Those Horrible White Children
“It’s just nice we don’t have to hide our activism… We don’t have to hide who we are.”
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
“It’s just nice we don’t have to hide our activism… We don’t have to hide who we are.”
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
“We need to find some, like, Dexter, sort of like a vigilante, taking people out. You know the show, Dexter?”
That’s just all…what’s that word…conspiracy theory. Yeah. Conspiracy. And as we all know, us smart people anyway, conspiracies don’t work on any sort of a large scale because, eventually as they get larger, someone either screws up or breaks down and lets the cat out of the bag. So what you’re showing here is obviously made up right-wing propaganda. You’re all part of a cult or something.
You know the show, Dexter?”
Saying the quiet part out loud.
We don’t have to hide who we are.”
So activists, not teachers.
Fire them all. Start over.
So activists, not teachers.
Racist activists.
Actually, I DO think we need a Dexter type. Except she may not like how I see him operating. Imagine, if you will, random assassinations of seemingly ordinary people, such as that neighbor who has decided to become an IRS cop or is found dead and impaled by their own “Hate Has No Home Here” lawn sign. No rhyme, no reason, just to leave the thought of “Could I be next?” I feel those of the more progressive bent would be quite paralyzed by the uncertainty.
Ya know, I gotta stop listening to those true crime podcasts or reading Kurt Shlichter before bed . . .
Ghillie suits.
Via the resurrected Libs of TicTak, a doctor advertises. (Some language caution)
I’m aware of people in education (in the UK) who see it as their duty to counteract what they perceive to be the various lies and omissions spread by hateful rightwing propaganda.
By “hateful rightwing propaganda”, they invariably mean The Sun (“racist”), The Daily Mail (“very racist”), The Daily Telegraph (“Reactionary bigots”), Sky News (“Corporate shills”) and, initially somewhat more surprisingly, BBC News (the hatred of which can effectively be summed up as “Why haven’t they fired that bitch Laura Kuenssberg yet?”).
Social Media has expanded “hateful rightwing propaganda” to also include politics in other countries (notably, Trump), but mainly Youtube channels: P J Watson (“racist conspiracy theorist”), Carl Benjamin/The Lotus Eaters (“rapey, racist of Swindon”) and now defunct Reddit communities (“rapey racists International”).
In their view, roughly speaking, there has been an institutional capture of the mainstream media by soulless and profit-driven Capitalist magnates who use their media outlets to manipulate the democratic process, spreading hatred and racism as a way of distracting the populace from noticing how they are being exploited for profit.
By “manipulate the democratic process”, they basically mean their predictions turning out to be wrong (again) – the Leave vote beating out the Remain vote for Brexit in 2016 (“What?!?”) and the devastating collapse of support for Labour under Jeremy Corbyn in the 2019 General Election (“How?!?”).
Since both of these catastrophic defeats are perceived to have been essentially impossible, both require extraordinary evidence to explain them.
Bypassing completely the possibility that people might actually choose the media that best reflects their worldview rather than reflect the worldview provided by their chosen media (not to mention the possibility that their own worldview might be in need of revision), they proceed straight to the conclusion that it is their duty and responsibility to proselytise their own views, which of course are correct, for the benefit of their pupils, society, the environment, and the world.
Naturally, they were already doing this before 2016, so that justification has stayed pretty much the same. But what has changed is the feeling that they must have previously underestimated the power and influence of the dark forces opposing them and so only an all-out massive effort can hope to counteract the pernicious propaganda machine of the Guild of Evil.
The intensity of these efforts has resulted in a good deal of pushback, which, rather than leading to a pause for reflection (“Have we maybe gone too far?”) has instead led the belief that they were right all along (“My God! The rot is even worse than we’d imagined!”).
I’ve necessarily had to generalise and gloss, but not by all that much, and what I’ve just said is a fairly common point of view in education circles in the UK. Probably close to the majority view, I’d say.
She was getting quite girly and giggly and flirtatious by the time they were discussing getting the drag queen in for the younger kids. Alcoholic/ideological/sexual exuberance.
From the Wikipedia rabbit hole: alumni include John McEnroe and Larry Hagman (who is the son of musical star Mary Martin).
