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I don't doubt it - he could make the phone book sound good. Look, I'm not denying that there is some good dialogue in Tolkien, just as...

Have you listened to the audiobooks of LotR as read by Andy Serkis? He brings the dialogue to life.

He was never satisfied with Orcs. He didn't want them to be irredeemable but he never wrote any objectively heroic ones either. They...

I think that how many second world creators for TTRPGs and fiction novels imagine Tolkien's world-building is heavily skewed by what...

He's a complete outlier, whose style was wildly out of synch with 20th century literary trends. In many ways, he could be considered a...

Here's the neat thing about Tolkien: if there is anything you have a theory about, you can find writing from.the Professor about it. If...

The only entities called "wizards" in Tolkien's work are Maiar. Humans/Numenoreans using magic are referred to as a "sorcerer", and all...

When considering what is true or maybe true about Middle Earth, you absolutely cannot just rely on The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings...

They might have had. There's plenty of stuff in the History of Middle-earth series, and I'm sorry I can't remember which volumes now...

Depends on how much beans she's been eating.

They figure the quote is from a Patagonia catalog or maybe one of those "van life" conversion companies.

A local drive-in was running them as a double-feature, and apparently packed their lot.

I'm in the same boat with A24. They are the studio that continues to impress me with their innovation; they are the ones pushing...

While they aren't all $10m, I'd say that the batting averages of A24 and Neon movies are pretty good. Even their mediocre movies are...