I’d like to film the tale Of The Lord Of The Rings And nothing is to help me Except Gandalf’s wizardry I liked to smoke a pipe Of Longbottom Leaf While Frodo’s in Torech Ungol And I safely in my bed Mr. Tolkien keeps riding On his flying chair To the distant corners of his realm He buys a fresh strong chair To get him everywhere But then the journey is too short Wish that someone put the tale Into a comic strip And nothing would be better Than Harold Foster’s pen Barad-dûr the vast fortress Could be a feast to him Or Strider and Minas Tirith Frodo is a hard nut to crack