Fortunately/Unfortunately

[Meneltarmacil]

Unfortunately, it was an Exploding Pencil of Doom.

[Rikae]

Fortunately, it wouldn't explode until Tolkien pulled out the pin and counted to five.

[Volo]

Unfortunaly, the pin was too loosly attached and fell off itself and Tolkien, not knowing how to count to three, counted 1, 2, 5 and the Pencile of Doom exploded.

[Gil-Galad]

Fortunately, Tolkien misread the manual and it was infact the Imploding Pencil of Doom. so basically it went up like a puff of smoke and his hand ....yep...

[Meneltarmacil]

Unfortunately, it incinerated the only manuscript of The Lord of the Rings before it could be sent to the publishers. :(

[Volo]

Fortunaly, Tolkien didn't lose heart and rewrote the book, well, just twenty pages of it, he didn't remember the rest.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately, poor Gollum found out and
decided to finish the manuscript telling the
"True" story of the Precious and how poor
Smeagol (who only wants to help) was misunderstood.

[elronds_daughter]

Fortunately, this manuscript was incinerated with Gollum when he fell into Orodruin.

[Rikae]

Unfortunately, since the only manuscript for "The Lord of the Rings" was incinerated, Gollum couldn't fall into Mount Doom, since that happens in "The Lord of the Rings", and the paradox caused the fabric of space-time to get all crumpled up, coffee stained and beset with static cling (which, in turn, caused me to think night was day :eek: ).

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, the collapse somehow restored everything to normal, with Frodo five feet away from the Cracks of Doom.

[Volo]

Unfortunaly, those five feet were Shelob's

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Fortunately, she was too interested in playing a fifth game of chess against The Witch King that they both ignored Frodo.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately Shelob won by using an (unfair) ruse she had learned
from watching the Westley/Vissini duel in The Princess Bride and
grabbed Frodo.

[Volo]

Fortunaly, Sam was there to save Frode, with his Fender Stratocaster pulled out of course.

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, Sam did not know what a Fender Stratocaster was. (For that matter, neither do I.)

[Gil-Galad]

Fortunately, the reader decided to skip a couple pages to Sam and Frodo's burial at sea

[Boromir88]

Unfortunately that part was left out of this particular book.

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, Tolkien added it in his revised posthumous edition that comes out next month.

[Erue]

Unfortunately, "next month" is relative, as there are no Gregorian calendars in Middle-earth.

[Naria]

Fortunately,even in Middle Earth, there were the Sun, moon and stars to go by and therefore a calendar of sorts was theirs. :D

[Gil-Galad]

Unfortunately it became really cloudly for about 4 months and everyone lost track of time

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, Manwe cleared that up rather quickly.

[Meneltarmacil]

Unfortunately, he did so by causing a gigantic tsunami to destroy Middle-Earth.

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, Ulmo stopped him.

[Gil-Galad]

Unfortunately not till only 33.7% of M-E remains, but those were good odds. and Ulmo got a buckey of chicken out of it too.

[Erue]

Fortunatley, this was only a temporary set-back, thanks to Sam and his mad Stratocaster skills!
He broke-out the Steve Miller and fine ales, and the remaining 33.7% joined in a Middle-earth-wide re-population festival.

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, the festival turned into a riot, thus destroying the 33.7% of Middle-Earth that was left, and preventing Frodo from ever reaching Mount Doom.

[Rikae]

Fortunately, the destruction of Middle Earth, in an oh-so-original plot twist, turned out to be a dream; and the entwife who was dreaming it was rudely awakened by Faramir Took swinging on her branches.

[Gil-Galad]

unfortunately he died

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, he died heroically in saving Frodo from the Nazgul.

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, he was not able to, not having been born yet at the time.

[Gil-Galad]

Fortunately nobody really pays that much attention anyways

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Unfortunately, important people, namely Death and Eru, did notice and wanted to know right away what the Angband they thought they were doing.

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, Death and Eru had been drinking together till 3:00 AM last night and had a huge hangover which caused them to forget the whole thing.

[Gil-Galad]

Unfortunately, the video posted on youtube.com helped them remember... and also explained why there was a goat on top of the roof...

