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I thought that was because the people doing it were hippies taken in by his naturalistic themes (and most likely, considering how diametrically opposed their worldviews were in all other regards, little to nothing else). Goes to speak of LOTR's universal appeal that both they & their...

Frankly, I don't know how anyone could possibly contend that Tolkien wouldn't approve of Stupid Sexy Shelob and in fact write The Two Towers with exactly this in mind, thereby making it 110% canonical, when there's a recording of him saying as much. I mean, c'mon people. A 'vast bloated bag...

I think like 99% of the RoP writers' problems fundamentally come down to their worldview being so completely antithetical to Tolkien's, that they are quite literally unable to comprehend his themes and characters and thus must make up their own out of whole (woke) cloth to substitute for it all...

I refuse to give Amazon money & time by watching this, and frankly I probably won't even waste my time watching this like a Corsair of Umbar would. But from what I've heard from multiple sources, it is true that the show starts with young Galadriel being bullied by other Elf boys who sink a...

So apparently Amazon's Elrond will be gay. You know, Elrond - that guy who happily married Celeborn & Galadriel's daughter Celebrían and had three kids (including Arwen, Aragorn's future wife) with her. The reviewer cited by the article even notes that the decision was fairly obviously made...

The first part of the text refers to an entirely separate battle from the attack on Dol Guldur, same as Thranduil's engagement with the northward-facing host from that fortress in Mirkwood. I think it's quite clear that when Tolkien wrote that Celeborn led the Galadhrim counterattack, he meant...

Berúthiel would pretty much have been the modern female SJW incarnate. A cat lady, full of cynical hatred for everything around her (especially anything and anyone of beauty), petty and casually cruel, extremely interested in spying on others, and of course an utterly loveless spouse who brought...

This is not only not the worst idea, something like it was done in the MERP game from the '90s. In their first edition (IIRC the supplementary book was called Gorgoroth) they made one of the Nazgûl a woman, specifically a Númenórean lady named Adûnaphel. Now while one of the Nazgûl straight up...

If anything, Galadriel's shown to be at her most powerful when she has embraced the 'ultra-feminine elfin sage' character for which she's best known from both the actual LOTR books and the movies alike. The Kinslaying at Alqualondë was the only time where we're told she certainly took up a sword...

Those pictures of Tar-Míriel in armor (including what appears to be a literal shirt in scale armor pattern under her cuirass?...) and leading the Númenórean army indicate that Amazon is going to make her into another mega-badass yas slayyy queen type who leads from the front and can fight with...

It's not even that blacks living outside of Africa are lacking in cool stories about their ancestors, necessarily. American blacks, for example, should be pointing to the likes of the 54th Massachusetts (a regiment of free blacks who fought in the ACW and whose assault on Fort Wagner was made...

I'd have liked to watch a LOTR prequel where the 'diversity' actually made sense. Set the stage in Rhûn and give me Jet Li or whoever as Khamul the Easterling back when he was still a Man, with the likes of Andrew Koji (Warrior, 2019) and Joe Taslim (also Warrior, The Raid and other action...