A school named after a central doctrine of Christianity. Original building on Wall Street. Historical connection with Columbia University. Can’t get much more WASP than that. In theory.
https://www.trinityschoolnyc.org/about/diversity-equity-and-inclusion
I’m sure it’s in the charter of the school: Whereby in this Year of our Lord 1709, we Episcopalians found this institution of learning with the ecumenical aspiration that people of all faiths and traditions will turn up, displace our descendants in numbers and influence, and slander and demean our race, religion, and achievements.
they proceed straight to the conclusion that it is their duty and responsibility to proselytise their own views, which of course are correct, for the benefit of their pupils, society, the environment, and the world.
For those inclined to habitual self-flattery, regarding yourself as a “change agent,” a champion of “social justice,” or some other noxious bollocks, is much more gratifying than merely being someone who imparts information about geography or arithmetic, which is far too low-status for these superior beings. And much less titillating.
…some other noxious bollocks…
Speaking of which…
…and if you do, prepare for your denouncement.
Conspiracy: that is always the Left response to conservatives but no conspiracy is needed if many people feel the same way. For example, all through the FBI there were people who felt it necessary and acceptable to try to destroy Trump. They, as a group, no longer held to the view that the FBI should stay out of politics. They never needed to have a meeting. The funny thing is that the same leftists believe in systemic racism and patriarchy, which in the very same way do not need a big meeting to get organized, but fail to see it operating in their own domain. That is how culture works.
Teachers used to view politics as off-limits except to inculcate a modicum of patriotism. Now, as noted above, they want to be a super hero and save the world. They simply can’t imagine that others have valid but different points of view. For example, those opposed to abortion view it as murder–can you prove it is not? If it is murder, then this is a crisis much larger than “choice”. They assume that systemic racism is real and the worst crisis ever, in spite of evidence that much of the problem is due to gangster culture and drugs, not racism. They will not even look at that evidence.
“White boys…very entitled to express their opposite opinions”
Mellow out or you will pay.
Unfortunately, it’s the white boys who very entitled to express their opposite opinions and push back.
Damn white boys.
We can bring our whole selves to work and do the important work now
Marxist alert! Marxist alert! Marxist alert!
…because it’s all about doing the work, the important work.
Mellow out or you will pay.
California Uber Alles.
When I first heard that song in 1980, I thought it was absurdly over-the-top. Not any more.
Unfortunately, it’s the white boys who very entitled to express their opposite opinions and push back.
Irony meter pegged as hyper-opinioned Marxist condemns others for having opinions.
Marxist alert! Marxist alert! Marxist alert!
Sooner or later, everyone comes around to the problem of tolerating the intolerant: Marxists in schools are like scorpions in nurseries.
The schools most major concern, after she was put on gardening leave?
https://nypost.com/2022/09/02/trinity-school-staffer-on-leave-following-project-veritas-sting/
As opposed to, say, being deeply disturbed by her comments to someone she thought a receptive ally?
Lie to my face.
Lie to my face.
“This fragile delusion is the only thing keeping my suicidal impulses at bay, you must cooperate or you are complicit in my self-destruction.”
I’m not a religious man myself but I can’t help but think finding Jesus might be a better solution to their deep-rooted PTSD. It certainly can’t be worse.
finding Jesus might be a better solution to their deep-rooted PTSD
As has often been said, leftist cults have replaced religion for a lot of people.
… leftist cults have replaced religion for a lot of people.
Marx told us that religion is the opiate of the masses. Let me propose a new hashtag: #marxistirony
I’m not a religious man myself but I can’t help but think finding Jesus might be a better solution…
And then of course the indulgent replies. “I wouldn’t have known,” “I have always seen a woman,” “You are yourself without pretence,” etc.
And – equally of course – the number of pronoun-stipulators who boast of reporting Mr Sharman and trying to get him banned for noting the pretence. Which, apparently, we mustn’t do.
We must not notice the reality right in front of us.
“Lie to my face”: One thing I see is crazy eyes. I hope the poor soul recovers his/her/their/whatever sanity.
I didn’t know Dexter. Had to look it up. ?. Holy shit. When are we going to revive asylums? The dangerous mentally ill may be a minority of the mentally ill, but they’re still dangerous.
Not entirely unrelated:
One of those items you might have assumed is satire, but apparently isn’t.
“you must cooperate or you are complicit in my self-destruction.”
We must always be held to ransom by the mentally ill. It’s the progressive way.
One of those items you might have assumed is satire, but apparently isn’t.
Er, what? Being told I have to pee sitting down doesn’t make me feel independent.
