From Robert’s Time Capsule, Part 1


Robert, age 13 (yearbook photo)

One thing the papers emphatically show is what a Lord of the Rings fanatic I was–far, far worse than any Muser. I read The Hobbit in fifth grade and the trilogy every summer before six through eighth grades. (The Silmarillion and other books of Middle-earth lore didn’t start to come out until I was in college.) A couple of my friends were immersed in the books, too. We learned to write Tengwar and Angerthas, drew white hands and red eyes on our homework assignments, came within a hair’s breadth of inventing Dungeons and Dragons, and did all the other geeky things Musers would rediscover decades later. I also wrote a LOTR musical.

Well, not exactly a musical. There was no script–just a series of songs set to tunes that my friends knew and could sing along with. The songs were deliberately silly. As for the quality, judge for yourselves:

1. Elrond’s Song to the Council in Rivendell, Explaining What’s Going On
(To the tune of “Now I Am the Ruler of the Queen’s Na-vee” from H.M.S. Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan)

In days of old of which we sing
Sauron decided to make a ring.
He studied ancient books of lore
And he melted down the handle on the big front door.
(All: He melted down the handle on the big front door!)
He melted down the handle, and such was fate
That it turned into a mighty ring of power great.
(All: He melted down the handle and such was fate / That it turned into a mighty ring of power great!)

Eons later on the ca-len-dar,
The ring passed on to Is-il-dur.
Isildur battled for his life,
And he cut the ring off Sauron with a putty knife. (All: He cut, etc.)
Isildur took the ring in such an hour
That he thought that he would be endowed with endless power. (All: Isildur took the ring, etc.)

There were a few more verses, but I think that will do. Let’s see, what else have we got here… Oh, I’d forgotten all about this one:

2. Treebeard Meets Merry and Pippin and Tries to Figure Out What They Are
(To the tune of “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music)

First come the Eldar, the fairest of races;
Dwarves, metal-workers, with hair on their faces.
Animals of the air, water, and ground–
But “hobbits” is not a fa-mil-i-ar sound.

Are you a badger, or maybe a carrot?
Animal, veg’table, mineral, spirit?
Horse? No. Or pig? No. Or maybe a cow?
This I must find out, so come with me now!

(Chorus) To the Entmoot… I must take you.
Please do not ask why.
Hop up on my shoulder and hold yourself tight,
For if you fall off… you die!

O.K., what next? “Denethor’s Song” — more Gilbert and Sullivan, not very interesting. “We Are Pursuin’ an Orodruin” (to the tune of “I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover”) — didn’t get very far with that one, must have sensed it was a bad idea. Oh, this one’s fun:

3. Ringwraiths’ Song to Frodo and Sam Hiking to Mordor
(To the tune of “Parsely, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme” “Scarborough Fair” as sung by Simon and Garfunkel)

Are you going to Orodruin?
Orcs and trolls infest these hills.
Remember me to old Sau-ro-on.
He’s the master of our wills.

When he has you, you will squeal.
Orcs and trolls infest these hills.
He’ll feed you to Shelob for her next meal
Or be the master of your wills.

The orcs had the best numbers, though. For example:

4. The Uruk-hai Marching Song
(to the tune of the Marine Corps Hymn“The Caissons Go Rolling Along”)

Here we come, now you die,
We’re the fighting Uruk-hai
And our soldiers are marching along!
Rip and tear, maul and crush,
Slice our en-e-mies to mush
As our soldiers go marching along!
So it’s KILL! KILL! KILL!
It gives us such a thrill.
Our numbers, you know, are thousands strong.
And we just can’t wait
To maim and desecrate
As our soldiers come marching along!

