But Cimorene should be careful what she wishes for. When her parents finally manage to betroth her to the rather dull Prince Therandil, Cimorene declares that she would rather be eaten by a dragon. She's not short, demure and golden-haired like her six older sisters, and to make matters worse, she keeps bullying members of the court to teach her things highly inappropriate for a princess: cooking, Latin, swordplay, and magic. Princess Cimorene is driving her parents to desperation. I looked through the first 150 magazines, after which it isn't older than the quote above, with a Ctrl + F search for do not m, and didn't find anything - if anyone else want to see if they can find anything, they are welcome to - like, the Ctrl + F search doesn't work on images.Series: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles #1Ī humorous read and a spunky heroine, with a few things to be aware of regarding magical content. There are archives available here, for now. On this Yahoo Answers thread someone mentioned that it was from the Dragon magazine. I tried sending an email to the email address included in the post, but. I don't know if Brian Beattie was the first to write this line (it appears as part of his signature on that post), but the quote was there, in some form, in 1989. The Quote Investigator Twitter account responded to a request for help with an even earlier use of the quote, from Usenet ( July 10 1989):ĭo Not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for you are crunchy and go It's also apparently in the 24th of February, 1999 issue of the Plainview Daily Herald, according to this website, but their archives appear to be down (and the Wayback Machine is turning up blank). “Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,” Marceau once said, “for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.”

Okay, nobody knows where this first came from, but here's something from July 27, 1999, in the Salon magazine:Īll this, and he has a wickedly weird and original sense of humor.

'Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.'Īs for where the dragon part is from, I found a book called Dragonswan, by Sherrilyn Kenyon.īe kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup. 'And it is also said,' answered Frodo: 'Go not to the Elves for counsel for they will answer both no and yes.' 'But it is said: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

It comes from The Fellowship of the Ring: Tolkien:ĭo not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. This looks like a spoof of the quote from The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R.

Dealing with dragons