This is a fifty-word retelling of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Don’t read it if you want to avoid spoilers.
That Frodo dude hooked up with a froggy dude called Gollum and made a beeline for the volcano, but they had to fight this big stupid spider, which killed Frodo, except he didn’t actually die.
The wizard dude turned out not to be dead, either, so he went to war.
After you’re done summarizing LotR (what, you couldn’t summarize the entire saga in 50 words? Laaaaame ;) why don’t you take a crack at summarizing Proust’s “A la recherche du temps perdu” (“Remembrance of Things Past” a.k.a. “In Search of Lost Time”)
See how far you get.
Never heard of it, but I’ll look into it!
OK, since you didn’t get the joke, here’s what I was referring to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwAOc4g3K-g
Ah, I get it now. Good ol’ Monty Python.