A Few of My Favourite Things, Part I

One of the things I love about blogging is that I get to tell perfect strangers all about the things I love. Imagine trying to do that during a long flight, or sitting in the waiting room of the doctor’s office. The difference is that I don’t have a captive audience. This blog is more

A Balrog We Heard on High

Being a parody of, and sung to the tune of, “Angels We Have Heard on High” by James Chadwick. A Balrog we heard on highSo we tried to run from itGandalf urged us fools to flyAs he fell into the pit Moria!Aragorn said don’t gothrough Moria;Gandalf wouldn’t listen though Galadriel and CelebornWe met in LothlorienMithrandir

It Came Upon a Midnight Drear

Being a parody of “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” by Edmund Sears It came upon a midnight drearThat doom of AlhazredFrom ancient vaults beneath the seaTo rise as from the dead:“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh CthulhuR’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!“The world in frozen terror layTo hear the cry of Elder Things. Now through the cloven skies They come,With loathsome