The first sentence...it says...Frodo's twentieth birthday party? *really, really hoping this is a spoof*

*then right eye twiches. Sees it's a sacastic site and says 'ok'. Keeps reading and finds the article in London Sunday Times. Lips twitch, grabs a axe and walks slowly away saying 'come here squirrel, squirrel! I don't wanna hurt ya!'
Really did they use it in the paper?

But... but that's nothing like the movies! No mention of Arwen at the Ford, or Legolas and the oliphants elephants, OR the Dead taking over the pirate ships!

No wonder people get so much wrong about this series.

And I can't believe there was a newspaper article that actually used that synopsis.

It's 100% parody/sarcasm - the Flying Moose used to be one of my favourite sites way back in around 2002. It's all utter crack, but entertaining utter crack.

The synopsis, as such, is most definitely intended as humour. However, I guess it is possible some Suethors may have taken it at face value.

Check out the Tolkien Sarcasm pages. Balrogs have fluffy bedroom slippers, didn't you know? And Tom Bombadil is the Witch King.

Elcalion, running off to re-read all the quality Flying Moose stuff after many years.

It excellently blends truth with complete fiction, and spirals downward into ridiculosity without a noticeable thump.
""Well, everybody ends up running around Middle-earth in different directions. Aragorn and that Dwarf and Elf whose names I can't remember go to this place with lots of horses, but inexplicably they have no racetrack. ""

Don't worry, there's enough truth in it to safely say this is probably a joke.

Given the fact that they claim parts of the story take place in Japan ...

I would not, however, put it past some Suethors to take it seriously. I've seen weirder things taken seriously.

rather amusingly horrid.