Would you rather be forced to memorize lists of words or be made up and paraded around like a doll?

How Spicer sleeps at night I have no idea. He must just be an empty void, incapable of thought or evaluation or judgment. Unlike Trump, who is divorced from reality and actually thinks all of this is right and ok and good, Spicer knows exactly what he's doing and just keeps doing it. It's sort of amazing to see.

Borin Oakendong was a much better name, for sure.

Oh Trotter. How no one misses you at all.

And Frodo was for many drafts named "Bingo." So. Just imagine that.

Not all of Tolkien's invented place names translate well to speech. It's very hard to pronounce properly and you sound stupid even if you do.

I am, too, but I can certainly understand why some people bristle at it.

We're both right and both wrong. Definitely not worth going to the floor with a hammer over. Christopher's whole life and career has been caretaking his father's legacy. There's no way that's not exploitative and greedy on some level, but Christopher basically did that when Tolkien was alive, too, so it's much less…

In LotR it was, if not good, at least justified by context. I like the idea, though I didn't particularly care for the execution.

I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about. There's only one Dune book.

Well, it is and it isn't. Christopher certainly made it his life's work to edit and publish as much of his father's work as possible during his (Christopher's) lifetime. We don't really know what Tolkien would've felt about that, but Christopher is seemingly motivated more by a tremendous respect and affection for his…

Indeed, by the time of Tolkien's death, Galadriel was probably the most important and potentially most powerful person (by that I mean non-divine rather than human) in all of Middle Earth's history.

I can think of worse movies.

Christopher is going to discover the secret to immortality just so he can stay alive longer than Jackson to make sure Jackson never gets his paws on anything else.

Tolkien's extended legendarium was written as an experiment in philology, mythmaking, and language-construction. It's also, somewhat oddly, the medium he used to express his more controversial academic theories.

Percy Jackson awakes from the gutter he slept in, also fully erect, but that's because he was sleeping next to Alexandra Daddario.

I still cannot find a good explanation for whether this is actually new, previously unreleased material, or just a re-editing of drafts that had been released as portions of the History of Middle Earth and/or the Silmarillion.

Right. They use names to sell movies. Voice actors aren't names, though the rise in profile of video games is helping to change that.

Based on poll numbers, I think it's pretty clear that the numerical majority of the country is pretty rational, but decades of GOP anti-logic, anti-science, anti-compromise rhetoric and gerrymandering has disproportionately concentrated electoral authority in favor of those who aren't. So, yes, the GOP really has…

I've been asking this for 30 years and the answer seems to be, simply, that you get a lot more positive reaction (read box office) by attaching a big name to a movie than you do by having a great performance by someone whose name they don't recognize.