Here's an article I found that some might find interesting. I don't have a link because it's only available in parchment form...
Gondor troops find no ROP's (Rings of Power)
Boobo Buggins -Shire News Monthly
Minas Tirith, Gondor-It has been several months since the Dark Lord Sauron has been defeated and there is still no sign of the Ring of Power that led King Aragorn, who swept to power on a anti-orc platform, on the road to war.
Sauron, defeated 3,000 years ago, was rumored to have been regaining strength recently and had re-activated his ROP program. King Aragorn sought to pre-emptively invade Mordor in a bid to effect regime change in that desolate land. In his speech to the council of Elrond in Rivendell last year the then Ranger known as Strider said, "If the people of Middle Earth do not form a coalition to strip Sauron of the Ring of Power then this council is little more than a debating society."
Also plagueing the administration are claims that the King's "coalition" is acutally made up almost entirely of Men except for 1 elf, 1 dwarf, and 4 hobbits. Aragorn's spokesman, the Wizard Gandalf, rebutted that 200 elfs helped defend Helm's Deep. When questioned about the accuracy of an Elf presence at Helms Deep Gandalf conceded that early, written accounts place those elfs in the forest of Lorien at the time.
The Wizard Gandalf has come under scrutiny lately as well. Sources close to the wizard place him at Isengard only weeks before the war's start. "At the time Saruman was considered an ally of Men and Gondor," Gandalf has said, "The past has no bearing on the current political situation."
PETM, People for the ethical treatment of monsters, have also objected to the treatment of oliphants during the war. "Oliphants are an endangered species," says Woody Leafblower, elf spokesman for PETM, "their treatment during the war was atrocious." Mr. Leafblower was then devoured by a troll.
In other legal news, the remaining Orcs of Mordor imprisoned as enemy combatants at Camp Brandywine in the Shire are seeking to be released. Conditions there are reported to be "disgustingly pleasant" by the prisoners.
"We ain't got but carrots and taters to eat since we got 'ere," commented Grishnak of Clan Spurting Vein, "not even any rotten meat! It's a bleedin' crime against orcdom says I."
