h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I found it OK on the 'Read the Post' page.

Fascinating! I would add that I've heard that the language of Mordor is said to resemble Turkish more than any other language.

Is this a typo -- 'Seek and thou shall find' ??

I would have said either 'Seek and thou shalt find' or 'Seek and ye shall find' -- the latter is the Authorised Version translation of Matthew 7:7

Not so much a typo as a piece of stupidity on my part. It would be nice if a Post Editor could change it.

I always felt that Tolkien must have been inspired in much of his imagery by the poem Lepanto http://www.poetry-online.org/chesterton_lepanto.htm

This bit seems to match the episode of King Théoden and his grisly adviser Wormtongue:

King Philip's in his closet with the Fleece about his neck
(Don John of Austria is armed upon the deck.)
The walls are hung with velvet that is black and soft as sin,
And little dwarfs creep out of it and little dwarfs creep in.
He holds a crystal phial that has colours like the moon,
He touches, and it tingles, and he trembles very soon,
And his face is as a fungus of a leprous white and grey
Like plants in the high houses that are shuttered from the day,
And death is in the phial and the end of noble work,
But Don John of Austria has fired upon the Turk.