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, Gimli, who was still starving, ate the goat.

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, it gave him heartburn, and the drugstore was out of medicine.

[Rikae]

Fortunately, Mark_Dollarsky kindly offered his patented voodoo heartburn cure...

[The Elf-warrior]

Unfortunately, it didn't work.

[Gil-Galad]

Fortunately, it did cure Gimli's hunger. forever.

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, Gimli was not enjoying the Halls of Mandos.

[The Elf-warrior]

Fortunately, Mandos always enjoys the halls of Mandos. Mua ha, ha, ha!

[Gil-Galad]

Unfortunately, Mandos got bored and kicked Gimli out into the ocean. Halls of Mandos only has one arcade game.

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, a passing ship found Gimli and saved him before he could drown.

[Nimrodel_9]

Unfortunately, it was a ship full of hungry orcs.

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, Gimli took care of all 42 of them rather quickly.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Unfortunately, there was also a troll there who thought that Dwarves were a good dish.

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, all the sunlight had turned the troll to stone.

[Volo]

Unfortunately, the stone was slippery and slipped to the side of the ship making it sink.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Fortunately, Gimli was in a pie shop at the time.

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, Gimli fainted and fell into the display case.

(Happened to my dad once when he was a kid.)

[Gil-Galad]

Unfortunately, Gimli's powers of jumping from palces to palces came to an abrupt end. To continue this, Boromir has been challenged to a Dance-A-Thon by Legolas, The Witch King, Gollum, Frodo and Saruman.

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, Boromir won the contest with his awesome disco skills.

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, the Witch-King was quite unhappy, and decided to stab Boromir.

[Nimrodel_9]

Fortunately, he missed. ;)

[Volo]

Unfortunaly, he hit Frodo in stead.

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, Glorfindel brought Frodo to Rivendell in time.

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, Arwen punched him for taking Asfaloth back.

[Rikae]

Fortunately, Arwen wasn't wearing her brass knuckles, since Pippin swallowed them that morning.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately, Arwen used her giant tapestry sewing
needle in lieu of her brass knuckles.

[Gil-Galad]

Fortunately, everyone knew that was too farfecthed for arwen to do and it was ignored, sorry.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Unfortunately, logic was thrown out of the window when The League of In-Jokes arrived.

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, the League of Logic, headed by Spock and Elrond, picked logic back up and won an epic battle against the League of In-Jokes.

[Nimrodel_9]

Unfortunately, poor Frodo, though safe in Rivendell, collapsed in shock from all of the confusion.

[The Elf-warrior]

Fortunately, confusion collapsed from the shock.

[Meneltarmacil]

Unfortuantely, the house of Elrond also collapsed and crushed poor Frodo.

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, he survived unharmed somehow.

[Meneltarmacil]

Unfortunately, a wolf ate him.

[Rikae]

Fortunately, the wolf was a better ring-bearer than Frodo anyhow.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Unfortunately, Aragorn was not aware of this and so chopped it to bits.

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, his sword broke.

[ninja91]

Unfortunately, the wolf caught a spear in the back from a hollering Eomer.

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, it was a rubber spear.

[ninja91]

Unfortunately, the rubber spear was infected with Ebola virus and the wolf died instantly...somehow...

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, the cure for the Ebola was developed that very second at that place.

[Gil-Galad]

Unfortunately, the Macarena also came with the Ebola virus, dancy craze was on

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, the wolf accidentally crazy-danced into the fires of Mount Doom with the Ring.

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, Saruman dropped a rock on him.

[Rikae]

Fortunately, he was already in Mount Doom, and the lava built up pressure behind the rock until it burst out and hit Sauron in the face.

[The Elf-warrior]

Unfortunately, this made Sauron upset.

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, Sauron took out his wrath on the Witch-king.

[Rikae]

Unfortunately, the WiKi took out his wrath on the Shire, by destroying its entire supply of Longbottom Leaf!

[The 1,000 Reader]

Fortunately, before that the Witch-King killed Sauron with his own knife in Saving Private Ryan fashion. The Shire was still drugless and the people were starving, but Manwe was happy.

