Blog: 5 Things we can Learn from Tolkien

This week is Tolkien week, which was first started in 1978 by the American Tolkien Society and starts with September 22, ending after one calendar week. That's why this week will be for the most part Tolkien-themed, except for Friday's post. So, let's talk about five things we can learn from Tolkien's work. #1: Absolute... Continue Reading →

Blog: Happy Hobbit Day – Similarities Between The Silmarillion and Beowulf.

J.R.R. Tolkien once envisioned creating a body of interconnected legends that would reflect the essence of England’s mythic past,  saying in a letter to Melton Waldman in 1951: “But once upon a time, (my crest has long since fallen) I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from... Continue Reading →

Review: Rings of Power Season 2, Episodes 5-8 (Spoilers)

Rings of Power Season 2 came to its end last week, finally releasing us from the horror that was seven weeks of non-stop bad script writing, mediocre acting, continuity errors, messed-up morality, and the destruction of Tolkien's work until Season 3 comes out if the show doesn't get cancelled first. Thank God. I'm not going... Continue Reading →

Blog: I Asked AI to Write a Script

Surely, most of us have seen the absolutely hysterical "I had a bot watch 1000 hours of [insert thing here] and write a script" posts by comedian Keaton Patti. If you haven't, here's an example of one of these scripts: Having known about these and laughed at these for a few years now, I thought... Continue Reading →

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