One thing I see is crazy eyes
It’s the open-slightly-too-wide thing. That’s a fight-or-flight response, opening the eyes wider means more light reaching the eye, increased focus and wider peripheral vision, all beneficial things if you’re about to be in a physically dangerous situation. Fight-or-flight reactions are responses to stimuli indicating danger, and these people are always in a state of hyperarousal. It’s the very nature of their disorder.
Being told I have to pee sitting down doesn’t make me feel independent.
BUT ARE YOU USING THE TOILET IN AN INTERSECTIONAL MANNER?
Sitting down to pee helps you empathize with and support new members of your gender community.
Such things being foremost in your mind while emptying your bladder, obviously.
Again, practised neuroticism.
I see the vegans have been boosting their public standing again.
regarding yourself as a “change agent,” a champion of “social justice,” or some other noxious bollocks, is much more gratifying
As she says during the recording: “I felt like a double agent or something.”
Speaking of activities that are “much more gratifying” for those who do them, the author of ‘Encourage men to pee sitting down …’ adds this at the end of the listicle:
I normally cover transportation and prepping, and it’s as boring as it sounds.
I see the vegans have been boosting their public standing again.
To say that I utterly loathe and despise everyone involved in Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, now Animal Rebellion, and everything they feel fully entitled to do is to understate the case by quite some margin.
Wide eyes don’t mean dick. Dilated pupils are the thing to watch.
As she says during the recording: “I felt like a double agent or something.”
Again, titillating.
One of those items you might have assumed is satire, but apparently isn’t.
Once again it is all too plausible but from the same author, I think it is a piss take.
I think it is a piss take.
Ah, that’s… reassuring, I guess.
One of those items you might have assumed is satire, but apparently isn’t.
Once again it is all too plausible but from the same author, I think it is a piss take.
Both items really do seem to be too absurd to be real. Furthermore, a google search does not find anything more by or about this “Jamey Braunstein”. On the other hand, you never know: There are some seriously insane people out there.
Question asked.
Also, why are people who invoke gender dysphoria at any acknowledgement of their physical reality, simultaneously relishing that same physical reality and using it as a taunt?
Also, pre-emptively insulting large parts of your audience is still the new hotness, apparently.
I’m not a Tolkien enthusiast, so I can’t comment on the particulars of the adaptation, which, as entertainment, doesn’t interest me. But it is curious just how readily much of the media seems bent on conflating criticism of a cultural product with sexism and racial bigotry. Which provides a handy, ready-made excuse for the makers of a yet another series that has failed to impress a large part of its intended audience.
so I can’t comment on the particulars of the adaptation,
It’s not good.
I’m not a Tolkien enthusiast…
[ Stares in astonishment ]
Are you really English? Are we all victims of a bizarre hoax?
It’s not good.
As I said, I’m not in a position to comment on its faithfulness or whatever, but the promotional clips I saw didn’t look impressive or strike me as well-written. And given the expense of the thing – $400 million or so? – it looked remarkably cheap.
…But it is curious just how readily much of the media seems bent on conflating criticism of a cultural product with sexism and racial bigotry.
Very important to handle such accusations in effective ways: Don’t bother denying the charge, which is futile and plays into their hands. Instead, instantly go on the attack. And show no mercy.
And show no mercy.
Maybe people who wish to distance themselves from accusations of sexism and racism are supposed to pretend to like the thing, and to tell their friends how much they’re enjoying it, even if it’s not very good. Though what bothered me was the fact that the author of the article, Adrian Hennigan, a professional journalist and supposed cultural sophisticate, doesn’t know the meaning of the term begs the question.
Sitting allows you to pet your dog while peeing.
So I have to get a bloody dog as well! And what happens if the hound decides to join the pee-fest?
Er, what?
Obedience is uniqueness.
See also:
Chaos is justice.
Infertility is life.
Sitting down to pee helps you empathize with and support new members of your gender community…
Ages ago, I ran across a comment/posting which said that the truly prepared man sat down to pee so that he would be facing an attacker and his gun would be handy. I don’t think it was satire.
[ Stares in astonishment ]
I don’t object to the stories, themes, etc. It’s just that the particulars and general setting are not my bag.
Sitting to pee: it is forcing you to bend the knee, literally. It is not conducive to male bladder emptying–that is not how the plumbing works. And how does your bathroom behavior make trans feel more included? Do you tell all your trans friends? Post it on instagram?
