If you like J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy legendarium, you can put one ring on it. But why even bother introducing The Hobbit? This is Laser Orgy. You read the books before there were movies, you watched the movies before the newest movie, and, by the beard of Tom Bombadil, you bow to no one. (Unless it's Viggo Mortensen in a towel.

When the first Conference on Middle-Earth convened, in 1969, The Lord of the Rings was a series of fantasy books written by a British professor and embraced by hippies. Two years later, at the second conference, things were much the same except that the hippies were doing harder drugs.

Then a decade went by.