Now that's out of the way...

[oloriel]

... here, have some funnies!

coppertone discovered this entertaining chart. You may need to know the Silmarillion to properly understand it, but if you just want to know how hilariously cruel to its characters that book is, the chart will be informative enough. Contains spoilers, obviously.
(No, I don't know why Orodreth is missing, either, unless they go with the version where Orodreth is Angrod's son, in which case I guess his absence is ok, seeing how Gil-galad isn't on there either. Also, it probably says a lot about me that I was going "Aw, where's Argon" before I went "Aw, where's Orodreth"...
For the non-Silm people: It is a STRANGE, STRANGE fandom full of STRANGE, STRANGE developments. In case you hadn't gathered that yet.
Don't ask me why it says "A quite lot of time passes". I don't know what's happening to English syntax these days.)

fileg, meanwhile, discovered a variety of new exciting IKEA offers over at CollegeHumor. Most of them I do not find terribly amusing, but the Tjardiis almost made me spit my tea at the poor computer. (I really should know better by now.)

Also via fileg, a short note on a test of the Hungarian emergency broadway system. This would not be funny if they hadn't, in order not to scare anyone by mentioning real places, decided to choose settings in Middle-earth. So if you were in Hungary and wondered what was up with the broadcasts about severe storm floods in Gondor, now you know.
(Also, like fileg, I love how it says "OMG DO NOT DISTRIBUTE" at the end of the article - right above all the handy "Share this on Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr/whatev" buttons... Perhaps it's a reverse psychology thing?)

Comments

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO, that chart's the funniest thing I've seen all week - I'm sitting here chortling like a stoned halfling ober it, while my non-fan friend explains to her sister, "See, there's this whole online culture about Lord of the Rings...."

....isn't there just. Eglerio!!!

[mirien.livejournal.com]

Giggling helplessly at that table, especially the Maglor bit.

[fileg.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the table! I will probably have to repost it!

[naurring.livejournal.com]

So wish I'd have been in Hungary that Wednesday. XD

That chart is just awsome, despite English weirdness. Silmarillion rocks!