Finally, there’s a big company number for orcs and Ringwraiths, to the tune of “Camptown Races” by Stephen Foster:

Ringwraiths: Minas Morgul, here we come.
Orcs: DOO DAH! DOO DAH!
Ringwraiths Mithrandir is just a bum.
Orcs: OH, DOO DAH DAY!
Ringwraiths: Sauron has a big red eye.
Orcs: DOO DAH! DOO DAH!
Ringwraiths He is screaming DIE DIE DIE.
Orcs: OH, DOO DAH DAY!
All: Gonna laugh and dance,
Gonna kill and sing.
I’ll bet my money on the Uruk-hai,
Somebody bet on the ring.

I know, I know: the Uruk-hai were Saruman’s troops, not Sauron’s. I just liked them.

That’s all the LOTR stuff. I’ve got tons of other material in the box, though, and plan to release it little by little whenever the blog gets slow. (Does that sound like a threat? Take it any way you like.)

Namárië for now,

–Robert

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120 Responses to From Robert’s Time Capsule, Part 1

  1. elassë~adael (agridulce) says:

    yay! ^_^ I read the Hobbit in the fifth grade too! I remember, upon opening my boxed set, I remarked “why is one not labled with a number and the others labled one through three?” (I got it as a present by the way)

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  2. †FrigidSymphony† With Odin On Our Sides, Our Souls Burning With Pride says:

    Robert. That’s some seriously cheesy fantasy material you got there. You MUST get into contact with Tobias Sammett and turn it into a metal opera. If you don’t know Tobias Sammett is, look him up.

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  3. The Insane Blue Sage says:

    that is very scary, it sounds like the stuff that me and my deranged friends sing at lunch. my english teacher is obsessed with LOTR. (our textbook is the fellowship of the ring) :)

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  4. JohnnyVern says:

    i read the hobbit in second grade, skipped the fellowship and read 2&3 in the third grade.

    p.s. me and my friend are making a lego lotr movie and its pretty funny/stupid. Right now were starting on the third book and its already 2 hours long.

    p.p.s. i tried to read the fellowship in 4th grade but it was to boring for me

    p.p.p.s. the hobbit is my favorite.

    p.p.p.p.s. if u havnt realized by now im copying all the p.s. ‘s that were in Gandalf’s letter to Frodo.

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  5. JohnnyVern says:

    i just figured out how to do this. lets see if it works.
    :arrow: :mrgreen: 8O :lol:
    [a]this should be green if i did it right[/a]

    p.s. i like the Captown races parody

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  6. ☺Kiki the Great☺ says:

    Robert, you are officially deranged. Or were. It was my idea for a time capsule, just not yours.

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  7. lady of the broom cupboard says:

    3….deranged friends huh
    i have some of those ya we just mess around
    at lunch all the time its really fun sometimes it gets a little crazy y am i posting this i dont know

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  8. JohnnyVern says:

    what’s an angle bracket? hi kiki

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  9. Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas says:

    *attempts straight face*
    Oh.
    *bursts out laughing maniacally, and many other Musers join*
    *turns purple, gasps for breath*
    No, but seriously, I am quite happy to know we are not the first generation of loonies who also may be geniuses. Seems as though if it weren’t for these early-on obsessions, we wouldn’t have ever known Robert, thus never having the same Muse, thus never having MuseBlog. It’s all a pattern of events.

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  10. lady of the broom cupboard says:

    [a] is this how you make stuff green [a]
    o i love to make up songs its funny cause me and my friend make up wierd blues songs which end up cracking up at the end of cause we cant find anything to rhyme with that makes sense
    robert i love your songs they are so hilarious
    especially the last one

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  11. The Insane Blue Sage says:

    The songs are funny, but it still painfully rerminds me of my derange frieds.

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  12. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    (10) Obsessions? You want obsessions? Wait till you see some of the other things I drag out of that box. And I’m pretty sure it’s not the only box.

    (11) Why “painfully”? Being deranged doesn’t hurt.

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  13. HMOTT says:

    that last one was awesome!

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  14. HMOTT says:

    the last song, i mean.

