Coffee!

[Gandalf_theGrey]

How's this, Bethberry?

Look what I dug up:

This 10 ounce black ceramic coffee mug is adorned with the winged-skull Death's Head and inscribed in Latin, "Memento Te Esse Mortalum" (Remember You Are Mortal). How's that for a sobering thought to accompany your morning cup of coffee?

http://www.evileyes.com/gifts.html

Barrow Wight:

As for the filtering of coffee into the Shire ultimately benefitting the coffers of Mordor and Harad, a quite legitimate worry indeed, and another unfortunate symptom of Arda marred. However, let's say said coffee was coming in through Saruman. His tendency would be I think to prefer dealing with Hobbit merchants (and through a layer or two of go-betweens at that) who didn't ask too many questions about where coffee is grown as they traded Longbottom Leaf for those oh-so-exotic aromatic beans of morning brew.

Child of the 7th Age: I'm also fond of the anachronistic "passed like an express train". One can always point to poetic license based on the phrase being a simile. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

~~ Gandalf the Grey