Rubes by Leigh Rubin for August 15, 2018

How do they get to be in the caves of Menegroth?

Now if he can manage to see it for the trees.

And if one of them should fall when no one is around – will it make a sound?

Hope none of them get ‘fired’.

Department-of-Forest trees.

Worst federal department. Stopping forest fires have turned into the reason we don’t have small fires anymore. Without the burn off of ground tinder periodically, pine bark beetles have flourished killing the mature trees adding to the tinder build up. So when a fire gets going in these conditions we have one Hell of a fire.

I know there’s a tree somewhere in here.

You were expecting something else??

“May I help you? … And, if you don’t mind my asking, might you be a son of Adam?”