Most urgent request … to the Shire
Physicist and blogger Stephen Granade noted that opening chapters of “The Hobbit” made it clear that the character Thorin Oakenshield was running a scam. Granade expanded on that theme by imagining and creating a Nigerian scam letter as written by Thorin.
Dear MR BAGGINS, Fellow Conspirator,
I am Thorin Oakenshield, descendant of Thrain the Old and grandson of Thror who was King under the Mountain. I am writing you to discuss our plans, our ways, means, policy and devices for rescuing our treasure from the dragon Smaug.
During the reign of Thror our kingdom was a prosperous one. Kings used to send for our smiths, and reward even the least skillful most richly. Fathers would beg us to take their sons as apprentices, and pay us handsomely, especially in food-supplies, which we never bothered to grow or find for ourselves. Altogether those were good days for us, and the poorest of us had money to spend and to lend, and leisure to make beautiful things just for the fun of it, not to speak of the most marvellous and magical toys, the like of which is not to be found in the world now-a-days.
(via boingboing, with a hat tip to Robb Billy)
Don Mecoy
Business Writer
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That Robb Billy is a smart guy!