There are always so many facets to discussions of him and race, but I think his exploration of the concept of the Other and particularly his conclusions that Samwise drew as he looked upon the fallen Southron show where his heart lie—the scene makes me reconsider everything else in the text!

In everything I have read, we don’t have conclusive evidence that any specific language influenced its creation, however there are theories ranging from it being derived from multiple languages to it being reminiscent of an ancient Mesopotamian language Tolkien may have been aware of.

They were either gonna be apologists or just own him as a hard-to-sympathize-with character and I am glad they left it there.

I really liked this (except like one little part) and I am a certified hater! It’s really enjoyable on multiple levels.

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture”

The only time it’s economically feasible to buy Tide

Everyone wants someone else to foot the bill. It’s really simple, you don’t even have to care about innocent Ukrainian civilians (or Russian ones for that matter): if you want the most dangerous powerful country to keep destroying its own military, you have to keep helping the country it’s invading.

Elves do it cleanest.

Oh man my sinuses feel that

Now that is interesting! Imagine the big army poised to fight off Easterlings rushing down to the Falas instead to help Dol Amroth fend off the Corsairs!