In the LOTR link comments, there’s a pic of the black elf shooting an arrow, holding the bow sort of sideways. The only way to see what you are doing is to sight down the arrow. So the director here has never shot an arrow and it shows.
In the effort to get a black character into Star Wars, they had one of the clone soldiers defect. But they are clones, which means all the soldiers in white gear working for the emperor are actually black (and can’t shoot, and follow orders to do genocide)–nice work fellas.
…there’s a pic of the black elf shooting an arrow, holding the bow sort of sideways.
That is the true origin of what is known as “gangsta style.
…one of the clone soldiers…
I’m not a Trekkie, but weren’t the clone soldiers supposed to be clones of that red shirt who fell into the mouth of shai hulud?
So, muddled thru some Bored of the Amazon …
My .02 is that the “controversy” is solely to gin up viewers (hey, got me to watch a bit).
The real issue is that it’s crap. 80s sword and sorcery bad, just with more expensive special effects. As far as the tale, tho – it has no more to do with any Tolkien material than say, “Beastmaster”
(Which is better, btw)
I’m not a Trekkie, but weren’t the clone soldiers supposed to be clones of that red shirt who fell into the mouth of shai hulud?
Me neither, but I always thought Lando Calreesian was himself a stretch. An attempt to shoehorn a black guy into LOTR. Anyone know why he went blind in the first place? After all, LaVar Ball isn’t blind in real life is he?
An aside, has Insty’s language censor become more sensetive lately? I cannot imagine what I said that caused me to slip into the “approved” folder. Unless it was the word “tranny” or “sonsabiches”…misspelled just that way…
Heh. I give it a 98, it has a good beat and you can dance to it.*
*classic reference
Though maybe Insty word checked me for referencing “Glenn”, which in the context I was obviously referring to Glenn Greenwald.
BTW, in the above I reference LOTR. I meant to say GoT. Obviously.
But it is curious just how readily much of the media seems bent on conflating criticism of a cultural product with sexism and racial bigotry.
Note that it only goes in one direction. Any actor of pallor who dares intrude on myths, legends or even just contemporary stories from non-pallor people is to be subjected to all manner of charges of cultural appropriation, racism, etc. (e.g. Ghost in the Shell movie). Yet from Hamilton to RoP, cultural appropriation is now mandated.
Cuz “white people have no culture”.
In the case of Tolkien, he drew on all manner of ancient Northern European mythologies in crafting Middle Earth. So the woke complaints that BIPOC people just gotta have black elves and drawves “CUZ we need to see ourselves!” are as ridiculous as the complaints over the film Dunkirk because it was too white and male.
While I haven’t watched an episode of the Rings of Power, the trailer did not inspire me to invest any time. We’ve got a Mary Sue Galadriel and (as noted above) some semi-gangsta elf of enriched melanin.
Meh. We went and saw Top Gun Maverick at the theater again yesterday so I’m happy. Amazon should take a clue on why that movie works so well.
@Darleen
https://twitter.com/TheCriticalDri2/status/1566704584231452674
Cuz “white people have no culture”
Because the Romans stole everything from the Greeks. At one time smart people knew this. Smart people. Like really smart who went to Harvard and Yale and shit. We unwashed know this because in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Richard Dreyfus’ character says this. And he always plays someone who is smart and went to Ivy Leaguer colleges and stuff. It’s essentially how we know anything. See?
@Joan
WHOA!
Saw a trailer for MI at the theater, the ONLY interesting one (for me) among a plethora of comic book movies. Sheesh.
WHOA!
Heh. Showbiz.
And yes, the new Mission: Impossible film is one of the few that look like warranting a trip to the local IMAX. The last three in the series were great fun.
I don’t object to the stories, themes, etc. It’s just that the particulars and general setting are not my bag.
I must warn you, sir, that you are in contravention of the Everyone Must Conform To Their Ethnic Stereotypes Act of Five Minutes Ago. But you have admitted to enjoying tea and traditional British spelling of words, so we’ll let you off with a warning this time.
Narnia > LotR. Doesn’t make for better movies, however.
Narnia > LotR
Well, if you like smug religious condescension, I guess. Lewis never quite gets over the habit of talking down to his readers.
holding the bow sort of sideways. The only way to see what you are doing is to sight down the arrow
Shortbows, horse bows, recurve bows, even mid-sized bows like the one Arondir shoots can be, and often were, snap fired with a front-body draw. At short ranges you can get entirely acceptable accuracy this way. About the only kind of bows you can’t do this with are the 6′ Welsh and Indian longbows because it’s physically impossible.
