The Hall of Fire

You forgot the part about Shelob now being a sexy lady. I think I mentioned this in one of my earlier posts. ^^ Also, according to one trailer for the second game, Helm Hammerhand is one of the Nine. That is all I know but if only Théoden had known, that he sought to defend Rohan from the keep of a...

My uneducated guess is that this point about the rights not covering some characters refers to Silmarillion characters. I assume that the Deadline reporter is not familiar with Tolkien's unpublished works or that her source did not clarify the origins of said characters. As of now, we really have no...

Judging from one of your previous posts, I assume this is Monterey Bay. From which side?

I already picture Grima owning a whorehouse in Edoras.

My secret hope is that it is really The Silmarillion that is being "shopped" by the Estate. But that is not very likely. One can only hope. Even leaving artistic considerations aside, this would definitely be the most marketable Middle-earth adaptation. Internet comments cannot be equated...

Second article with more details, from Deadline. http://deadline.com/2017/11/lord-of-the-rings-series-eyed-warner-bros-tv-amazon-1202201636/ According to the linked article, the Tolkien Estate approached HBO, Amazon, and Netflix for a LOTR series, asking for $200 – $250 million. HBO already dropped ...

Just checked TheOneRing.net and a similar German website, and it is news to them too. Variety lists the article as an exclusive, so it seems that they broke the story. After the last Hobbit film was released, there existed, in my opinion, basically three somewhat viable options for future Tolkien ad...

Great thread which allows me to write one of my over-long posts. If you have the time, enjoy reading it. As someone hailing from a mountainous country but living in the eastern flat portion of said land, I tend to associate my surroundings with the mountains of Middle-earth. Two summits in particula...

@ Inanna: By modern standards, most Northerners, Lincoln included, were white supremacists. It would be correct, however, to argue that the CSA fought for a more vile form of white supremacy. And while the Nazis were, of course, inherent white supremacists, they did not regard themselves primarily a...

Well, alrighty, then. He couldn't have known! It was something people just didn't talk about. Primula, you are arguing against a straw man here. Throughout my posts here, I never argued or implied that Lee did not know about slavery or that the Confederate Army did not fight for preserving said sys...

is Lee worse than Hitler?[/i] That would only be relevant if they were facing off in combat to the death. I do not consider evil to have a sliding scale. There has to be a line beyond which one has to say, "That's evil and I will stand up against it." I can accept that the line is not in ...

Beutlin, I don't think you have any conception of the horrors that were perpetrated against the people of Africa and of African descent by the system of slavery that the Confederacy was fighting to preserve. Speaking as someone whose family was all but exterminated by the Nazis in the Holocaust, I ...

Lee fought to defend a centuries-old economic system that kidnapped innocents from their homes and transported them across the ocean, a journey in which many died of neglect or contagion. The survivors were enslaved, and their children were born enslaved. Millions of human beings were commonly rape...

"Museums are for history. Statues are for those we honor. [...] There's a reason there's no statues of Hitler in Germany." @MelissaHarperD I find this equation of Lee et al. with Hitler utterly idiotic, historically illiterate and morally reprehensible. Irrespective of the CSA's strong ef...

Where Confederate monuments should be displayed or removed obviously depends on people's attitudes to the Confederacy. This should not be misconstrued as a defense of the CSA or the way people saw the Civil War in the reconstruction era,* but as an historian I tend to view the removal of historical...

Who won the engagement in the 1770's and who won the engagement in the 1860's? As yov noted, my post was rather off-topic, so maybe this discussion should be moved to a new thread. That said, both of your answers (Primula and River) touched upon the difference between successful and non-successful ...

To me, it all represents treason, plain and simple. A nation of traitors. To take the position of the devil's advocate here: In the 1770s, were not the United States of America a nation of traitors, founded on the principles of defying their king and homeland? What was the fundamental difference be...

Question for V: I recently visited my relatives in another part of the country and had a chat with my uncle-in-law who is a lawyer specializing in copyright law. I briefly asked him about the copyright length of posthumously published works (such as “The Silmarillion”) and he told me that in most co...

It's a film about a group of people who are seen as different, and the fear people have of them because they are different, and how that fear leads to persecution. Their difference is that they have laser eyes and stuff but that's not what the X-men stories are "about". I realize that the...

Forgot to post this in May. My brother and I greatly enjoyed the experience of watching the concert. Thank you all for your recommendations. We had not seen the film since 2012, so it was somewhat of a new experience for me - I find that this always happens when I re-watch the film(s) after a long t...