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[–] 28 points 6 months ago

You know you love an author and his world when you decide to 'finish' the work he said that he did not want to write because it would ruin the generally happy ending of his series

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  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago

    Honestly, good for him. Sounds like a dream come true and his is absolutely one of the biggest LOTR nerds on earth. And it keeps him away from politics.


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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago

    fakenews comm is thataway ------->

    Spider-Jerusalem

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (15 children)

    i hope he consults actual experts on the subject matter... what am i saying, he wont.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (13 children)
  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    eh, every time i've heard him show off his expertise, it turned out he knew less than me and i'm nowhere near an expert.

    he's definitely read the silmarillion (probably a few times at least) but that alone isnt much.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    He can list all the names of Aragorn, Elessar, called Elfstone! Call me when he's talking about the recurring themes of 'The Machine' which destroys all beauty and life for power and profit

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    ah, but does he know about trotter and ingold?

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    Meh he doesn't even know about Glupael Shittus

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    he's definitely read the silmarillion (probably a few times at least)

    He listened to the audiobook

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Ok, but Blind Guardian slaps though.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Shame about Hansi doing that collab with Jon "Jonuary 6th" "Anti-Semitic Banking Conspiracy 'Theorist'" Schaffer, but otherwise yeah they do.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Damn, I was hoping I wouldn't come back to a comment like this. I suppose it's a given in the metal community, lot of cool people, but a lot of shitheads too.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    It was a two-album side project that combined members of Blind Guardian and Iced Earth (called "Demons and Wizards"), and in Hansi's defense, it wasn't widely known that Schaffer was a megaCHUD at the time. I don't know of any other Hansi-adjacent controversy beyond that, but I haven't exactly gone looking either.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    Honestly fuck colbert and I expect it to be shit but also I fully expect it to still be better than what Frank Herbert's son did to Dune

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago*

    New LOTR movie? Singular? No way. They'll stretch out the Tom Bombadil stuff alone to at least 3 movies and a tv miniseries.

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  • [+] 2 points 6 months ago