After seeing what Roshigoth did with my Tolkien challenge, and seeing Ghosts enthusiasm towards it, I thought id give you all a chance. The challenge is to create a tolkien based image, any of his books will do. Of course, if you havent read the hobbit, you probably will have a hard time. As for requirements, im not too picky, any program you want and feel free to do touch up work, one self created model, yeah, thats just about it. Cept for this time, its open to anyone who wants to try. Good luck. Tempest

A pic of Bilbo and Gollum plying each other with riddles would be really good.

I am working on the Monty Python one so I can get to this one ... Waves, wishing for more hours in the day and the ability to stay awake for them

::shuddering:: Reading Monty Python in a thread RE: Tolkein brought back memories of National Lampoon's Bored of the Rings and nightmares of someone doing Goodgulf vs. the Ballhog... (And now I'm wondering who out there even knows what I'm talking about)

not me

or me.

LOL; back in the early seventies, National Lampoon (once [and possibly still, but I haven't seen it] a magazine, more recently the purveyors of several mediocre Chevy Chase movies) published a parody of The Lord of the Rings; about as funny as the Vacation movies... One of the big scenes was the fight between the Gandalf parody (Goodgulf the Magician) and the balrog parody (the Ballhog)...

I read it! I have it right here. Hillarious stuff, in my opinion. I remember that particular scene.. I've actually read the book about 3 times.... and I've only read the lord of the rings books once each... (of course, Bored's only about 100 pages, while Lord's 3 books, as well as Tolkein's dragging style of writing that makes it seem twice as long...) Personally, my favorite bit in the book's the beginning when they totally bash the Boggies (Hobbit parodies). =) Rosh