What if "The Lord of the Rings" Had Been Written as "Chess"

Chess (London)

by emele

- One Night in Mordor

[THE HOBBIT]
MOUNT DOOM, Very Evil setting
And middle earth don't know that middle earth is getting
The creme de la creme of the evil world in a
Show with everything and a Balrog too

Time flies -- doesn't seem a minute
Since the Hobbiton shire had the hobbit boys in it
All change -- don't you know that when you
Play with Sauron there's no ordinary venue
It's Isengard -- or the Mines of Moria-- or Helm's Deep-- or --
or this place!

[FELLOWSHIP]
One night in Mordor and your world's a prison
The beasts are plenty but the ring ain't free
You'll find a demon in every golden chasm
And if you're lucky they will let you be
I can feel Gollum sneaking up on me

[THE HOBBIT]
One place's very like another
When you're fighting the Uruk-hai, brother

[FELLOWSHIP]
It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a sin
To be looking at the enemy, not looking at Eowyn

[THE HOBBIT]
Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town--

[FELLOWSHIP]
ladies, elves, warm, sweet
Some beautiful ones in Lothlorien to meet

[THE HOBBIT]
Get Aragon! You're talking to a hobbit!
Whose every move's among the smallest
I get my kicks from the one ring, sunshine

[FELLOWSHIP]
One night in Mordor makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Mordor and the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel Sauron walking next to me

[THE HOBBIT]
Barad-dûr's gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would
Ten thousand Uruk-hai, or a firey Balrog

And thank God I'm only watching the ring-- controlling it --

I don't see you guys rating
The kind of fate I'm contemplating
I'd let you hold it, I would invite you
But the power it wields would destroy not excite you

So you better go back to your woods, your shires, your stronghold
fortress --

[FELLOWSHIP]
One night in Mordor and your world's a prison
The beasts are plenty but the ring ain't free
You'll find a demon in every golden chasm
A little flesh, a little history
I can feel Gollum sneaking up on me

One night in Mordor makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Mordor and the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the ring taking over me.