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To say this show is terrible is an insult to the word "terrible". Even before I had started reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion and Lord of the Rings, I thought the show was innately bad. I had grown up on the Peter Jackson film adaptations and was expecting a show that would have the same... Continue Reading →
Amazon's Rings of Power T.V. show is doubling down on the racism accusations as diehard Tolkien fans express their concerns for the next season of the show. Why? Because that seemed to work so well for them before. After all, Rings of Power is only the most expensive show ever created, the budget being close... Continue Reading →
The 4th of July is often seen as a time to throw BBQ parties in the backyard, drink copius amounts of alcohol, then watch Jerry accidently get his face blown off after sticking it over a firework that he thought was a dud. Fun times for us all (except for Jerry). Truly, this explosive type... Continue Reading →
Last year for Christmas, I asked for two things that I didn't realize would lead me down a rabbit hole of lore and change the way I write and those things were The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. Why? I asked for them because while I was raised on Tolkien's works and the... Continue Reading →
At the beginning of the world there was nothing. Literally nothing except for Chaos, the void of which everything began. Japanese mythology doesn’t say if Chaos was a sentient being, but, one day something strange happened in the primordial soup. Particles appeared within Chaos and started moving around and creating something. From those particles... Continue Reading →
Rick Riordan's newest book, The Sun and the Star is the first standalone book from the author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Co-authored by "gender-queer LatinX" Y.A author, Mark Oshiro, The Sun and the Star focuses on the fan favorite character, Nico di Angelo, the son of the Greek god, Hades. The book takes... Continue Reading →
I realize that this view has been expressed by many people after Divergent's release in 2011 and its later movie adaptation in 2014, but after reading the entire Divergent trilogy in 2022, my thoughts on this book series can no longer be contained. As someone who has read a lot of young adult fiction ranging... Continue Reading →
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