After the end of the Late Show - Stephen Colbert will write the new LOTR movie Shadow of the Past, a new Peter Jackson-produced film based on unadapted chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring. (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] huf@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

ah, but does he know about trotter and ingold?

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Meh he doesn't even know about Glupael Shittus

[-] huf@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

all i'm saying is, there are plenty of actual tolkien scholars so why not listen to them instead of this fuckwit celebrity famous for pretending to be even more right wing than he is?

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

If someone who actually succesfully wrote fantasy before tried this it would still be graverobbing. This is gonna be pathetic.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

ohhh. yeah. maybe they did ask some tolkien scholars and they said "please let me die already"

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