Jack Law's Lord of the Rings Thread.

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'On Thursday, Warner Bros Discovery’s CEO, David Zaslav, announced on an earnings call that a deal had been brokered to make “multiple” films based on JRR Tolkien’s books.'
 
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version said:
'On Thursday, Warner Bros Discovery’s CEO, David Zaslav, announced on an earnings call that a deal had been brokered to make “multiple” films based on JRR Tolkien’s books.'
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Give it a decade and they'll be dramatizing Volume XIX of The History of Middle-earth, The Collected Shopping Lists and Phone-call Doodles of J. R. R. Tolkien (ed. Christopher Tolkien).
 
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Go to Mount Doom
Cast these SSRIs into the mouth of Sauron
He'll calm down, feel a little emotionally flat and put on a few stone
But otherwise problem solved
 
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What the actual?

Italy’s far right embraces Middle-earth as PM opens Tolkien show | Italy | The Guardian

Giorgia Meloni’s involvement highlights government’s growing interest in shaping output of Italy’s cultural institutions
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In her 2021 autobiography-cum-political manifesto I Am Giorgia, Meloni described Tolkien’s 1954 fantasy epic as a “sacred” text. As a youth activist in the post-fascist Italian Social Movement, Meloni had visited schools dressed as a hobbit...
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Might have mentioned earlier in this thread that if you search for urukai/orc memes you'll quickly discover some horrible stuff comparing sauron's armies to muslim immigrants/refugees. And ofc some of the norweigan black metal nazis were big Tolkien nerds.
 
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"Tolkien is the wen on the arse of fantasy literature. His oeuvre is massive and contagious - you can't ignore it, so don't even try. The best you can do is consciously try to lance the boil. And there's a lot to dislike - his cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his boys-own-adventure glorying in war, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos, his belief in absolute morality that blurs moral and political complexity. Tolkien's clichés - elves 'n' dwarfs 'n' magic rings - have spread like viruses. He wrote that the function of fantasy was 'consolation', thereby making it an article of policy that a fantasy writer should mollycoddle the reader.

That is a revolting idea, and one, thankfully, that plenty of fantasists have ignored. From the Surrealists through the pulps - via Mervyn Peake and Mikhael Bulgakov and Stefan Grabinski and Bruno Schulz and Michael Moorcock and M. John Harrison and I could go on - the best writers have used the fantastic aesthetic precisely to challenge, to alienate, to subvert and undermine expectations."

- China Mieville
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I mean I loved 'Things fall apart' and all but can't you go easy on the mollycoddling and the hobbits etc?
 
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China Mieville is infamous for attending drum'n'bass nights while wearing shiny black leather trousers.

mistersloane said:
Not personal at all - the Doc has spoken on a few conferences that he's spoken on too, but I never met the guy, I just tried to read a coupla his books from the library and was shocked at how badly written they were. That's all.

Ok and I kinda really hate people who wear leather trousers, and I just know he does.
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Say what you like about hobbits, but Tolkien never wore leather trousers.
 
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