Of course...Amazon is Sauron in the second age, still able to seem fair and tempt the world of men and elves with gifts. “For a mighty kingdom is Netflix, and yet they will not share with me its content. Can it be that they do not desire to see other services become as blissful as their own?”

Um... I think maybe *you* don’t.

His comment made sense. He’s saying that we still don’t have a proper, purist’s dream version of LoTR. Those films? We got a version of the story in which Sam abandons his master and Legolas seems to have taken up surfing.

It’s like saying, “Hey, we’ve done a version of Romeo and Juliet…

Thank you.

That last one is truly Thorinspired.

What We Do In the Shadow of the Past

I’m still hoping for a more unique version of LOTR; I figure LOTR fundamentalists more or less got their version already, now it’s time to change things up.

The Disney motto: “We Will Eventually Own Everything You Love”

That’s depressing. That would make for an interesting post, though!

Nothing published after 1923 in the US has entered the public domain (unless the owners neglected to renew copyright), and, if Disney has its way, nothing ever will.

While the movies were in their initial release, it was popular to treat Christopher as some sort of ogre that was denying audiences what they wanted. But his protectiveness over his father’s works should be respected. It was for him that The Hobbit was originally written. It was him who first read The Lord of the…

There and back again and another thing...

The Hobbit was published in 1937...

Then there’s this guy:

There’s actually a really easy dialogue solution to this.

Ermahgerd ERM MAHRER PERPERNS YERL! 

It’s pretty as an angel.

winner

“I’M SCARY POPPINS, Y’ALL!”

It really pissed me off when I thought we were at war with Eurasia, only to be told that, in fact, we were at war with Eastasia and had always been at war with Eastasia.