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  15. Prarilius Canix says:

    Is anybody here a poet? I am.

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  16. elassë~adael (bitterrose) says:

    15- go to Poems and Songs. just search for “poems” in the search box thingie.

    ah, the wonders of looking through old boxes.

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  17. Rebecca Lasley (Administrator) says:

    I feel so deprived. I didn’t even know LOTR existed until high school and never (knowingly) met another Tolkien fan until college. Most of my teenage poetry was severely dark and angst-ridden and melodramatic, especially the light verse.

    In fifth and sixth grade I lived in a city that defied all efforts to make it join the 20th-century, so I missed out on most anything written after 1850, even though as assistant to the librarian, I had full run of the collection. I don’t remember the floor plan of my house all that well, but I can still tell you the location of just about every volume in the school library — and describe the book cover. One book really bothered me. It was called A Boy’s King Arthur, and I couldn’t figure out why it would be any different from the regular one. And where was the girl’s version? I wondered but didn’t dare ask.

    But I did dream of being a pirate and a knight and learned copious amounts of trivia regarding armour and mediaeval instruments of torture, so my childhood was not a total loss.

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  18. korrora says:

    I seriously miss my lunch pperiod now. I can’t get all crazy during wind ensemble, now can I?

    I read the Trilogy in about 2 weeks. Then I got The Hobbit for Chrismas and read it in a few days. Then read it again. Then i foud The Sillmarilion(?) and couldn’t read it. -boring- I tried again a year later.-excruciatingly boring- i gave up and read some Asimov…

    I’ve seen the movies. They got them all wrong!

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  19. Julieb says:

    As I’ve admitted before, I have never been able to read LOTR. However, I still thing the last one, what was it, whatever, the camptown races one was pretty funny.

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  20. curious and questioning says:

    I read the hobbit a few years ago but got stuck in the middle of Fellowship. Still stuck. It’s boring.

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  21. Julieb says:

    Oh, and nice photo.

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  22. Tough Cookie says:

    Whoa. Maybe you should digitally fix that picture up a bit.

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  23. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    What improvements would you recommend?

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  24. emmatheduck says:

    I don’t read LOTR so i can’t judge them very well, but i do have one correction:you say that one of those songs is to the tune of “parsely, sage, rosemary and thyme” and i do know that song but it’s actually called Scarborough Fair even though a lot of peopple call it parsely sage rosemary and thyme.

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  25. Ebeth the Stalker says:

    you are my HERO!

    My fav would have to be the Uruk-Hai song. XD

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  26. Queen J. of Kiador on Haskamir, Kokomando and Der Wachtelschlag Fliegender, Juliette RWSOC8042 says:

    My god. Nerdiness to the max. Great picture, though. As you have probably guessed, I read Hobbit and the trilly, but not Silly and the Unfinshed and all that stuff. Unreadable, in my opinion.

    I liked all your songs. In particular Treebeard’s.

    When I was seven, I wrote a song for Willis (from Heinlein’s Red Planet). It was to the tune of-well, it doesn’t really matter. I was proud of it ‘cos I mentioned autopsies, giant cabbages, narcotics, and yeast in the same verse, and I thought that was actually pretty good. Oh, and I made fun of Jim ‘cos Frank is hotter.

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  27. Zyviva, Queen of Pie and Hyperness says:

    i like the urak-hai marching song. i am sure the other songs contain jokes that i don’t get at all having never gotten past the first book of LOTR.

    i like singing strange songs at lunch though. my friends and i found this song in a book and proceeded to sing it

    oh woe is me
    oh woe is me
    i used to have a hamster tree
    but it was eaten by a newt
    and now i have no cudly fruit
    oh woe is me
    oh woe is me
    i used to have a hamster tree

    we also have created ultiple paradies of “Carrying the Banner” (from the movie Newsies)
    it got to the poitn were one person would say the fiirst line as a charachter (i.e. vampires) and the otherss would adlib the rest of the song/ first few verses in that charachter.

    good times, good times.