[Gil-Galad]

Unfortunately, Manwe's favourite Socialist Bear, Hugalot, ran way. Making Manwe unhappy

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, Johnny the Stinky Balrog came by to cheer him up.

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, Manwë considered Johnny's presence anathema, and they waged a titanic battle.

[Gil-Galad]

Fortunately, Johnny won of course

[FeRaL sHaDoW]

Unfortunately, Johnny died a day later due to the snuffles

[Gil-Galad]

Fortunately, everyone thats been on this thread for a while remembers that Johnny is invinceble and can never die, only go away then appear back again.

[Meneltarmacil]

Unfortunately, Johnny ate Frodo.

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, the alien-eating dog ate Johnny first.

[Valier]

Unfortunately the alien-eating dog got indigestion

[Gurthang]

Fortunately, this also gave Johnny indigestion. Thus, the overall result is that the alien-eating dog threw up Johnny, and Johnny threw up Frodo. :eek:

[Meneltarmacil]

Unfortunately, Johnny stole the Ring.

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, Gandalf stabbed him and gave the ring back to Frodo.

[Rikae]

Unfortunately, since Gandalf killed to obtain the ring, he turned into a Gollumlike creature.

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, he was still cloaked.

[Nogrod]

Unfortunately the "Gandalf cloaking" jokes were banned already and the earlier point was not considered valid, leaving Gandalf openly a Gollum-like creature.

[The 1,000 Reader]

Fortunately, there was still hope that the numerous repeated jokes could stop and keep this thread from being more milked than Final Fantasy 7. Granted, FF7 was in itself a milking, but the jokes were nearly on it's level. At the very least they hadn't ruined their potential utterly like Halo.

[Gil-Galad]

Unfortunately, Eru banned all video games

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, Legolas convinced him to allow video games again, so hordes of fans could still break the canon in Lord of The Rings: The Third Age. (Nice game, but you can feel the Professor turning over in his grave over the mithril weapons.)

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Unfortunately, the professor was so annoyed that he got up and burned all copies of the game.

[Valier]

Fortunately someone had made a backup copy, that the Proffesor didn't know about. So more were made and everyone was happy and they even added three new Mithril weapons!! :eek: :p

[Gil-Galad]

Unfortunately, these new mithril weapons destroyed the games themselves and nobody tought to make backups of backups.

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, a new game that was exactly like the old one came out.

[The Elf-warrior]

Unfortunately, an EMP attack destroyed a third of the world's computers.

[The 1,000 Reader]

Fortunately, this stopped all Third Age games, causing people to move on to the Rise of the Witch-King and the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Unfortunately, this meant that all the people from middle Earth needed the Internet and they soon discovered The Downs and were outraged by the Fortunately / Unfortunately thread. Gandalf was more outraged about the Crazy Captions thread where people had somehow found out about his... *cough* ... habits.

[Nogrod]

Fortunately it was christmas and all saw the light.

[Boromir88]

Unfortunately Morgoth was Santa (ironic anagram - Satan) in disguise and ruined the soon to come Christmas.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Fortunately, Gandalf used his... *cough* ... 'habit' to stop Morgoth.

[Meneltarmacil]

Unfortunately, Morgoth had seen worse things and was unaffected.

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, Sauron hadn't seen anything worse and was affected, killing him instantly, and preventing the War of the Ring from ever happening.

[The Elf-warrior]

Unfortunately, it didn't prevent the War of the Ringtones.

[Rikae]

Fortunately, the "Final Fantasy 3 opera song" ringtone, wielded by the Flat Morgoyak, won the war, incorporated every loose end, fitted Gandalf with a cloaking device and allowed Christmas to continue as scheduled.

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, Bob the Troll came and smashed the cell phone.

[Boromir88]

Fortunately, Gandalf with his 'magic' fixed the phone and the War of the Ringtones continued as planned...

[Gil-Galad]

Unfortunately, it was planned in space, where no one can hear you use your ringtones...

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, everyone was wearing spacesuits.

[Boromir88]

Unfortunately they all forgot their oxygen tanks

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, the Hobbits were invited to the funeral.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Unfortunately, it wasn't catered.

