Just had idea set in Middle Earth (maybe a few years before things got serious with Sauron) in which a relatively new type of creatures the Knobbits have populated a region in the North West known as The Wire where they smoke some really strong weed. These creatures are like miniature elves with surprising strength who have the ability to control the size of their penis or vaginal passage and can ejaculate much more frequently than other hominids. There physiology is also so different from elves, dwarfs (dwarves) and humans that they can neither get other species pregnant or become pregnant themselves by them. The geography, cities and towns would all remain the same and maybe they have heard about some mysterious cock ring, which increases pleasure 10 fold.
I found it quite easy to find sexual subtext in Tolkien's hobbits with just about no change to the storyline other than to restore "deleted scenes". It was pretty easy to imagine Farmer Maggot's mushrooms as aphrodisiacs, his fierce defense of his farm against a teen-aged Frodo as justified, and Mrs. Maggot's gift of a basket of mushrooms to Frodo as an intimate thank-you for services rendered. I wrote an episode from Frodo's time leaving the Shire as a farce using those points as premises. http://www.literotica.com/s/lord-of-the-rings-concerning-hobbi (rather mild male bisexual content; centered on Frodo and Mrs. Maggot). I'd love to see what you do with "The Knobbit/s", but I think that Tolkien's sensual, earthy little country folk could star in their own Decameron with hardly a change. Perhaps Rabelais' Pantagruel Chapter XXIII ("The Cause Wherefore the Leagues Are So Short In France") of King Pharamond's recalibration of the roads would make a fine retelling starring a hundred Knobbit lads and their paramours. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pantagruel/Chapter_XXIII
Zingiber, I enjoyed your story. As with the 'tobacco', the mushrooms are also things that could leave to other places and losing inhibitions, although I had never thought about that until you just mentioned it. It may be a while before I start this story as I have to complete you know what first. I think the Decameron framework would work well for knobbits which each telling of adventures outside The Wire, but I was possibly thinking more of maybe a knobbit brother and sister setting out on from The Wire on adventures to track down treasures they have read about. As I want to set it before Sauron's shadow begins once more to cast over the lands they could still meet Elrond and Arwen, or Galdriel and Celeborn, even Legolas and some historical dwarves. There might be a terrible tale when the sister is captured by Orcs ... and of course there are always dragons to fight and steal from. The question is would knobbits have to be 33 in order to avoid accusations of being underage?!
For a long time, the Rangers have been keeping a close eye on the Knobbits. Especially when they get frisky out of doors, the Rangers have to make sure no one bad sneaks up on them. The Knobbits think of the Rangers as interfering busybodies, and like most Big People, they're sort of No Fun types until you can talk them around. The town of Bree seems like a nice mixed community for things to happen, since Knobbits and Big Folk have been living happily together there for a long time. There are travelers coming through with news and stories, the occasional dwarf selling finely crafted accessories. And of course Elves are everywhere there are forests, making themselves known to few as they travel quietly outside their own lands, favoring starlit nights.
There is of course of Old Man Willow with his probing roots (like Japanese tentacle porn), trolls which may be on the upper limit of a female knobbit's capabilities, and Tom Bombadil's hippy colony.
Indeed. Old Man Willow would be in the next chapter if I continue my parody/homage sequence. My second episode ends with the party entering the Old Forest after Frodo's going away party (boisterous carryings-on in the bath and a mushroom feast) at his "new" house where Fatty Bolger is going to settle in, pretending to be Frodo. Maybe in the Knobbit version, Old Man Willow would swallow them feet-first?