The problem with trying to analogize from modern sport combatives to historical use is that the environment, the equipment and the stakes are completely different. It’s like saying that disarmed samurai on the battlefields of Sengoku Japan fought by putting their opponents in a rear naked half-choke.
That’s not to say that every single fantasy and pre-modern film ever made isn’t a hilarious dumpster fire of silly and inaccurate military depictions. They are, because the average moviegoer doesn’t care and historical accuracy is incredibly boring.
Note that it only goes in one direction. Any actor of pallor who dares intrude on myths, legends or even just contemporary stories from non-pallor people is to be subjected to all manner of charges of cultural appropriation, racism, etc.
Americans encouraged immigrants to identify with Washington and Jefferson with whom they had zero ancestral relationship, the French encouraged immigrants to feel that “nos ancêtres les Gaulois” were their (adoptive) ancestors too, and that was a gesture of generosity, with the expectation that the immigrants would reciprocate by assimilating.
Multikulti has a morally inverted expectation that the host culture belongs to everybody and the outsider cultures belong to the outsiders themselves, at their own discretion – they can be insiders as they see fit and outsiders, advocating against the bigoted insiders, as they see fit, and the insiders are bigots for thinking that they have any moral authority on that subject.
The doctrine that all cultures are equal runs into the contraction that the culture your ancestors created is so impossible to live in that you yourself have gone to a lot of trouble to avoid living in it. The only way of preserving the contraction is that the materially superior culture is morally inferior. and the more materially superior it is, the more people vote with their feet to get there, the more morally inferior it must logically be, and the less morally entitled it is to have a say in who belongs to it.
With Lord of the Rings we have an explicit case that cultural appropriation is right and proper when we do it, that it’s right when we misrepresent the target culture for our for the benefit of our people. When the insiders notice us saying that, that makes them bad people.
Well, if you like smug religious condescension, I guess. Lewis never quite gets over the habit of talking down to his readers.
Really? I’m not a huge Lewis fan and what little I know of Tolkien’s personality, I like him slightly better. Just not the whole LotR thing. I read The Hobbit In high school, really enjoyed it but was not aware or didn’t immediately follow up with the LotR series. Once I did pick up on it, it seemed a bit overwrought. Narnia was just light, childhood fantasy with a Christian message. LotR just seemed like, I don’t know…grow up already? Then the movie ending with the guy with a telephone pole through his chest who simply Would. Not. Die. so that I could go home did me in. And like Star Wars, way too many different types of characters to bother with. Though SW has an excuse in that it involves a whole galaxy or whatever. I’ve read Lewis’s other more adult works and didn’t feel being talked down to but then again, I don’t recall reading anything by Tolkien except TH. And the couple movies I watched.
Now if you want some condescension, there ain’t no condescension like Heinlein condescension ’cause Heinlein condescension don’t stop.
…Heinlein condescension don’t stop.
The bit about Celle qui fut la belle heaulmière was good.
Heh.
@ccscientist: At the risk of being overly geeky, the Clones were phased out soon after the end of the Clone War. Stormtroopers weren’t clones by the time of A New Hope.
the trailer did not inspire me to invest any time.
I just now spotted these two items – this one and this one – and thought I’d leave them here for no reason whatsoever.
By the way, Madeleine Carlisle, who conducted this interview-cum-tongue-bath, has, so far as I can see, still not responded to the people pointing out her, shall we say, curious omissions. It must be quite strange, to write something wildly misleading, and to then, quite quickly, have your attention directed to numerous errors and distortions, and to then act as if none of that occurred. To carry on regardless.
Scenes.
I’ve read Lewis’s other more adult works and didn’t feel being talked down to
Most people are only familiar with The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, where there’s the least of it; it’s much more obvious in The Last Battle and The Magician’s Nephew. And he just drops the mask entirely in The Screwtape Letters. Taken in their totality, it’s hard not to see a pattern of shallow self-righteousness. By comparison, Tolkien’s humility before God – he refused to call Middle-Earth “his creation”, preferring the term “Sub-Creation” as being necessarily inferior to God’s work – is more compelling for it.
