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I thought he was best in Community where the whole point is that he’s initially an &$$hole. Just watched Tokyo Godfathers at the...

Honestly I always thought that was just the base American trope - clueless WASP, seems something of the SNL standard.* * note I am not...

Watched it this evening and honestly, it’s a lot better than I expected - it’s consistent and well thought out, and has a solid...

We just watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Most of my family members like it, including my kid, but I really hate that film...

We didn't grow up on the Rankin and Bass specials, my mom found the animation creepy or something, but my favourite special that I don't...

Exactly my understanding. Yup! Thorin as well (The Daring, or Bold). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dwarfs_in_Norse_mythology

Elves sort of dwell partially in the spirit world and that connection fuels their creations as well. It's where their "magic" comes...

Agreed. This also somewhat parallels the language used to reference the sun in one of the riddles in The Hobbit's famous riddle game...

Book 4, Chapter 6: the Forbidden Pool Another rare error in this printing of the book, describing Sam surreptitiously following Frodo...

Not an error, just a bit of an archaic prose flourish.

See also Oppenheimer's "I am become Death, destroyer of worlds."

Similarly, "doom" here is an archaicism, meaning more generally "decree" or "administrative decision", but Tolkien knew to a modern...

The dwarves also lost Ered Mithrin in the north to a cold dragon.. The elves forged a number of lesser rings that were not tainted by...

I always read that passage as a literal log with eyes. Gollum hanging onto a floating log with his eyes just above the log in an effort...

Book 4, Chapter 1: the Taming of Sméagol Darkly amusing that for all his earlier fussing about needing rope, Sam nearly forgets about...