1 Lambert: Did I ever tell you about the part my uncle Bilbert played in the Siege of Riften?
1 Alvissa: Uh, no.
2 Lambert: The Queen of Riften had a military advisor, another hobbit as it turned out. Bilbert met him under a flag of truce to offer a proposal.
3 Lambert: He’d arrange some soldiers in a vulnerable position, Riften could attack, inflict some casualties, then the besiegers would go home and everyone could relax.
4 Alvissa: So what happened?
4 Lambert: The Queen’s hobbit declined.

I noticed after assigning this strip number to the Fantasy theme that it was exactly 200 strips since the last hobbit pun.

Of course, having used all of the more obvious ones, it's getting harder and harder to find something, so I'm expanding the search radius a bit to bring you today's selection.

Checkmate!