[The Elf-warrior]

Fortunately, the funeral baked meats were nice and hot.

[Boromir88]

Unfortunately everyone know's Hobbits are vegetarians...

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, they started eating meat again.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Unfortunately, the meat wasn't quite dead yet! :eek:

[Gil-Galad]

Fortunately, the hobbits are deaf now too

[Meneltarmacil]

Unfortunately, that meant they couldn't hear the Dragon coming to eat them until it was too late.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Fortunately, the Dragon had a heart attack, for it saw it's own reflection and realised that he had been putting on weight.

[Boromir88]

Unfortunately the hands of the healer revived the dragon, gave him liposuction, and cleared his arteries so he could go pray on the hobbits once again.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Fortunately, the hobbits had all gone on Holiday by then.

[Boromir88]

Unfortunately Dragons don't recognize the holidays of the hobbits; and only have one holiday themselves...'Hobbits for dinner day.' And that day happened to be...now. :D

[The Perky Ent]

Fortunately, flying ents plummeted down from the heavents, crashing upon the dragon and killing it.

:)

[Boromir88]

Unfortunately the Ents and Dragons recognized and practiced the same national holiday...and now they were after the Hobbits!

[Rikae]

Fortunately, they wanted to pray on the hobbits rather than prey on them.

[Boromir88]

Ahh making a clever joke about my poor grammar eh? I just noticed that too. :D Anyway...

Unfortunately the Ents took it literally as in they prayed on [top] of the Hobbits...making Hobbit pancakes out of them all.

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, the Hobbits moved to Kansas, where everything is as flat as a pancake anyway.

[The Might]

Unfortunately a tornado came and took them to the magical land of Oz

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, they landed on both Wicked Witches at once and had a nice smoke to celebrate.

[Rikae]

Unfortunately, the smoke was coming from the burning ents the witch's sister had ignited for revenge.

[The Might]

Fortunately the Wizard of Oz had been replaced by Gandalf who quickly came and put out the Ents

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, Saruman came to set them on fire again.

[Rikae]

Fortunately they were green and didn't burn.

[Gil-Galad]

unfortunately, they melted

[The Might]

fortunately, once they were dead, they could once again meet the Entwives

[Gil-Galad]

Unfortunately, Entwives all fell in love with Khamul the Handsome-and-attractive- Easterling and Khamul had Were-Feanor and Johnny the Stinky Balrog as his bodyguards againest ghost ents.

[The Might]

Fortunately, now that the Ents were gone Saruman could finally get enough wood for his underground chocolate factory (what did you think caused those fumes all the time)

[Boromir88]

Unfortunately Saruman laced all his chocolate with arsenic...

[Rikae]

Fortunately his main market was Mordor's orcs.

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, they sold it to Elves as well.

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, Elves are immune to arsenic.

[The Might]

Unfortunately Galadriel lost her ideal weight due to the chocolate and started looking more and more into the mirror to see herself beautiful again.

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, she went on Atkins and lost weight again.

[Meneltarmacil]

Unfortunately, Gollum stole the Ring when nobody else was looking.

[The Might]

Fortunately as he was doing his victory dance his ring slipped from his hand, fell through the tunnels and was eventually found by Bilbo

[Boromir88]

Unfortunately Bilbo thought it was just a simple band of gold, and traded it to Saruman for some of his chocolates.

[The Might]

Fortunately Saruman thought that his own Ring was much cooler and he sold the Ring to Ghan-buri-ghan

[Meneltarmacil]

Unfortunately, Ghan-buri-ghan decided to eat the Ring! :eek:

[The Might]

Fortunately a few Gondorians found the Ring (alittle bit dirty) on the border of the Druadan Forest (I guess it's pretty clear how it ended up there ;))

[Meneltarmacil]

Unfortunately, Boromir was with them and took the Ring for himself.

[The Might]

Fortunately the Ring was replaced by Manwe in time with a chocolate bar

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, Manwë took the ring and overthrew Eru with it.

[The Might]

Fortunately Eru had a back up plan and so he turned all of Ea into chaos again and started over.

[Valesse]

Unfortunately Eru's "Restart" button got stuck and the world/void/chaos needed to be recreated every five...nether-minutes.