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  28. Jadestone says:

    Shweet! I’m going to compile all this into an email and forward it to the world! Whee! Well, at least to my LOTR-loving friend. :)

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  29. Phoenix says:

    Oh…my…gosh! That was soooo funny…
    Can I sing the songs, pretty please? I especially love the Entwash and the Marching Song.
    Zyviva: That’s my chumash…

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  30. emogrl //_^ says:

    #15: Oh oh you’re a poet + you know it.

    Yeah, I have a really lame sense of humour. :razz:

    *Sees your picture*
    …Awwwwwwwwww!
    *Your ears turn a bit pink*
    *Reads the songs*
    *Giggle*…Heh heh. I don’t know anything about LOTR, *Dodges a few pies* but I still think they’re hilarious.

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  31. emogrl //_^ says:

    Oh…It’s probably obvious, but I’m referring to Robert in the third line of my last post.

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  32. elassë~adael (bitterrose) says:

    27- joins in the singing

    “oh woe is me
    oh woe is me
    I used to have a hampster tree
    but it was eaten by a newt
    and now I have no cuddly fruit
    oh woe is me
    oh woe is me
    I used to have a hampster tree!”

    and that was typed from memory, not copy pasted from Zyviva’s post That lovely song is, by the way, from Abarat and to the tune of tannenbaum/oh christmas tree. I love Abarat!

    I bought so many tolkien books. I first read the Hobbit in 5th grade, read each book before it’s respective movie came out, finished the two towers during the 2002 super bowl (I’d read throughout the football and watch the commercials. Hey, the commercials are funny! and my whole family used to watch it together. not that I actually watched any of it. Back then I was really good at ignoring football) started learning Elvish, could never tell Quenya and Sindarin appart, own a bracelet with elvish writing on it (it’s a rather pretty bracelet; I’ve yet to translate the writting to see if it actually means anything…) own a white tree of Gondor t-shirt. I was thirteen when the LotR issue came out, had recently (finally!) finished the books and began posting on the Gaboomba. I was dubbed Bill the Pony by a tolkien class which I visited every day for a week. (I was Bill the pony because there were nine of them and bill’s sort of part of the fellowship for a bit) I couldn’t actually take the class as I was going away to Spanish camp for a month. So that’s my Tolkien story.

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  33. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    (24) True. If I remember correctly, the album lists it as “Scarborough Fair/Canticle” because there’s another song intertwined with part of it.

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  34. Kuai Zi Angel Pentatonikk says:

    23 (OEAD)- A moustache.

    I wonder if Cedar (our apparent resident filmmaker) would be willing to take on another project? A LotR Museical. It has a nice ring to it.

    The songs are marvellously spiffy. Me gustan mucho.

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  35. FantasyFan?!?! says:

    It took me years to finish the whole LotR series. Because of that, I dont realy remember the series all that well. I liked The Hobbit, though. The songs are….interesting. I dont know the tunes to any of these songs, but they still sound pretty cool…. in a weird way.

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  36. Zyviva, Queen of Pie and Hyperness says:

    phoenix- you’ll steal anudda

    35- of caurse in a weird way. if it wasn’t weird and/or crazy, it wouldn’t be MB material

    i just cab down wib a cold.
    bleh.
    *uses three tissue boxes in about three secionds*

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  37. Phoenix says:

    Zyviva–hey bummas, we got stuff ta learn.

    Sorry about the cold.

    32 (A~E)–in my school a select group of girls became obsessed with that song. We called ourselves the Sisterhood of the Hamster Tree, and we sang it every two seconds and really frosted people’s shorts.

    I FORGOT MY FRENCH HOMEWORK AT SCHOOL!!! AAAAAHHH! It isn’t due ’till Tuesday, but there is TONS of it and I don’t want to do it all on one day. Ugh. I’d better go prep for other upcoming assignments so I actually have time to do everything.

