Sillybean

January 14, 2004

Lines from The Lord of the Rings which can be improved by substituting “pants”

Apparently I’m eight too, 3jane, because I thought this was funny as hell:

Even the smallest pants can change the course of the future.

Life in the wide world goes on much as it has these past age, full of its own comings and goings, scarcely aware of the existence of pants… for which I am very thankful.

Not idly do the pants of Lorien fall.

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