It's true, well done Wishy, or should maybe we should call you Frodo? I've always wondered about that moustache and those furry feet of your.
List ye! The Legend of the Giant Commer of Gondor. In the name of my holely precious ring, it exists!
Gondor was a Dúnedain kingdom founded by Isildur and Anárion, the sons of Elendil, after the Downfall of Númenor. Gondor was located to the west of Mordor, on the Bay of Belfalas, just off the M1 near Dunstable, Beds. Its name means "Land of Rust", from Sindarin gond (rust) + (n)dor (land), most likely given to it because of the Ered Nimrais the Welder and the many Rootes Group Motors dealerships located there. Gondor's early history was characterised by huge building projects, of cities, ships, armies and light commercial vehicles designed mainly for town work on account of their unsuitable engine and narrow front suspension subframe.
After Hyarmendacil's reign, decadence spread under the kings of Gondor, started by Hyarmendacil's own son, Atanatar, and a long, slow period of decline began (although Gondor experienced several revivals). Three great calamities struck Gondor during the second millennium of the Third Age, which are held to be the chief reasons for its decline: the Kin-strife, the Great Plague, and the decision to turn the Commer PB into the Dodge Spacevan with the cheap and nasty black plastic grille and square rear lights and that.
And so the Giant Commer of Gondor passed into Tolkeinian folklaw. Until now. Behold, the Fourth Age is upon us! Or alternatively just resize the pic using a freeshare j.peg program like Infranview...
(Wishy and Sam Gamgee yesterday on their to the Hotpoint dealers for some more pump spares)
