One of my favourite things, ever, on this site was the series of brilliantly ridiculous entries to the "Dumbledore's death in the style
of..." competition. Despite valiant attempts by HP Lovecraft and JD Salinger, it was eventually won by Geoffrey Chaucer for the ingenious "The Poppynge of the Clogges".

So I was always going to love alternative versions of The Lord of the Rings, as detailed here.

Thanks go to the New Yorker for pointing me in its direction this morning: I particularly like Ernest Hemingway's version ("Frodo Baggins looked at the ring. The ring was round. It was a good ring") and PG Wodehouse's ("Blast! I say, bother! How can a chap overthrow the Dark Lord? I suppose I will have to delay my campaign.") But it's the middle of August, and we need more, I say, more! Can anyone do me a Geoffrey Willans? A JK Rowling? A Stephen King?