Greetings, Lord of the Rings obsessives. I have a question for you: how does it feel to be one of the most prolific and dedicated meme making fandoms on the internet? Seriously, this meme serial has been running for about a million years, and still the hobbit lovers out there keep on coming up with new, hilarious content about Middle-earth every week.

I think it’s fair to say that when he wrote this classic series of novels, J.R.R. Tolkien had no idea that it would blow up on a tiny yet powerful corner of the internet. I mean, he likely had no idea that the internet would exist, either, not least because he was more concerned with the quest to get to Mordor. Thank God he was, because that somehow led us down the path towards all of these memes. You know the drill by now, so go forth and enjoy.