At 02:22 21/12/01 +0000, you wrote:
Elrond's whispered reply to Avon:
The One Ring would utterly corrupt anyone who carried it to Mt Doom, the heartland of its power. And we couldn't find anyone brave, tough, or stupid enough to knock a giant eagle into the Cracks of Doom afterwards...
Avon sighed. "Do I have to think of *everything*?" he whispered back acidly. "Simply give it back to Bilbo--who I seem to recall already volunteered for the task of taking the ring to Mordor--and instruct the eagle to drop *him* into the volcano along with it. Problem solved with minimal loss of life and, as a bonus, the added weight will improve the accuracy of the drop. Just don't tell Blake, or we'll never hear the last of it. He was bad enough about the damned Decimas, never mind hobbits."
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