Mentions (11)
"Seriously the kind of people that spent years misquoting Tolkien's "*Evil cannot create anything new...*" when talking about the left, and then out of the blue they became AI art greatest defenders?? Make it make sense."
"It's also ironic that the most 'fantastical' genres tend to be the most conventional, never straying too far from the formulas of Tolkien or Lucas."
"Someone who's so obsessed with the cultures and languages of Medieval Europe and/or Christian theology (or, in Herbert's case, Arabia and Islam, great man theory, and the interplay between human civilization and ecology) that they not only devote their lives to studying it intensely, but also incide"
"This is the world of the Orcs that Tolkien predicted, when the better part of our nature is forgotten and everything is reduced to weights and measures."
"Just read the hobbit for the first time. I've tried reading LOTR many times but could never get into it. I love how simple and fun it was."
"It's so tolkienesque. *Safe travels, lightskin.*"
"Unless you are Tolkien if you spend the bulk of your hobby time building a magic system or making a map or creating a language or whatever and not writing and outlining characters and narrative (endless outlining is also a trap people fall for, I'm well aware) you are doing worldbuilding and not wri"
"I'm not here to complain about the 'corruption' of Tolkien or whatever (though Galadriel as written by Tolkien would never have done something so comically irrational). I'm just speechless that a show that cost a billion dollars can't come up with a better way to get its hero from point A to point B"
"Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might have found more suitable mates. But the 'real soul-mate' is the one you are actually married to." Very cat"
"JRR Tolkien once claimed "Cellar Door" is the most beautiful expression in the English language."
"Frodo indeed 'failed' as a hero, as conceived by simple minds: he did not endure to the end; he gave in, ratted. I do not say 'simple minds' with contempt: they often see with clarity the simple truth and the absolute ideal to which effort must be directed, even if it is unattainable."