@orangeblossomordinary: But it's not the past or the British Isles, it's Middle-earth and it's fictional. Yes, Tolkien intended it as a sort of British history, but there isn't any reason it ought to be confined to actual history.

@shadoobie: I guess I think someone can be a genius and also racist or sexist or flawed in a lot of ways. He is a product of his time and of institutionalized world-wide racism, and while that doesn't make him immune to criticism, it doesn't mean he's not also a brilliant person.

@snacktastic: That's basically what I was saying. The fans are right that Tolkien wouldn't have cast POC as hobbits, but that's a bad thing that we have a chance to correct.

I adore Tolkien and studied him extensively in college. The man was a genius who invented not just a language but an entire universe complete with a detailed creation story, thousands of years of history, and painstaking geographical details (the Silmarillion literally has a chapter on topographical details of Middle…

@Jessica Coen: After reading this article I had to take a few days to calm down (and you know, eat turkey), but I wanted to add my voice to this "apology."

@tiredfairy: It's probably because they're modeling their ideas after Jonathan Swift's brother James' piece, A Reasonable Proposal: I'm Not Saying I Hate The Irish, I Just Think They're Lazy and Need To Pull Themselves Up by the Bootstraps.

@Snarfblat: If it is, it's a miserable failure.

@TediousCharm: I can't figure out why she passed up that great opportunity to feel empowered.

So... lighted up and have more sex with aggressive douche bags? Thanks for that advice I've never gotten from every douche bag that wants to sleep with me.

That's funny, because I have no empathy for rich people.

As long as the suffocation dangers are addressed (assuming they can be) I just can't see how either choice could possibly ruin a child. I can think of a lot of reasons sleeping with a kid would be really annoying for me, but it's hard to imagine anyone being militantly for or against this in general.

@SookieIsTheAntiBella: What the article left out is that this woman is only one week pregnant!

@yeahisaidit: Is it really damaging to one's self esteem to be told that the human body is capable of gross, albeit amazing and necessary to our existence, things?

DON'T LOOK... but there is some kind of... human inside of you.

I just threw up a little.

@defectivesealion001: Whole foods is expensive. Wegmans is the best.

@Ms.Frost:

@Ms.Frost:

@Ms.Frost:

I'm sorry, that's all wrong. The following is acceptable Thanksgiving attire: