How Lord of the Rings was written

[andrewducker]

Quite remarkably funny, especially if you're a gamer.

here

Comments

[original-aj.livejournal.com]

That's so realistic I can almost see the players....

[weetanya.livejournal.com]

/dies

that was just perfect.

[broin.livejournal.com]

"Gollum wasn't supposed to show up until the Black Gate, but whatever."

Hehe.

This is either why RPGs are an amazing artistic medium, or Tolkien's a fucking hack.

[andrewducker]

You mean they can't _both_ be true?

[broin.livejournal.com]

...

Yes. =)

[thefirethorn.livejournal.com]

AHHHHHHHHH!!!! It's ALL SO TRUE!!!

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Dear gods that was amazingly funny and also a great deal like some games I've been in.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

And then, of course, it needs:

The Silmarillion: GM turns out to have Aeon-long backstory that he wrote to back up the LoTR campaign but never showed anyone, and that players ruined, the bastards, but not appreciating the mythic structure of it all, they just ran around with big swords going "Take that, varlet!"