[The Might]

Fortunately Eru remembered that it's important not to panic so he slowls rebuil the world as it had been before

[The 1,000 Reader]

Unfortunately, instead of just making Orcs in this fashion, Eru made every race in Middle-Earth slimy, willless cowards who ultimately don't have any depth and would kill each other just for a shirt of Mithril.

[The Might]

Fortunately at least there was more action in the books and more people would buy it

[Rikae]

Unfortunately, those people were more interested in the new movie that had just come out: Hunny, I ate the Baby on a Plane.

[The Might]

Fortunately The Hobbit finally came out (made by PJ also) and people started buying the books again and joining sites like the Barrow-Downs ;)

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, they were all spammers.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Fortunately, people of the Downs were beginning to accept spam as an inevitability.

[The Might]

Unfortunately the spam levels increased until all threads received a "this is no serious thread" label and were closed

[Boromir88]

Fortunately the spammers gave up and moved to spam places elsewhere.

[The Might]

Unfortunately with all the spammers gone the Downs were not such a fun place anymore

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, the Flat Morgo-Yak came and made it fun again.

[The Might]

unfortunately I have no idea who the flat Morgo-Yak is :confused:

[Rikae]

Fortunately, he introduced himself and shook hoofs with everybody, and proceeded to order the next round of 1420.

[Volo]

Unfortunaly, Saruman possessed the Morgo-Yak.

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, Gandalf exorcised him.

[The Might]

Unfortunately he became possesed in the process

[Rikae]

Fortunately, no one noticed any difference.

[The Might]

Unfortunately he killed the Fellowship in their sleep because of the Morgo-Yak (can anyone tell me what that is???) inside him and took the Ring

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, he tripped over a rock and knocked himself unconscious, and the Ring was taken by a giant slug.

can anyone tell me what that is???

Look here (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?p=493629&highlight=morgo-yak#post493629).

[The Might]

Unfortunately the Morgo-Yak left Gandalf's body thus killing him, and went to have a date with Voldemort

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, Voldemort does not exist in Middle-Earth

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Unfortunately, Insanity mixed with elves and swords did... so... you can guess what happened.

[The Might]

Fortunately, the Morgo-Yak got bored and went home

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, his home was now in the Shire...

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, it was with Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.

[FeRaL sHaDoW]

unfortunately, wargs ate all of the shire.

[The Might]

fortunately, a theme park was built where the Shire existed and Gondor made lots of money with it

[Meneltarmacil]

Unfortunately, all the visitors were eaten by Wargs as well.

[Boromir88]

Fortunately Grima told the wargs to go away and they did.

[The Might]

unfortunately some returned and ate him too

[Volo]

Fortunaly, the Shire became a popular Warg hunting park.

[The Might]

unfortunately all the hunters were eaten by Wargs as well

I somehow start to realise it is much easier to write bad things then good things

[The Elf-warrior]

Fortunately the wargs were all killed by rangers.

[FeRaL sHaDoW]

unfortunately, now all the rangers were eating everyone....

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Fortunately, The Serious Cat (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/hukbillgoomba/Seriously.jpg) told them they were all being silly. So they went home to think about what they'd done.

[Boromir88]

Unfortunately once the Serious Cat realized he(?) had so much power, he got Eru to resign and declared himself the new 'Dark Overlord' of Arda.

[FeRaL sHaDoW]

Fortunately, the wargs came back and ate every one on middle earth and started a dictatorship.

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, meanwhile the Serious Cat, the flat Morgo-Yak, Johnny the Stinky Balrog, Bob the Troll, the alien-eating dog, and Mount Zoom were all merging into one, the One Running Gag to Rule Them All! Wahahahahahahahahah!

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Fortunately, Mount Zoom got a flat tire, and since all the other running jokes were riding on Mount Zoom, they had to wait until it was fixed.

[Thinlómien]

Unfortunately, the fixing didn't take very long.

[Boromir88]

Fortunately they saw the light and realized that being the ultimate running gag to Rule the Rule them All was not the right thing to do. So, they all changed their old habits and got new identities.

