NOTE FROM GREG:

At least 2000 people will be traveling to Toronto this
December for “The Gathering of the Fellowship,” a
convention celebrating the work of author J.R.R. Tolkien.

The Top 9 Pickup Lines
Overheard At A Tolkein Convention

9> Well, big boy, I guess there’s no riddle about what’s in your pocketsess.

8> You wanna see my script treatment? It was rejected by Mr. Jackson *himself*!!

7> I would very much like to explore your hobbit hole.

6> The one ring isn’t the only thing that wants to bind you in the darkness, baby.

5> How about we go back to my hobbit hole and you can show me your Misty Mountains?

4> Just call me Treebeard, because you got me sporting major wood.

3> If I said, “Elen sila lumenn omentielvo — pedo mellon a minno,” would you hold it against me?

2> Check it out: I’ve been putting Rogaine on my feet.

and the Number 1 Pickup Line Overheard At A Tolkein Convention…

1> Come on up to my hotel room, and I’ll show you my vibrating Bilbo.

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Credits:

Selected from 34 submissions from 9 contributors.
Today’s Top 5 List authors are:

Larry Hollister, Concord, CA — 1 (Woohoo!)
Blake Taylor, Ogden, UT — 2, RU list name
Slick Sharkey, Miami, FL — 3
Brad Wilkerson, El Sobrante, CA — 4, 5
Arthur Levesque, Laurel, MD — 6
Dave Oberhart, Durham, NC — 7, 9
Mary Ann McDonald, Sacramento, CA — 8, HM list name
Greg Preece, Toronto, Canada — Dark Lord of the Sith