Tag: lord of the rings

It’s Time to Dethrone Tolkien as the King of Fantasy

Content Warning: This post does mention some racially loaded language that J.R.R. Tolkien used to describe the orcs in his works. I don’t like that language, but we do need to acknowledge his flaws.

Hey, everybody! It’s been a minute! We are now in the wonderful season of Hobbit Girl Autumn, and that means I’ve started a Lord of the Rings rewatch. Yes, I’ve been watching the extended editions, although particularly when I watch the extended Fellowship of the Ring, I realize I have the theatrical version’s story beats memorized. I read the books years ago, but I much prefer the Peter Jackson films.

There, I said it. After nearly 20 years of pretending I understood and preferred the books, I can finally admit it.

Now I have to just sit and wait.

Wait for what, you ask? Oh, I’m waiting for the diehard book fans to show up and talk about how I’m a stupid, ignorant person who can’t finish Go, Dog, Go. That I’m nothing but a dum-dum stupid-head who will never, ever understand true art or the meaning of Tolkien’s works, and that I’m probably one of those awful, hideous, moronic people who have been enjoying Rings of Power.

And that just isn’t true. I’ve read and finished Go, Dog, Go many times.

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Characters Who Are Similar to Donald Trump

SPOILERS for ALL fictional works mentioned below.

Okay, folks. We are one month away from the election that could save or damn the United States’ soul. We just had the presidential debates. I did not watch them, though I saw some clips from it on social media. Instead, I read Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D. She’s Donald Trump’s niece, and she’s a psychologist who specializes in trauma, so she has a lot of fascinating insights about her awful uncle and her family at large. (To sum up: Donald Trump and his siblings are very strange people who were raised by a sociopath and his emotionally needy wife. They don’t trust or even like each other.) Between reading this book and just paying any attention to Trump’s antics over the past four years, I realized he reminds me of several prominent fictional characters.

This is the only photo of Trump that will appear here because I don’t want anymore photos of him saved to my computer.

Before I begin, I want to point out that these character are similar to Trump, but they are not exactly like him. In fact, I plan to point out the differences between Trump and these characters as well as the similarities.

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