[HairOfTheDog]

Is he really a habitual troll? - I was treating him cheerful naïveté!

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

Well, he had at least one identical post on an earlier thread that I know of, from yesterday or a few days ago, so it's not the first time he has posted this identical message. I'll post a link.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/841455/posts#5

ummmm... it's all make-believe!

My memory was off; it was about six days ago, not a couple of days ago, but the wording is very similar and the message identical. Whether there were earlier similar attempts at "humor" I do not know; I have not seen them.

Now, I have no problem with people making the occasional lame attempt at humor (we all have been guilty of this), but when the first attempt falls flat, merely repeating the same "joke" over again does not serve any purpose except to make the "humorist" look silly and/or desperate for attention.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

....I would be more impressed if Mr.K actually attempted to demonstrate that he possessed some knowledge of Tolkien. Anyone on an anonymous internet forum can claim to have read LOTR 40 times; people who have actually read LOTR 40 times, however, can talk endlessly about arcane details of Middle Earth, and they don't mock those who are similarly inclined and learned in the subject material.