Whatever the Barrow-wights are, they are absolutely not the ghosts of Men buried in the barrows. The Downs of Tyrn Gorthad are absolutely ancient and go all the way back to the First Age, but they were built by the ancestors of Edain, not followers of Morgoth, and the later Dúnedain considered them a sacred place and…

This show is so bad, and the next season is going to be a feast for youtube rants.

That seems so dumb, even for this show. Why would there be barrow-wights hanging around pestering Tom Bombadil? And why would he be bothered by them - he casually breaks their power in the books with a song without even being perturbed by them.

Well, the Barrow Wights better not show up in their LotR haunts, considering that they were only summoned there by the Witch-King of Angmar during the Third Age. Exactly what they are or where they come from is one of those details that Tolkien never elaborated on; he originally envisioned them as a lesser version of…

Never mind all that, I want Zaslav to come back and pontificate more on the differences between girl viewers and boy viewers.

Wait, they realized that marketing under “HBO,” a brand name that was already well known for putting out good and innovative shows, was better than “Max,” a name which was not just new, but essentially meaningless?

HBO had just one thing going for it as a streaming service: its brand.

The find indicates that the ancient sailors had better navigation skills than known.

Apropos of nothing, really, but I love short, curvy, mouthy brunettes, so it pains me to compare Donald to Snooki. People made fun of her, and I don’t really love her style. But if you don’t think that she could take care of business in the bedroom, you must have missed a memo. You can’t let snobbery get in the way of…

“any kind of undercooked meat is liable to have germs or parasites”

What people think quicksand looks like.

I lived in the New York metro area — okay, okay, Westchester — from 1988 to 1992. You could not not know who this guy was in that place at that time. He was kind of a bad taste golem — officially the richest guy in town, but also a jerk so huge and so tasteless that it was difficult to believe he existed. There was a…

Bloom County definitely did. The premise was that Trump was in an accident, his body was irreparably damaged and the doctors needed to put his brain in another body, so they chose a comatose Bill the Cat.  

Geez, really? I remember reading Bloom County (or maybe it was Doonesbury) comics, when I was a kid in the 80s, mocking Trump. I remember pointing out in 2015 that he’d already been a punchline for 30 years.

The right answer is that Janet paid too steep a price for her carefully orchestrated publicity stunt.

One things that’s really weird about Trump’s success is that I never got the impression he was especially admired before he went all political. If you’d asked me 15 years ago which non-politician celebs were most likely to be president someday, he wouldn’t have been high on my list.

I agree; notwithstanding, I imagine there’s also I sense of adolescent imperviousness and delusional entitlement involved.

i’m dying laughing at you defending this like your life is on the line.

Does anybody honestly believe nipplegate wasn’t planned out beforehand?

Did you not watch TV in the late 90s and early 2000s? Justin used a blaccent regularly.