One PEZ to Rule Them All...

Any of you who've been reading my blog for a decent length of time probably know by now that I love nothing more than when two of my geeky interests collide into one single roiling mass of nerdocity. And as a fan of the Lord of the Rings (both the books and the movies) and a lover and former die-hard collector of PEZ dispensers (I sold off my entire collection to one person and made enough money to live on for almost a year back when I was first in college), you can imagine my unbridled joy when I opened this surprise birthday box from my big bro (who has made giants strides in understanding his little brother's weirdness) and laid my peepers on this brilliant box collection of LOTR PEZ...

Good... gods... the sheer... awesomeness...

Here we see Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the White reminiscing about the good old days of traveling with a party of dwarves and battling dragons. And also being filled with small, fruit-flavored bricks of candy.

Despite their boxy fuselages in lieu of anthropomorphic bodies, the PEZ dispensers below show the harrowing journey of Frodo and Samwise, with Golem in tow, toward the flaming pits of Mount Doom. One can almost hear Samwise uttering the word, "POE-TAY-TOES." 

And no epic journey would be complete without the fearless vanguard of Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli. In fact, the plastic sculpted visage on the Aragorn PEZ dispenser shows more range in facial expression than the actual Viggo Mortensen. Now to see if the Legolas dispenser can shield-surf down a flight of stone steps.

With any hope, the Bearer of the One Ring will reach the end of his quest in the foul depths of Mordor, destroying the ring of Sauron, and the armies of Gondor, lead by the fearless son of Arathorn, will push back the Uruk'hai horde, and peace will reign once again in the age of dwarves, elves, men and Hobbits. And also with as much hope, there will be extra strawberry PEZ in the pack, and not too much lemon.