING WORSTED THIS WAY COMES

GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR TOM BOMBADIL

New entries after a collab with my lady wife: RETURN OF THE KING AND I THE SOUND OF ELVISH

NINE RINGWRAITHS FOR NINE FELLOWS

don't cry for me, minas tirith

Pippin

THE RING AND EYE RINGIN' IN THE REIGN RIDDLER ON THE ROUTE MEN AND ELVES MANY RING WOES BRIDGE A' DOOM THE MUSIC (of the Ainur) MAN (a traveling con artist comes to town...Halbrand (Under)Hill?) MY FAIR LADY

The Ring and Eye and Bridge A'Doom are truly excellent but if I could add one note: BRIDGE OF 'DÛM

Agh! That's the one!

it's a collaborative workshopping process!

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Bloody Bloody Bilbo Baggins Bridges of Khazad-Dum County Gandalf, The Stranger and the Great Comet of the Late Second Age

Springtime for Sauron and Barad-dûr

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