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  38. Taiwan Hippo Fan says:

    Robert, you looked like someone at my school.

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  39. Queenie, Kokomando and Der Wachtelschlag Fliegender, Juliette RWSOC8042 says:

    May I just say that I just put “Write An Aria for Treebeard That Contains Yiddish Slang” on my list of Things To Do Before I’m 30.

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  40. elassë~adael (bitterrose) says:

    34- Queenie J is doing that.
    39- post it here when you are done

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  41. Zallie says:

    Awwww, little geeky Robert! That’s pretty cute.

    I’m pretty sure I was equally geeky about LotR, when I was 12/11/10, though. I learnt how to write in tengwar, with only some success ( I can still write my name!) and read the books about a million times over. I think once I read all three within a week, on a dare from some obnoxious kid. Wow, I feel so old now. :P

    I should re-read those books again.

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  42. Taiwan Hippo Fan says:

    You really were obsessed with LOTR, weren’t you? I like the poems, though. w00t!

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  43. Julieb says:

    Ziviva-Sorry about the cold. Speaking of digging up old stuff, where’s that pamphlet I made on the common cold in 7th grade. Ah, here it is. Oh My God. The cover actually says (and I got 100% on this project) The Common Cold: Everything you’ll ever need to know about the most common disease in the history of the world and some things you probably won’t ever need to know. I am getting the strong feeling I resented this project(even though I got to use the phrase “A quartet of corona viruses”)

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  44. Julieb says:

    BTW, the muse article helped A LOT on this project.

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  45. Zyviva, Queen of Pie and Hyperness says:

    43- i hate forced progects.
    in seventh grade my teacher decided to have us do a progect on an ilness we all worked really hard on it for aboaut three days, except it was never due. its annoying.

    HYPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    PIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    *pies all LOTR fans for wasting there time when they could be reading something useful like the foundation triligoy by isaac asimov or the belgariad by david & leigh eddings*

    *is pied by 99% of mbers in return*

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  46. Sweet Melpomene says:

    Robert, I just died laughing.

    I liked part two the best.

    My sister enjoyed singing them. She said she’d hug you if she ever met you. I still can’t get her to post here, yet, though…

    12- DUDE! Drag them out!!!!!!

    I must find the Silmarillion.

    32- YAY! When does the next one come out?

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  47. Eliane Sun-Child says:

    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
    that was hilarious. that was just awesome. omg. wow. thank god i was never that far gone. i did watch all 3 movies in a row one day last summer . . . that was fuuuuuuun. okay, um, maybe we shouldn’t really get into all the obsessive LOTR things ive done over the years . . . wed be here like all night . . . but i never wrote any songs.

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  48. emmatheduck says:

    33-That’s right, though you didn’t write words to the canticle so it should it’s just Scarborough Fair in this case.

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  49. Otzi says:

    HAHAHAHAHA—*notices GAPA glaring* COUGHCOUGHCOUGHCOUGHCOUGHCOUGHCOUGH. Cough. Ahem.
    You should post the GAPA reunion picture next to the middle school picture.

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  50. elassë~adael (bitterrose) says:

    46- you mean the next Abarat book? I don’t think there is a date yet. I hope it’s soon though!

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  51. JohnnyVern says:

    [a]is this green? i hope so[/a]
    wow this thread took off!
    the capmtown races is still my favorite

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  52. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    It’s a stirring image, isn’t it–all those orcs shaking their fists and shouting “DOO DAH! DOO DAH!” ?

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  53. Ebeth the Stalker says:

    They’d probably sing falsetto. Higher than leo i bet. That’s pretty high, for those of you who don’t know leo (that’d be everybody here…)

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  54. Ötzi says:

    They would need to be wearing little bows on thier helmets…

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  55. dark lord of darkness says:

    i like the pinafore one. i liked that play a lot.
    that picture is scary….

