Best answer.

Vlad is now winning the thread.

Done correctly, this sounds like it could be kinda good.

That lady truly understands tLotR.

I am willing to bet she read the books before seeing the movies.

In my study of them, I have often wondered who, exactly, IS The Lord Of The Rings. Sam is definitely one. He, Faramir, Galadriel, and Gandalf are the only characters to have a close encounter with The One Ring and never succumb to it. Sam even touches and carries it and resists its temptations.

It's made clear that he's also the only Hobbit who truly returns to his normal life in The Shire and I like the fact that the book closes with him doing so.

Papa John's is in news, and one of my students told me that I was demonstratively wrong in calling Domino's 'bad', so let's rank pizza chains!

If you can think of any places that I forgot, I will edit my list and add them.

Pizza Hut
Little Ceasar's
Sbarro
Papa John's
Domino's

I'd swap sbarro and little Caesars, but the only one I really think is good if the Hut.

Is Four Star Pizza still around?
There's Fox's Pizza, but they may be a regional thing.

Never heard of either one.

Figures.

Oh well, as I've mentioned before, I live in a geographic region of pizza stupidity.

1) Places around here give the size of a pizza by cuts.
"How big is your medium, and how big is your large?"
"Our medium is an 8-cut, and our large is a 12-cut."
And people seem to accept this horse-pucky as valid.

2) The above number of cuts actually means slices rather than the actual number of cuts. For example, to get an 8-cut pizza you make 4 cuts and the result is 8 slices. It's just a bad nomenclature gravy on an already stupid concept.

Yeah, that's dumb.

I have contemplated opening my own pizzeria and exploiting this local quirk.
My business model would be to have exactly one diameter of pizza, say 10" or 12" and list my sizes only as cuts.
I would cut the pizza according to the "size" ordered.

#brilliant

I've never it, but Jet's is another chain.

I always thought that Sauron was THE Lord of the Rings. I thought the poem pretty much set that up.

Three Rings for the Elven Lords under the Sky
Seven for the Dwarf Lords in their halls of Stone
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the shadows lie....

For the national chains, I'd rank them...

Pizza Hut
Little Ceasar's
Domino's
Papa John's
Sbarro

Though I avoid Papa John's because of the whole big game hunting controversy.

I rank Sbarro so low because I've never had a whole pizza from them, just slices that have been sitting around for awhile and then reheated. My guess is that they also fall into that theory that chain restaurants in a mall's food court are worse than their regular counterparts...and I've never eaten at a Sbarro's except at a mall or an airport.

The answer to all Tolkien questions is Tom Bombadil.

I didn’t even know that there were free standing Sbarros.

There is a place in Detroit called Curry on Crust that makes interesting pizzas. It is not a chain, akaik, but it is worth checking out. (I suspect, though, that haven would classify their wares as something other than pizza.)

http://www.curryoncrust.com/Default.aspx