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So suggests an offbeat study, released on Sunday, which concludes that the evil characters in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" lost their battle against men, elves and dwarves because they suffered from vitamin deficiency.
(Thanks to Ralph)
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I hear air polution was involved. You, Smaug.
Posted by: JG | December 16, 2013 at 03:48 PM
Psst. Those are fictional characters...
Posted by: Hanna | December 16, 2013 at 04:00 PM
Systematic analysisss supports initial hypothesisss that doctorsss at Imperial College London suffer from minutus dicactias.
Posted by: YFNRW (your friendly neighborhood reference wench) | December 16, 2013 at 04:09 PM
And, yet, the typical college student survives.
Posted by: Steve | December 16, 2013 at 04:56 PM
So eat your damn broccoli, kids, or the Uruk-hai will get ya. And if you don't stay off my lawn, I will.
Posted by: Omniskeptic | December 16, 2013 at 06:04 PM
Don't blame the beer.
Posted by: Clankazoid | December 16, 2013 at 09:23 PM
Did anyone study the hygene of Orcs ? I don't think they washed their hands after going #2. Dysentary, typhoid, etc.
Posted by: LeDud | December 16, 2013 at 09:58 PM
So that's what happens when you don't get your daily allotment of Riboflavin?
Posted by: Ms. Flukey | December 16, 2013 at 11:56 PM
I asked the mountain lion who lives next door, and he said that people who don't take riboflavin don't taste like ribo anymore. I guess that's another taste: salt, sweet, sour, umami, yomomma, and ribo. Oh, and beer.
Posted by: Omniskeptic | December 17, 2013 at 09:45 AM
I'm pretty sure that tossing the Ring into a volcano had something to do with it, too. Also, they kept pissing off the Eagles.
Posted by: Allen at Division | December 17, 2013 at 02:32 PM