Once I did pick up on it, it seemed a bit overwrought
I have called The Lord of the Rings a great work of literature, but a lousy book. It was written as a novel series because the concept of a massive coffee table book describing a completely fictional realm was not a thing in 1949. I think Dune is a much better written book, but as a very specific allegory it doesn’t have the same universal appeal.
I just now spotted these two items – this one and this one
I get what Marvel is doing: they’re trying to cater to all the wine moms who only watch Marvel movies because their kids do, by creating some kind of weird superhero mashup of Ally McBeal and Sex and the City. But She-Hulk isn’t a kid-friendly show, and the wine moms aren’t going watch it of their own volition. The whole thing feels like a dragged out, unfunny SNL sketch with no pipeline.
Fun easter egg, though: the name of the law firm is the real last names of the original Marvel Bullpen.
It’s not good.
Yes, it’s a quite spectacular demonstration of ‘all that glitters is not gold’.
Everything seen from afar, the panoramic shots of the land- and cityscapes, the fiery red meteorite streaking through the heavens, are spectacular.
But then as you get closer, the sets look cheap and even ridiculous, as in the ice cave or the “Harfoot” village.
And then when finally you get to what I suppose they think will pass for plot, dialogue and action scenes … Oh, my word! It’s the most total and utter drivel.
It’s also extremely questionable for a show that apparently prides itself on being open and inclusive in terms of story and casting that all Elves enunciate in Eton English, all the Dwarves growl and harrumph in Glaswegian, and all the “Harfoots”, basically midgets that live in bogland and eat snails, have southern Irish accents.
I mean …
But anyway my real question is – How does this relate to Amazon’s Wheel of Time?
It seems to have been completely forgotten by everyone (including Amazon), that they’ve already produced one epic high fantasy story only a year or so ago which had all the same flaws (e.g. atrocious dialogue, very poor and/or preposterously bad laugh-out-lad action scenes, invincible Mary Sues in every direction, etc.).
How witless or arrogant do you have to be make a second show without apparently learning a single thing from the problems in the first one?
thought I’d leave them here for no reason whatsoever
Incredible as it may seem, I’d actually completely forgotten Penny even existed.
(Then again I always did maintain that her main selling point, which she milked for all it was worth, and it turned out to be worth quite a bit, was that she was young. At 35, she can’t really claim to be the voice of doomed youth any more).
I’d actually completely forgotten Penny even existed.
You take that back. You take that back right now.
It must be quite strange, to write something wildly misleading, and to then, quite quickly, have your attention directed to numerous errors and distortions, and to then act as if none of that occurred.
That describes much of leftist “scholarship”.
At 35, she can’t really claim to be the voice of doomed youth any more
How can she be the voice of Doomed Youth if she is the whelp of two wealthy lawyers and has a net worth in the millions? Was her PTSD caused by horror of being born into wealthy, going to nice schools, and being forced to read her monthly bank statements?
cum-tongue-bath
Eww.
That describes much of leftist “scholarship”.
See also this other, recent example. There are, needless to say, many more in the archives.
Then again I always did maintain that her main selling point, which she milked for all it was worth, and it turned out to be worth quite a bit, was that she was young. At 35, she can’t really claim to be the voice of doomed youth any more).
She’ll be a leader of the Tory party one day. Mark my words.
Timely example of Poe’s Law?
To Daniel Ream: On Narnia.
I’ll vent a little, too.
C.S. Lewis was often presumptuous and insufferable, in tone. It sometimes comes through in the Narnia books. and frequently in his “Science Fiction Trilogy”. Mere Christianity is smarmy. The Screwtape Letters are just as you characterize them. Add all all that to his twee tendencies, and it can be rough going sometimes. Despite his talent and imagination.
Ironically, Philip Pullman’s own anti-Narnia trilogy has all the same flaws in its authorial voice. I read his book on the writing art, too. It’s even worse, there.
I love Tolkien. Tolkien wrote for himself, and there was never any Sunday school condescension in him while he embodied his heroic themes, both Christian and primordial.
It seems to have been completely forgotten by everyone
When you start with a turd, no amount of polishing is going to save it. WoT is Yet Another of those author-writing-up-his-college-D&D-campaign series. They’re popular, sure, but so is LitRPG.
Also, what Hippogryph said.
If The Rings of Power is already a joke, why not have an episode in which a statue is built honoring the Hobbit who discovered the Second Breakfast?
I’d be fine with the black hobbits if Lenny Henry reprised his role from Chef!.