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@SwitchPlayed_YT @jondelarroz Yup! And classic literature would be too “problematic”

@DarkCloudKid @jondelarroz they made a wishbone video game? LMAO????!?!?!!!! I loved the show as a kid and it had an Odyssey episode too! They need to bring that back, but knowing them, they'd make wishbone a troon or something.

I've read The Odyssey in multiple translations. It is one of the greatest works of literature ever produced by a human being, a 2,800-year-old story about a man who wants to go home and can't, and it has never needed help being relatable. Nolan handed it to Emily Wilson, whose translation of Homer features "tote bag," "pep talk," and "canapés." He ADMITTED he used her work. The result on screen: Robert Pattinson telling Tom Holland he's "pining for a daddy you didn't even know." Wilson's argument is that Homer didn't sound archaic to the Greeks, so she modernized the language. That's completely backwards. Homer's Greek was the elevated formal register reserved for gods and heroes. "Daddy" is not the American equivalent of Homeric poetic diction. It's what a screenwriter writes when they don't trust the audience to handle anything older than last Tuesday. The Laestrygonians, Bronze Age cannibal giants, show up in medieval plate armor that wouldn't be invented for another 2,400 years. Lupita Nyong'o is rumored as Helen of Troy. This is what happens when Hollywood decides that a masterpiece needs to be fixed. Does this film have any chance of being good?

@mellon_heads “They took the little ones!” 😭😭😭 such remorse and sorrow

Sean Bean stated in an interview with Variety that his favourite death scene of his was in The Fellowship of the Ring. "Boromir's was probably the best death I've ever done. It was just so heroic and tragic"

I thought Sokka was too busy with the mighty nein to help Aang out 😂😂😂

Me too, Sam. Me too.

“Everything that keeps me together is falling apart, I got this thing I consider my only art of fucking people over” —— the modest mouse lyrics that were in my head when I woke up

@Strangeland_Elf I specifically started watching Lost for Dominic Monaghan.

I mean he IS the best Lost character

@SceneinCinema Thats some method acting

In 2022, Antony Starr received a 12-month suspended sentence for a drunken assault in Spain. The actor allegedly punched a chef twice and smashed a glass bottle into his face. Starr reportedly threatened: "You’ve committed the mistake of your life... I want to take your life." The victim required four stitches, and Starr paid roughly $5,000 in restitution to settle.

I started having focal seizures with my first child. I didnt know what they were. When I described it to my ob, he told me “weird things happen while women are pregnant”. No one did anything and now I get grand mal ones.

@Kryptomightguy But he was sexy though…

He murdered his GF and attempted to kill his cousin while starting a race war that would lead to the destruction of Wakanda and the world. He’s a fucking villain you moron. MCU fans have no clue what an actual good villain is so they glaze these vapid characters.

“We don’t belong here, Merry Millenial, this is too big for us. Just think: in 20 years we’ll be the ones collecting social security!” “There won’t be any social security in 20 years, Zoomer Pippin.”

@ithacarising @tolkienzone

I can imagine the Amazon producers, and especially the showrunners, get a lot of personal hate for Rings of Power, and that is deplorable. These gentlemen are not villains in the Sauronic sense. They harbour no secret desire to cover Middle-earth in darkness. Their crime is far more modern and insidious: professional incompetence masquerading as enlightened reinterpretation. They have taken Tolkien's Second Age, that vast, slow-maturing tapestry of hubris, fall, and the quiet corrosion of power, and compressed it into a television-friendly smoothie of accelerated timelines. They felt they had to invent mythologies because they know better - mithril as a plot device, really? They introduced characters who seem to have wandered in from a corporate diversity seminar rather than the appendices of The Lord of the Rings. Aesthetically, the betrayal is almost poignant in its earnestness. Tolkien's world was built on a deliberate archaic grandeur - languages that sang like half-remembered hymns, landscapes that carried the weight of geological memory, costumes and architecture that whispered of deep time. Here in RoP, everything looks expensively shiny yet curiously weightless, as if the elves had discovered IKEA and decided immortality was no excuse for bad taste. Philosophically, the damage runs deeper. Tolkien's vision was rooted in a stern moral realism: good is not invincible, evil often wears a plausible face, and power corrupts even (especially) those who seek it for noble ends. Payne and McKay, in their zeal to modernise, have softened these edges into something altogether more therapeutic. Now we have Galadriel reimagined as a rage-fuelled action heroine whose arc owes more to contemporary empowerment tropes than to the serene, tragic queen of lore. Sauron's manipulations are now hilariously recast with motivational-speaker ambiguity. Even heroism is stripped of its tragic cost and replaced with feel-good platitudes about unity across differences. For Tolkien true courage emerges not from innate greatness or martial glory, but from humble, steadfast loyalty, small acts of kindness, and moral fortitude in the face of overwhelming darkness. These were qualities embodied most perfectly by unassuming hobbits like Samwise Gamgee, whose quiet endurance and selfless devotion prove far more potent than the prowess of kings or warriors. Character arcs, once subtle evolutions shaped by millennia of choice and consequence, are now hurried through like items on a checklist. In doing so, it leaves figures looking silly in speaking in the clipped cadences of network drama rather than the measured gravity of myth. The result is not adaptation but fan fiction elevated to corporate epic: well-meaning, lavishly mounted, and profoundly un-Tolkien. One almost pities the showrunners, for one must believe they were genuinely sincere and earnest lovers of Tolkien. Perhaps they were men who felt the full, daunting weight of inheriting his legacy. And who approached the task with hearts full of reverence and every good intention shining in their eyes - only to find themselves, in the end, quietly undone by the very gravity of what they had undertaken. They were seduced not by any external Ring of Power, but by the far more insidious one they forged for themselves: the gleaming circlet of their own hubris. Their ring - forged in the fiery pit of modern Hollywood - promised that a modern vision, vast budgets, and enlightened revisions could improve upon the old master's work. Instead they found that it only bound them ever tighter to the very mediocrity they sought to transcend. I don't believe Payne and McKay set out to destroy Tolkien's legacy, but they merely polished it until the shine obscured the substance, leaving us with a billion-dollar bauble that glitters like gold but rings hollow as orcish tin. In the end, the true villains of this Middle-earth are not orcs or fallen Maiar, but the executives and auteurs. With every good-faith rewrite, they quietly assassinated the thing they professed to love - proving that the surest way to kill a myth is to love it badly, expensively, and on prime time.

@BadQualityMemes @Strangeland_Elf

Half of these words were made up 2 seconds ago. “Clavicular got MOGGED by another Looksmaxer”???

Toca y verás a la mejor serie de TV

@evenstvr “Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Do not be so eager to deal out death in judgement “

i watched lotr last night and forgot how beautiful the dialogue is. ‘don’t go where i can’t follow.’ … immediately tears thank you.

@TolkienWonder Same! And it was difficult to not quote the lines 😬😬

The most difficult part of watching it with my friend was restraining myself from telling him every little random detail of what I know about the movies and the books.