Oh trust me, there are plenty of racists who like Tolkien.

Why is there, um, scarring on her eyebrows?

It’s more about actively refusing to actively DE-colonize. You just keep the system going.

A corporation saying nothing is, according to Jon Oliver, always the right play.

I saw that movie. In theaters. There were even other people in the theater, though one of them was a guy showing his girl ATHF on his cell phone before the movie started.

Hey, the wedding industry is really big in Nepal. (That’s not a joke; it is)

You’re thinking of the Jameses.

I have a degree in British history and even I get the Edwards mixed up.

It’s almost as if this website is a paid publicity machine.

I can’t believe that when I saw the Sopranos episode name - “Long-term Parking” I remembered that I knew the episode as being super important, and spent the next 5 seconds trying to figure out what episode it was (too late for the Meadow college trip, too early for the finale) before looking it up. And I haven’t…

When I see black and white groups in a small, isolated community where they would all marry each other, a part of my brain does go, “They should all be black or have mid-tones. The genes for having a lot of melanin in your skin are dominant and the genes for having pale skin are recessive.”

They didn’t miscalculate on abortion. They created a base of voters who will vote for them no matter what based on the issue of abortion (to be fair, the Democrats did it too) and it has carried people into positions of power for decades. And it will continue, because people will continue to vote yes/no based on…

They made ONE really good Marvel movie, Winter Soldier, and then they got the reins to a lot of high-profile Avengers movies that had groups of writers already staffed for it and ended up making very little sense. I can’t think of another thing the Russo Brothers have done that I’ve really liked.

Why don’t you buy them back with your HEI points?!?

Isn’t there a behind-the-scenes aftershow for one of the award shows where Gregg discusses his real feelings on the Hobbit? I’ve never been able to find it and I’m a subscriber.

It is if the announcement that it happened makes the stock price go up!

Yes, true crime can be exploitative but it’s more complex than that, because sometimes true crime can be empowering or change things for the better. It seems like (rightfully so) this woman is going through a lot, but that doesn’t really determine whether a documentary gets made or not.

First of all, in LOTR and the Quenta Silmarillion, it’s mainly greed over jewelry. Someone makes something so nice they become obsessed with it, and everybody wants it. I don’t remember if the silmarils even did anything or they were just very shiny. Tolkien is known for his literary genius, but not when it comes to…

It’s like they picked all of the British actors that look the most like snarky action figures to play the elves.

Couldn’t it be some early Ur-Istari we don’t know about? There’s not an accounting of how many Maia there were. This could be just one who showed up in this age and wasn’t around for the events of LOTR.