Posted on 02/01/2015 10:35:45 AM PST by smokingfrog
Tolkien lore led a Texas boy to suspension after he brought his “one ring” to school.
Kermit Elementary School officials called it a threat when the 9-year-old boy, Aiden Steward, in a playful act of make-believe, told a classmate he could make him disappear with a ring forged in fictional Middle Earth’s Mount Doom.
“It sounded unbelievable,” the boy’s father, Jason Steward, told the Daily News. He insists his son “didn’t mean anything by it.”
The Stewards had just watched “The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies” days earlier, inspiring Aiden’s imagination and leading him to proclaim that he had in his possession the one ring to rule them all.
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ROFL That is a classic episode. The Jack-In-Box scene creep me out as a kid LOL
Hang onto yer hat.
you certainly wouldn’t want kids to use their imaginations would you....whatever happened to cowboys and Indians????oh wait a second, we used TOY GUNS in those games...no need for that level of violence!!!!....PATHETIC
I thought the rule was that Christianity wasn’t allowed. When did they start having problems with witchcraft?
FICTION...the concept here is make believe, Billy Batson used to say SHAZAM and become Captain Marvel and no one went to hell reading his comics...
Ha ha ha!
Nooooo that is so creepy LOL
BTTT
The kid could have wound up calling forth the fire-breathing Smaug and his grossly oversized carbon footprint which could have melted the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and drowned us all!!! The teacher was only being cautious! /sarcasm;)
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