Calling all Tolkien geeks!

[KamaAina]

especially those who may not get to GD much.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=808092&mesg_id=808092

[pokerfan]

1. !

Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit. As we were talking I mentioned that I had recently installed Windows on my PC, I told him how happy I was with this operating system and showed him the Windows CD. Too my astonishment and distress he threw it into my micro-wave oven and turned it on. I was upset because the CD had become precious to me, but he said: 'Do not worry, it is unharmed.' After a few minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said: 'Take a close look at it.' To my surprise the CD was quite cold and it seemed to have become thicker and heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, but on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription, in lines finer than anything I have ever seen before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:

4f6e65204f5320746f2072756c65207468656d20616c6c2c204f6e65204f5320746f2066696e64207468656d2c204f6e65204
f5320746f206272696e67207468656d20616c6c20616e6420696e20746865206461726b6e6573732062696e64207468656d2e

'I cannot read the fiery letters,' I said.

'No,' he said, 'but I can. The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here. But in common English this is what it says:'

One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

[rrneck]

2. I laughed my as off!

Now I can't find it!