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 →
Review: Rings of Power Season 2, Episode 4…”I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating – and it gets everywhere.”
Do any of you guys know where that line comes from? That's right! It's from Star Wars, which can only mean that the Tuskan raiders are back in Rings of Power, so let's start with that. #1: The People of the Rhun and...Stoors? The people of Rhun don't really have much of a part to... Continue Reading →
Review: Rings of Power Season 2, Episode 3…Humanizing Evil (Spoilers).
Continuing with this series, the only good thing I have to say about episode three is that Galadriel isn't in it. Other than that, everything else is flaming garbage right out of the gate. Just from watching the third episode, I can totally understand why the very few people who tuned in Season 2 are... Continue Reading →
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