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Well, if we're relating it to the term "canon", the most accurate term here would probably be "apocrypha". Of course, there's such a thing as competing and overlapping canons. The Aeneid is not part of the Homeric canon (being basically a fanfic spin-off), but is part of the so-called Classical...

I mentioned Tolkien Untangled's take on a Second Age television series a few days ago. Yesterday, the final part was posted: This is how it could and should be done. As I already said: when you view this sequence of YouTube videos -- which display real love for, and loyalty to, Tolkien's...

People are free to like what they want. The real trouble is that there are no standards at all. The great project f egalitarianism has dragged everything down to the lowest common denominator, and so there is only "mass culture" now. Which has subsequently been perverted utterly, and turned into...

I don't know what's more depressing: the malignant agents that seek to distort and subvert and turn everything to shit, or the cattle that's been lulled into uncritical complacency to such an extent that it not only chews and swallows the shit-- but calls it perfectly acceptable nourishment!

Tolkien was and is the Grand Master. His work is a masterpiece that is not only a majestic work of fiction, but a true mythology in its own right, drawn from the traditions of Northern Europe. Furthermore, it is intrinsically imbued with Tolkien's traditionalist, localist, anti-modern, and...

If you want a really fantastic take on what a Second Age television series could (and should) have been, take a look at he awesome videos made by Tolkien Untangled. It completely rips apart the Amazon production, and shows how a much better -- indeed, fantastic -- series could have been crafted...

Poe's Law in action. I genuinely can't tell if you're being sacastic, or if you just have really low standards and/or a very limited understanding of the source material that you say is being "respected" here.

Leagues better than the original. I didn't even feel like clawing my eyes out.

Responding here to something @Earl linked in conversation: Because that actually strikes me as an unfair insult to Abrams. Which implies all sorts of horrors about the unmigitated shit-show disaster that is "The Rings of Power". Sure, Abrams is wholly devoid of ideas, and only capable of...

The shill, in keeping with its twisted nature, continues to peddle falsehoods. @Circle of Willis does not let the lies slip by unnoticed, and calls them out. The shill, no doubt, will ignore the evidence, refuse to admit to any error, and will soon return to peddle the same or similar untruths...

Racist! Goblin lives matter!

A shill is a shill is a shill. We've now had dozens of incidents where this guy maliciously posts all sorts of falsehoods, is called out for it, refuses to engage, tries to cherry-pick points to derail the discussion... and then comes back a bit later and posts the same false claims again. He...

As always, the shill refuses to engage with criticism, and tries to shift the burden of proof to others, on cherry-picked points, while deliberately ignoring the many, many points on which others have already thoroughly disproven his false claims. @ShadowArxxy is truly the lowest of scummy...

It's hilarious how you consistently shill, but every single time you're called out, you pretend it's just an isolated case of you making a supposedly valid argument, instead of just you grasping at straws to justify every possible thing any progressive culture-raper might possibly do. This...

"Wherever I go, I must also shill." -- @ShadowArxxy, no doubt Seriously, gather up your last ounce of self-respect and cease this pathetic behaviour.

"Melkor spent his spirit in envy and hate, until at last he could make nothing save in mockery of the thought of others, and all their work he destroyed if he could."

That's purely an appeal to authority, and I'm with @Aldarion on that one. They clearly don't give a fuck about anything but pretense and money anymore. Not after Christopher Tolkien's passing. Which, incidentally, just goes to underpin the oft-noted pattern that virtually all family fortunes and...

There we go. The shill unmasks himself, and reveals his shameless lack of dignity. "Multicultural feminist progressive intersectional Middle-Earth is TOTALLY in line with what Tolkien intended, you guys!" Nobody believes you. It is well-established that Tolkien wanted to build a mythology for...

Shippey left the project two years ago, just to be clear. (And there have been pretty strong indications that his involvement was only ever a cynical attempt to fake legitimacy and deflect scrutiny. He departed, it seems, when he realised that they only wanted his name, not his actual expertise.)

Two kinds of people. One is "it's going to suck, but I hope it's at least as good as possible" and the other is "I'm going to enjoy the hell out of this trash-can fire".