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Anthony Burgess

by RawkStah

"What's it going to be then, eh?"

There was me, that is Frodo, and my three droogs, that is Merry, Pippin, and Sam, Sam being really dim, and we sat in the Prancing Pony making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry. The Prancing Pony was a brewpub, and you may, O my brothers, have forgotten what these mestos were like, the age drawing to an end and everyone very quick to forget, balladeers not being heard much neither...

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"What's it going to be then, eh?"

I take it up now, and this is the real weepy and like tragic part of the story beginning, my brothers and only friends, in Mordor. You will have little desire to slooshy all the cally and horrible raskazz of the shock that sent Gimli beating his bruised and krovvy rookers against unfair like Bog in the Grey Havens, and Legolas squaring his rot for owwwww owwwww owwwww in his indignant grief at the Ringbearer and only son of the Shire like letting everybody down real horrorshow...

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"hat's it going to be then, eh?"

That, my brothers, was me asking myself the next moorning, standing outside the cracks of Mount Doom, in my platties of Mithril of two years back in the grey light of dawn, with a malenky bit of a bag with my Sting in and a bit of cutter taken from the vonny Orcs to like start me off in my new life.

The rest of the day before had been very tiring, what with having my finger bitten of by Gollum and the One Ring being cast into the fires and me folding up in the face of ultra-violence and all that embarrassing cal...

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But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and all the stars and the old Luna up there and your old droog Frodo all on the road going ever onandonandon. And all that cal...