There's a funny article about this over at NZ's Stuff.co website - thanks to Del for the tipoff.

Talking of spoofs, anyone who hasn't been following the Tolkien Sarcasm Page's mammoth work in bringing LOTR online as e-text (well, sort of), check it out here.

PS If you have or know of any Tolkien humor, please send it in to Tookish@theonering.net. Thanks!