Well there is the MMO that has been running for 16 years...

All they had to do was steal the formula from Styx: Master of Shadows but nooooo

Common definitions of complicated concepts are often wrong, such as the first definition you listed. Sex and gender are different, but often related, concepts.

I see you’re doing the same thing JKR does: claim that trans women are men, and that men are dangerous to women, therefore allowing trans women to use the women’s restroom puts other women in danger.

It is a stretch to take that statement and then say she’s “explicitly stated that she considers support for the HP franchise to be support for her”. Because it seriously stretches the definition of “explicitly”. At best you could say she implies it. But frankly you could also read it a dozen other ways.

I would take you less time to Google why Rowling is transphobic than it took you to type out this comment, much less expect someone to reply to it.

Yes, you nailed it, let’s disregard the disclaimer right above that paragraph. Fucking troglodyte. Clip Chimping 101 right here!

I understand not wanting to support anti-Trans billionaire JK Rowling 1,000%. I’m not defending any part of that revolting cunt’s war on the Trans community.

If he wasn’t dead already, that sentence would’ve killed him.

Christopher Tolkien died. Two years ago. Pretty sure he’s past giving a shit. 

Kinda my point. It’s not Jackson design either so no one is going to go to court over it.

To be fair Jackson’s Balrog design wasn’t unique.  Plenty of LOTR inspired art looked like what showed up on screen 

I’ve heard that Christopher’s  issues with the LOTR movies was less about the quality and more about the fact that the WB got the rights to make the movie for next to nothing in the 70s in a deal that didn’t require any sort of profit share with the Tolkien estate.

I don’t think he’ll care either way given that he died two years ago.

To be fair, MGM was going through a financial crisis and that delayed hobbit by a year or so. Del toro was rightfully unwilling to hang around new Zealand away from his family for an indefinite time period, so that’s why he left hobbit. Presumably the project would have collapsed if Jackson hadn’t directed.

I can say with 100 percent certainty that he won’t be mad at Amazon regardless of how the show plays out.

“also the Tolkien estate, whose chief representative, J.R.R. Tolkien’s son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkien, has been vocal in the past about his distaste for Jackson’s films.”

With Christopher death, the Tolkien Estate are worthless clowns who cash checks.

I binged the series, on a day when I was depressed and would do anything to procrastinate confronting my problems, and found it to be an uncanny valley imitation of a good show, rather than actually being a good show (not good enough to enjoy for being good, not bad or self-aware enough to enjoy as campy).