User blog comment:Ericmoro/Celebrate Hobbit Day with Wikia/@comment-3439234-20121101154327/@comment-1627201-20121102041801

That is very odd behavior indeed. I have to assume it was a bug of some sort, because none of the wikis that are participating in the webring are doing any sort of redirect like that. Sorry for the jarring experience, I know that can be shocking!