1 Kyros: Across the Bridge of Khazad-dûm! There lies the way out of the Mines of Moria! Make haste; the Balrog follows!
2 Mordekai: {gestures to large EXIT sign past the Bridge of Khazad-dûm}
2 Mordekai: If that Balrog can read, he'll follow us for sure.
3 Kyros: I'll handle the Balrog.
3 Kyros: I am a servant of the secret fire, wielder of the flame of Arnor, The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun.
4 Kyros: You! Shall not! Parse!

Thanks to rain_man for the punchline.

Blame him.

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2011-12-23 Rerun commentary: In the early days of the comic I acknowledged people who suggested gags for particular strips. The problem was that this encouraged people to send me stuff. It soon become too much to keep track of, let alone use it all. So I stopped including explicit acknowledgements of reader suggestions. Not out of ingratitude or a desire to specifically not acknowledge contributions, but simply to avoid encouraging people to send stuff and to keep the number of suggestions down to a level where it didn't actively interfere with making the comic.

Over the years I actually used only maybe 5% of all the reader suggestions I received. Most of them just ended up in my ever-growing ideas file, that continued to grow faster than I could use all the ideas within it. It ended up at almost 100 kilobytes of ASCII text.