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"Wouldn’t it be nice if, instead of a dragon, the Dwarves found Fraggles in their mountain?"

Rob Beschizza at 8:57 am Wed, Feb 27, 2013

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http://twitter.com/Sabocat Sabocat

Doozers would make more sense.
- http://grumer.org/ Avram Grumer
  
  Thirteen doozers hire a fraggle to help them kill off the dog who chased them out of their ancestral homeland.
http://twitter.com/aurich Aurich Lawson

I love how lovingly these were rendered, taking the joke all the way is the best.
SomeGuyNamedMark

Shades of Mel Gibson there
http://twitter.com/mandospaz Charlie vanBecelaere

Sadly, it was Smaug who found the Fraggles in the mountain. By the time the dwarves returned, there were none left to find.
James Penrose

If the Dwarves found Fraggles sitting on their hoard, especially the Arkenstone, I fear it would not go well for the Fraggles.

Avarice all too often turns them to madness of a sort if you dig back through all of Tolkein’s earlier stuff.
Chris Hogan

What the hell Fraggles? What did your cheerful song-and-dance number do to the kingdom of Dale?