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  56. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    Well, that was when I was still getting military haircuts. My father was in the Navy, and barbers on the base were a lot cheaper. When I was 14, though, one of them cut my hair so badly that I refused to go back, EVER. I probably looked considerably less scary after that.

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  57. Emiliana the bored person who is procrastinating on her homework says:

    wow that’s great robert!

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  58. lady of the broom cupboard says:

    m y friends are getting really annoyed since ive been singing the song to camptown races

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  59. JohnnyVern says:

    52
    it is im gonna have to use that song in my movie

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  60. JohnnyVern says:

    if u say its ok of course

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  61. Queenie, Kokomando and Der Wachtelschlag Fliegender, Juliette RWSOC8042 says:

    34-I have one about 3/4 finished-it’s been neglected for a long time. It stars people like Celebrian, Morbid, and Duncan_Quagmire (Musers I grew up with who don’t post regularly anymore). I am the most experienced Museblogger still regularly posting, in a tie with Alise~Adae. Uh, yeah. I’m old! Like the CRYPTKEEPER!

    Sorry. Big digression there. I’ll post one if you want to see it.

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  62. Ebeth the Stalker says:

    I thought you were doing the muse-ical, not a lotr musical. or both? or not? whatev. *points and laffs* haha, i’m gonna call you granny. XD jk, i love you queenie. Don’t mind me, i’m really hyper. Night all.

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  63. Common Loon says:

    That was hilarious!!! You were so creative! You were so inventive! You were so…deranged? I love it!

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  64. elassë~adael (bitterrose) says:

    61- does it star me too? gen 0!

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  65. Phoenix says:

    61 and 64–waaah! I WOULD have been gen 0 if my parents hadn’t lurked the sight for three weeks making sure it was safe, by which time Museblog had set up. Not that I’m sorry for Museblog, needless to say. I’m just, I think, the fourth oldest blogger here and annoyed that I could have been gen 0…*sniff*

    I want to teach the orc marching song to peepols and have everyone sing it at the top of thier lungs in public. Fuuuuun…

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  66. Queenie J, Queen Julietaini the Flamablamablous and Fr00dy of Kiador, Kokomando and Der Wachtelschlag Fliegender, Juliette RWSOC8042 says:

    64-You’re in it! I still call you Alise~Adae, have you noticed? And people still call me Juliette R., so that’s okay.

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  67. The Insane Blue Sage says:

    Congradulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    You now have my deranged friends singing these songs at lunch. people are starting to look at us really weird. I don’t know why tho.

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  68. Rosanne Spector (Administrator) says:

    Robert,
    These are hilarious!!! Did you realize that you were a comic genius at the time?

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  69. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    I just knew that I was having fun.

    There’s more.

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  70. Rosanne Spector (Administrator) says:

    yikes

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  71. elassë~adael (alise~adae) says:

    65- Pheonix, I herby dub you an honorary gen 0 ’cause you’re spiffy enough. (as long as Queenie J. or another gen 0 seconds it)

    64- yes, Queen Julietaini of Kiador (Juliette R.) and I still go by Alise Adae. not so much here as elsewhere.

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  72. †FrigidSymphony† With Odin On Our Sides, Our Souls Burning With Pride says:

    Robert, go look up Tobias Sammett. Honestly.

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  73. Queenie J, Queen Julietaini the Flamablamablous and Fr00dy of Kiador, Kokomando and Der Wachtelschlag Fliegender, Juliette RWSOC8042 says:

    70-Gotta agree there.

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  74. kt the gr8 :) says:

    whos tobias s??? really dudes stop talking about stuff i dont know!!!
    stop pleez

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  75. JohnnyVern says:

    robert can i use some of your songs in my cheesy lego LOTR movie that me and my friend are making?

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  76. †FrigidSymphony† With Odin On Our Sides, Our Souls Burning With Pride says:

    74: look it up.

