[Ansteorra] A terrible calamity!

[Ysabeau]

Fabulous! Thank you for making me laugh! Glad I opened it instead of just
deleting!

Ysabeau

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Zubeydah Jamilla al-Badawiyyah <
zubeydah at gmail.com> wrote:

> This made me turn nearly purple, trying not to laugh out loud and thus
> startle my fellow cube-farmers... :)
>
> -zubeydah
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Peter Schorn <peterschorn at pdq.net> wrote:
> >
> > Dear friend,
> >
> > We hope this letter finds you well.  As for ourselves, such misfortune
> has befallen us!  We had thought to spend a season catching fish in the
> Misty Mountains (we know of a very good hole there!)  But we met with a
> nasty thief who tricked us.  He trapped us into a riddle-game and then, he
> stole our birthday present.  Our precious birthday present! And when we
> tried to go to find it, awful Men came and caught us, and gave us to the
> Elves to keep in a prison.  How we suffered!  The Elvish bonds, they
> burned!  They bit!  They froze us!
> >
> > With the help of some kind friends of yours we escaped, but now we
> wander all lost and alone over the hard rocks and stones of the Brown
> Lands.  We wish you could send a Nazgul or two to help us find that thief
> and get us back our precious.  Or failing that, some Orcs.  Or at least a
> Warg, with his keen, keen nose, keener than even ours.  Yes.
> >
> > So we conclude our sad letter asking for whatever help a kind friend
> like yourself can give us.  We hope you will bear our suffering and
> injustice in mind and keep an Eye out for that nasty, tricksy thief and our
> precious, precious birthday present.
> >
> > So sadly and hungrily yours,
> >
> > Your Friend
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