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Unfortunately, Disney's copyright-extension laws don't just line Disney's pockets; they stretch the copyright on the Lord of the Rings until 2050 in the United States. LoTR would have gone into the public domain in Canada this year, but they just caved to the greedy bastards and passed a...

I loved Shadow of Mordor, got kinda distracted by RL stuff when I started playing Shadow of War and never got back into it...should get it running again at some point, it's a fun game.

I agree that it's loose canon; the argument I'm making is that it's actually pretty compatible with book canon, and if anything, far more compatible with the complexities of book-canon than the very simplified take of movie canon.

The argument I'm making is that Ungoliant's offspring would be fundamentally the same sort of primordial spirit as she, and that as such, her shapeshifting ability isn't shapeshifting per se but the ability to take on an incarnate guise as she pleases, in much the same manner that Morgoth is an...

Stupid Sexy Shelob is also actually consistent with the book canon that Ungoliant and her offspring were vastly more than just "giant spiders"; they were essentially ravenous primordial spirits that just happened to take spider-form by preference. It is specifically canon that although there are...

Here is the entire relevant section of Appendix B: "After the fall of the Dark Tower and the passing of Sauron the Shadow was lifted from the hearts of all who opposed him. but fear and despair fell upon his servants and allies. Three times Lórien had been assailed from Dol Guldur. but besides...

Galadriel whom Tolkien wrote that her own mother nicknamed her, "Man-Maiden" for how tall she was and how masculine her interests were, despite being pretty? Galadriel whose "martial prowess", not her wisdom, was the defining feature of her developing years, to the point where in one version of...

What distinction are you drawing between pride and corruption? And how did they "utterly ruin" Galadriel?

That's not "shilling", that's literally the entire point of the fall of Numenor. It's about man's hubris and inherent inability to actually succeed in the long term on his own merits. Numenor succeeded due to the blessing of the Valar, but then turned away from the Valar and inevitably fell even...

It is *absolutely* a canonically authentic take that Numenor in that era was a *seemingly* idyllic paradise with only the most subtle hints of what would soon lead to its destruction. If you weren't "in" on the politics of Ar-Pharazon's inner court, you absolutely had no idea that anything was...

That is absolutely canon. Sauron absolutely *did* return to power after his great defeat by the Numenoreans purely by exploiting the fact that Numenor was already corrupt, something that allowed him to slowly go from being brought there as a prisoner to be exhibited like a zoo animal, to...

Seriously. As I mentioned in my previous posts, it's entirely in keeping with Tolkien's material that Galadriel is an utterly badass fighter, not just the "squishy pretty" that elves get stereotyped as. Her own mother's nickname for her was Nerwen -- "man-maiden" -- because she was so tall and...

Galadriel is a *vastly* more powerful individual than Elrond, so that's...not surprising? This could mean any number of things, including "Galadriel is Elrond's mother in law and doesn't like him for reasons." Corollary -- can you imagine how much more in-law drama gets with elves who live...

I'm complaining that it exceeds George Lucas levels in "that is not how relationships fucking work". And yes, it's "not very important" -- that's why it's not in the main story of LOTR at all, just the giant pile of supplementary material in the RoTK epilogue. That doesn't change the fact that...

True. Still, even with this Aragorn was twenty before he ever met Arwen, wasn't engaged for the next thirty years, and the canon does not even explicitly say that Aragorn was completely faithful to Arwen for the next thirty-nine after that. It says *she* was faithful to him, but it does not say...

Aragorn supposedly fell in love with Arwen all the way back when he was twenty, but this was very much 'fantasy BS' as he literally met her one time (and thought she was someone else, to boot!) and then did not see her again for thirty years. They became engaged on their second meeting, but...

It's likely not what Tolkien had in mind, but it is not incompatible with what he actually put down on paper. That's the standard that's being enforced by the actual Tolkien Estate -- y'know, the people who have fortunes tied to being uptight about Tolkien's intellectual property, and know...

Nonetheless, I have high hopes for this project specifically because it's under close auditing by the Tolkien Estate.

That's really weird, because in 2021 there was quite a bit of news that Amazon had secured rights to the content still controlled by the Tolkien estate, specifically because Amazon Studios was accepting quite a bit of creative control by the Tolkien estate and Tolkien experts. The Tolkien estate...

I'm saying that warrior Galadriel is explicitly more true to Tolkien's writing, which makes it completely ass backwards to complain that warrior Galadriel is a woke revision. Because if anyone was actually "raping Tolkien's corpse", it was actually Peter Jackson turning Galadriel into a squishy...