Most of the the LotR fandom I’m aware of is overwhelmingly female. And those that aren’t are pretty easygoing. One of the chillest fandoms I’ve seen. I guess there are a few super religious fans?

In the very vaguest sense, yes. But I doubt they know much of the details. Honestly, this time period makes tons of sense. Plenty of violence, easily understood but interesting politics, and elves and humans interacting.

Are fans familiar with Numenor? I feel like they’re pretty vague on how it all went down. 

This comment sounds like you’re trying to make some kind of point.

I mean, it reads to me that the author of the article sat back and let him just destroy himself with quote after ridiculous quote.

He wins the Prince Andrew award for painfully counterproductive PR interviews.

I mean, to be fair to him, he was talking about the comics he loved as a kid. So his crush on Kitty makes sense. But he seemed so unselfaware of the way he was ultimately putting value in female characters based on whether he thought they were attractive. 

So you view young people manipulated by the older and more powerful to be “dumb”. How charming.

“I’m just too smart for these ladies. Too smart for them to realize how nice I am!”

You mean he’s was in a good position to find vulnerable young people to exploit?

How convenient for him that he keeps stumbling across these 20-year old intellectual giants!

And, even worse, it sounds like he was nasty to the women who didn’t match his ideal female body-type.

On the intro to Fray, he went on about how Kitty Pryde was his favorite character and he wanted more characters like her. Which, cool! But then he went on about her body and how he wasn’t into the usual buxom superheroine types. And I realized, at the time, that he somehow believed being attracted to slimmer,…

The number of times in a single article where he essentially has to say that someone is just remembering an interaction wrong is (not) astonishing. Sounds like a clear case of someone shocked they are meeting so many assholes all day long.

Not so easily done since the branded sets tend to increase the volume of pieces with very specific uses.

Already done:

A bad example since that wasn’t in the book.  The happy-naturally-servile-slaves-who-love-being-slaves were waaaay worse as far as stereotypes go. 

Isn’t that something you would take up with the directors? It’s not in the books. That “joke” was a movie-addition. 

She’s credited as one of three writers.

Aren’t those just examples of people doing things when they were young? It’s not like tattoos rub off.