Frodo asks The Fellowship for directions. Then he asks Gollum for directions. 

Wait till the scabs learn about Saving Private Ryan!!!!!

The masculine perspective in LotR is pretty all-encompassing, it’s true. Peter Jackson even expanded Arwen’s role considerably, and she’s barely in it. She, Galadriel, and Éowyn are the only women with any particular agency or significance (unless you count Shelob.) It’s honestly pretty glaring given the immense scope…

I don’t think the Bechdal test is the end all be all of how well women characters are represented. It's a good indicator, but not the only one. For instance, there is also the Mako Mori test, which I would say LOTR passes.

Isn’t the point that these women characters are badasses in their own rights?

Nope, he faked his death. The dark lord is alive and well at the top of the Wilshire Grand Center in downtlown LA :

Yes, I found the passage to be quite well-written and vivid imagery, which is generally the best thing in literature. Perhaps you will find the same thing, when you one day become a big boy who can use uncensored swear words.

Yes, we get the idea.

There’s no way he’s coming back. Unless Disney buys the rights from Amazon for $2B or something.

*Fullling (“full-ling” in some texts).

In lieu of flowers, Sauron left a request for the genocide of Hobbits.

Wow this takes me back. The dude was a few years ahead of me in jewelry school. He always had cool stories to tell, and was always willing to split his lembas bread with anyone who was in need. Betcha the books never mention stuff like that.

I sort of imagine him being given the idea by Bill and Ted during one of their many adventures.

“thanks to the work of two halflings”

That’s the official story. I read on the internets that he was a friend of Jeffrey Epstein and the Clintons had him whacked to keep silent.

Hats off the dude who named himself “King Excellent” in Elvish. 

I think it killed my comment.

Well, he was always going on about how COVID was a hoax created by the liberal media, so this comes as no surprise.

Sauron was only an Eye in the movies. By the time of the Lord of the Rings in the books he had regained physical form, though he could never appear again in a fair guise.

My barber college textbook has a front cover of the three Nihilists chasing The Dude with giant scissors.