Also love the integration allegory with almost no people of color.

Most of this back story is contained in the Silmarillion and assorted Lost Tales.

I am a hunkycorn. Half hummingbird. Half donkey... and half unicorn.

Haha, I know!

It was really funny. It's hard to appreciate how edgy it was at the time because so many Nick and Adult Swim shows have since been inspired by shows like that Bevis and Butthead and Daria.

Which also starred Will Forte.

Funny thing, Will Forte has played Abraham Lincoln twice for these guys. Both in Clone High and The Lego Movie.

And Clone High.

Good thing he found the Red Book of Westmarch before any other crusty Oxford professors got their paws on it.

I've seen the BBC version and not sure which is the "gay bar." Is it the bar they have the bachelor party in? The one where Sherlock drunkenly bragged about knowing ash.

He describes it so prettily, it's almost like he wrote it XD

I doubt they are. But holy fucking shit that would be hot if they were...

Yes, I believe you are using the correct terms.

I'm very aware of that, but if he intentionally brought Ireland into the conversation, he may have been trying to get all the mythology to tie together.

Which would dove-tail nicely into Irish mythology. They believed they shared Ireland with the Sidhe, (barrow people) who were essentially elves or fairies (interchangeable concepts at the time).

He borrowed all kinds of things, including names and whole stories, from existing Norse myth. Maybe Greek myth was too passe for him to admit to haha

Oh, no! Where did you read that? Now I'm sad. I thought they lived forever :(

But now we win at the internet...so we've got that going for us... which is nice.

I DON'T BELIEVE THAT FOR ONE MINUTE! It's very pointedly thrown out as a final piece of information as Numenor is sinking into the ocean. He back engineered so much language to his designs. Frodo and Bilbo's names are even that. The books are written in English, supposedly translated from Westron, and their names are…

Just wanted to add there were a few exceptions to the "no mortals" in the undying lands rule. Bilbo and Frodo both went because they were deemed to have deserved it, for carrying the One Ring and helping destroy Sauron, and they also traveled out on an elven ship stocked with elves, not to mention a Maia (Gandalf) so…