[The Might]

Unfortunately the Morgo-Yak was wearing his poker glasses at the time and he didn't see any light

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, Mount Zoom ran over him when its flat tire was repaired.

[Boromir88]

Unfortunately that did not kill him.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Fortunately, he was crippled for life.

Wait... that sounds sick...

[The Might]

Unfortunately he had some Orc alcohol with healing powers and managed to return and attack the world

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, he randomly had a heart attack and died.

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, he was reanimated as the Zombie Flat Morgo-Yak!

[The Might]

Fortunately, as a zombie he came to live in the Barrow-Downs and he didn't trouble anyone else.

[Gil-Galad]

unfortunately, the barrow-downs troubled him!

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, he calmed down after he ate Gil-Galad.

[Boromir88]

Unfortunately Gil-galad was trained by Chuck Norrod Felagund and fought his way out of Morgo-Yak's stomach.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Fortunately, by the time he did so, Morgo-Yak had already grown too fat on Barrow Down's food to even make a move.

[The Might]

Unfortunately the Wights grew concerned because of the size of the Morgo-Yak and started leaving the Downs and settling in the Tower Hills

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, we were quite welcome there.

[Rikae]

Unfortunately, the air, which resembled thick green slime, did not agree with us, and we were not amused (no, we were not, my love).

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, the Morgo-Yak exploded from eating too much, allowing us to return to the Downs in peace.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Unfortunately, the clean up operation was long and disgusting.

[The Might]

Fortunately, once all was done everyone was happy

[Meneltarmacil]

Unfortunately, the Dragon came!

[Rikae]

Fortunately, it was a wee little cutesy pink dragon with lavender spots that hosted a marshmellow roasting party on the beach.

[High King Fingolfin]

Unfortunately, it was Smaug in disguise.

[Gil-Galad]

Fortunately, Smaug brought Trogdor and Burninator and they BURNINATED Lake-Town together

[The Elf-warrior]

Unfortunately this didn't help the Laketown economy.

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, an economist came and told them how to fix it.

[Meneltarmacil]

Unfortunately, before he could finish telling them, Smaug ate him.

[Gil-Galad]

fortunately, the people had already rebuilt new-lake-town

[The Might]

unfortunately they built it using cheap materials and the topwn started to slowly sink in the water

[Volo]

Fortunaly, the Lake-Towners liked living underwater much more than above water.

[Thinlómien]

Unfortunately they didn't have gills.

[Volo]

No, but fortunaly, they had long straws.

[The Might]

Unfortunately toxic waste from the mines in Erebor made the lake toxic, and the lake men had to leave

[Rikae]

Fortunately they won a archery competition, and the prize was a $5000 (middle earth dollars) discount from U-Haul.

[The Might]

Unfortunately, Gollum stole the cash

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, Aragorn got it back for them.

[Gil-Galad]

Unfortunately, it was too late and the town sank into the lake...

fortunately, they built another one!

unfortunately, that also sank into the lake

fortunately, they build a fourth one!

unfortunately, that set on fire, fell down, thenk sank into the lake

fortunately, they built a fufth one and that fifth one held strong!

unfortunately, it is up to someone else to think of a fortunately

[Thinlómien]

Fortunately, the story wants Gil-galad back and refuses to continue by me. (So I don't need to think of anything clever.)

[The Might]

Unfortunately, the author disagrees with the story, and doesn't bring Gil-Galad

[Meneltarmacil]

Fortunately, Mount Zoom ran over the author.

[Thinlómien]

Unfortunately, the author didn't die.

[Volo]

Fortunaly, the author didn't but the art did. ( :confused: isn't this the wrong way round???)

[Rikae]

Unfortunately, the ghost of the art came back in the form of a pigeon and pitched the palantir of Pallas over Pippin's oven door.

[High King Fingolfin]

Fortunately, Pippin gave the palantir to Gandalf.

[Rikae]

Unfortunately Gandalf, disregarding all warnings, licked the Palantir and his tongue stuck to it.

[Thinlómien]

Fortunately, Gwaihir was around and took him to Elrond's First Aid Clinic.

[Gil-Galad]

Unfortunately, Elrond decided to become a vet instead and refused to treat Gandalf