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  77. A Dijinn says:

    Oh when those Orks,
    come storming in,
    Oh when those Okcs come storming in,
    Oh how I long to flee from the number,
    Oh when those Orks come storming in.
    .
    .
    .
    oh and jv, this is how you type in green.
    use the comma period shift keys, DUH!

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  78. JohnnyVern says:

    :[a]please be in green pleeeeaaaaseee.[/a]:

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  79. A Dijinn says:

    use the period and comma shift keys!
    these might show up
    {..]

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  80. Tyler L. says:

    I like the Orc song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  81. Prarilius Canix says:

    Three pens for the Writer ken scribbling on pages,
    Seven for the Editors, those who know best,
    Nine for the singing Muses, down through the ages,
    One for the Muse Cartoonist at his dark desk.
    One pen to draw them all, One pen to sketch them,
    One pen to ink them all and from the paper catch them,
    In the heart of Musery where the shadows lie.

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  82. Lilbro the Tyrannical Dictator of HPB land says:

    *cackles*

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  83. Capricious the great and terrible says:

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA I dunno why, but I find this EXTREmely funny. Tis probably becuase my mom and I where going through our old stuff, and we found stuff and pictures from when my grandfather was a kid! lololololololol!!!!!!!!!

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  84. emeralda7 says:

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! minas morgul, here we come, doo dah, doo dah, That is so funny! You were a lord of the rings fanatic.

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  85. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    I went back and forth on that first line a bit. At first I wrote “Minas Tirith here we come,” intending it for the scene in which the Witch King and his minions march out to conquer Gondor. But my buddy David said no, that was too specific: the song would work better on its own if it referred to the Ringwraiths’ heaquarters, Minas Morgul. So I changed it.

    Now, having seen the great marching-out scene in the movie version of The Return of the King, I think my dramatic instincts were right. It should be Minas Tirith, and you may sing it that way if you like. But “Minas Morgul” has that nice mouth-filling alliteration, and it’s been that way for more than 30 years, so that’s the version I posted here.

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  86. JohnnyVern says:

    i actually like minas morgul better because they both start with “m”
    and it has a certain “ring” to it. (no pun intended. Seriously, i didnt mean that as a pun.)

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  87. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    The M-M thing is the alliteration I was talking about. And it’s true that “Morgul” is fun to sing. I’m happy with the Morgul version.

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  88. Ötzi says:

    Aah, yes. Time capsules. Let me just…
    *shuffles around in room that is essentially bookshelves, desk, windows and stacks of paper, with computer and bed wedged in as an afterthought*

    hmmmm…

    *chuckle* there were some very funny things going through my mind….

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  89. JohnnyVern says:

    this is off topic but did u know that the guy who sings the Grinch song for the movie is the actor who played Darth Vader?
    p.s. i like legolas the best in the games

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  90. A Dijinn says:

    Is there an elvish thread? if not can you make one please robert?
    the thread seems to have slowed down.

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  91. FrigidSymphony We Came, We Saw, We Conquered You All, We Came, We Saw, We Live By The Sword! says:

    89: James Earl Jones?

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  92. JohnnyVern says:

    yes

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  93. Darth Yoda says:

    I just choked on my bagel. I have to be more careful about which threads i open

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  94. JohnnyVern says:

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    too many threads dieing to fast. can’t take it,…. must do something but…………………………

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  95. Alice says:

    LOL! No, literally. (Well, not quite, but close.) I don’t say that very often, so when I do say it, I mean it.
    The closest I came to doing that sort of thing was when me and my sister dressed up Playmobil (little plastic people made in Germany, if you didn’t know), and tried to make the Fellowship. Having failed in that (sort of), we then atempted to write an fake newspaper article in which the Fellowship of the Ring came to some city/town/island. It was sort of fun. Embarassingly enough, it was only a couple of months ago.
    GAPAs, what is your e-mail adress? I can send you the picture of the Playmobil fellowship and you can post it here.

