For one thing, the official map of the show uses a drawing of Numenor that only appears in Unfinished Tales. 

Eli does seem to identify as a girl, but you’re right that we’re shown she has been castrated, and it feels disappointing that both American adaptations have dropped that aspect.

Edit: I just remembered that Eli also says “I’m not a girl” so you’re right

What I’ve found that is a bit interesting, is the motivation aside from the hoax. He did it in part as a joke, but you also look at his place in life - he had graduated high school but struggled with several false starts at college and by 30 had flunked out and felt like his life had hit a dead end, and he says he’d…

“King Elrond” I don’t think Elrond is really a king of anything.

Because modern American ideology has always been troublingly compatible with fascism, and continues to be even after World War II

My crackpot theory, since he seems to be in the story with the hobbit looking guys, is that he’s Tolkien’s take on the Man in the Moon from hobbit folklore - Frodo sings a song about him in the Prancing Pony, but there’s another poem that he appears in in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil that contains the line,

The last one also included Jerod Carmichael, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Quentin Tarantino. Sounds like they might have a regular game night!

I’m a Star Wars fan who would be excited to talk about The Bad Batch. I didn’t know there was more negativity towards this show, people I interact with seem to like it. :( 

Hey HEY!!

Right, and an asexual person does not feel sexual attraction to anyone, which also makes them not straight. To assume that no attraction means someone is straight frames being straight as a default, that is heteronormativity. They would be equally unattracted towards their partner of the opposite sex as they would be…

The same way a bisexual man wouldn’t be. 

Asexuals aren’t straight, by definition. If you mean characters who aren’t treated as gay (meaning they’re not shown having romantic tension with people of the same sex) there has been a lot of discourse regarding Daryl on The Walking Dead being asexual. Todd from BoJack Horseman, probably the most prominent openly…

Yeah, it is really starting to feel that way to me too. We’re 2-2 on recent MCU movies featuring TV actors in their role. (And even before that, there was also James D’Arcy as Jarvis in Endgame - it’s like they’re seeding them in.)

His list also included LGBTQ+ people and minority activists (like Paul Robeson, who he deemed “anti-white”).

Yes, the first movie literally opens with him having already finished his manuscript for the book. That was the most disappointing part to me at the time.

He also dated a 19-year-old for a while while he was 32.

It’s because the showrunner is Julian Fellowes, a Tory peer in the House of Lords. So this is an openly conservative take on the Gilded Age. Which is somewhat maddening, because class-based oppression is kind of the whole story of the era. A show like this would kind of need to be Succession like to be any good.

I feel like unfortunately the only country with those kind of balls would be China, and I don’t think they care too much about what goes on in other countries (outside of their B+R thing), and if they did the USA would never take it seriously, and the media would never portray it in a positive light.

Bobbi had also been an agent for quite some time by her first appearance though. For example, she was already an agent before her divorce with Lance (and I think before they were even married).

No one is going to comment that this seems to be like the original Hamlet story? The main character is named Amleth, it’s set in Denmark, and he wants to “save” his mother from the man who murdered his father (probably because she’s married to him).