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  96. Rebecca Lasley (Administrator) says:

    (95) Alice, you can email us at gapa @ musefanpage.com (but leave out the spaces, of course).

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  97. Alice says:

    Okay. I’ll have to find the pictures first, of course.

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  98. Alice says:

    Sent it!

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  99. Alice says:

    27- Not just ANY book, Abarat. And I love that song.
    Robert, do I have permission to show this to my dad? I think he’d crack up. My uncle too. *thinks* But my dad more.

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  100. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    Sure, bring ’em aboard.

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  101. Ebeth The Ubiquitous Übër says:

    AAAAH i remember this

    sorry, haven’t looked at this for a while. Good times! w00t GAPA!

    btw, it says part 1. When’s part 2??? :D

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  102. Alice says:

    101- I wish I knew…

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  103. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    (95),

    Here is Alice’s Playmobil picture:

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  104. Alice says:

    Yes, that’s what I do in my spare time. Embarrassing, no? And I can’t even remember who’s who. We had a lot of trouble with Gimli, since he’s not as small as a hobbit and nd not as big as a man. I think we went with the stouter one, but we couldn’t find any brown hair. So he’s blond. :oops:

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  105. purplefinch says:

    I used to love playmobil! My brother, I think, has the Robin Hood guy, with red hair. Sometimes we played for hours, but then we always got into arguments…

    The picture is very creative!!

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  106. Alice says:

    105- You too? My sister and I need only the least provocation to get into a fight. We used to have huge towns and cities and farms that took up our entire activity center (what we called our playroom-thingy.)
    I can’t really play anymore, I’ve forgotten how and it always seems awkward and boring, but sometimes I still do set-ups, when I’m feeling nice. Or I help my sister organize them. At the time of that picture, I was reading The Fellowship of the Ring and positively obsessed, so I thought, why not?

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  107. FrigidSymphony says:

    why is gandalf brown?

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  108. Alice says:

    107- The Bias Hunters were out to get us! Just kidding. Because none of our other wizards were even remotely suitable. Or maybe we couldn’t find them… I don’t know. There are many other inaccuracies as well.

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  109. Fox With Drops of Rubies says:

    *backs away …..slowly…..* Wow. The GAPAs are SCARY.

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  110. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    There’s more.

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  111. Fox With Drops of Rubies says:

    Why am I not surprised?

    I might woarn you that we Musers are all dark and scary. To some extent. Me, possibly, more than others.

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  112. C++darkmage says:

    OH? you come close to inventing D&D!!!! COOOLLLL!!!! IWANTONE!!!! (just something i say.) i like the songs.

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  113. MissSwann2223 has decided not to change her name says:

    I have eight of those playmobildudes!

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  114. Beavo the Online Stalker Spy says:

    Gapas=scary

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  115. Red-tailed HAWK says:

    Heheh! Yup! :twisted: / ;)

    Red-tailed HAWK :D :D :D

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  116. Ź√Ҳ says:

    no, there were Uruk-Hai in (0)’s troops as well………….

    ZVX, :-D :-D :-D

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  117. Cat's Meow and Aume says:

    Wow. Old thread.

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  118. Midnight Fiddler (she of the 2 spdzk and 100 piepoints) says:

    This is hilarious! Robert, that’s a great picture of you at 13!! :lol:
    I wonder what MB would be like if it was around when you were a kid….scary thought. ;)

    I have a few of those playmobil things too! I don’t even know where they came from, but I had (have?) a dollhouse for them with furniture, and people, etc. I wonder if it’s still in the barn, hmm……

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  119. You know, it’s about time I dug into my storage box and posted another time capsule. I haven’t found the maps and pictures I was looking for, but I can type in some excerpts from a couple of stories…

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  120. ♪ Syllabub ♫ says:

    This thread is also still open. I love the songs Robert!! I wish I could write songs, we have to in music….

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