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Loremaster of Annúminas
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It strikes me that Amazon's marketing department (and its paid shills like theonering.net) have adopted a very interesting strategy: insult the fanbase and call them names. Innovative, certainly.
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Even back in the heyday of the varied Tolkien forums, I considered TORN a trash site.
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Tar-Elenion Last edited by Tar Elenion; 05-18-2022 at 07:54 AM. |
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Back in the Jackson-movie years, I thought it gave too much of the game away that TORN's onsite paid ads were almost all from WETA Workshop and other PJ/New Line-connected enterprises.
But now the site has no advertising at all- which raises very interesting questions about where their funding is coming from (even beyond accepting an all-expense-paid junket to London and Oxford combined with an exclusive private preview and meet-and-greet: an offer of Rings of Power from the Lord of Gifts which I am afraid other, better people like Corey Olsen also stooped to accept)
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'It's like some bizarre fan fascination. Tolkien never says female dwarves have beards.'
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Did you catch his latest episode of Other Minds and Hands (#10) where he gets all excited about the "Harfoots" and how maybe they could be further east in Rhun and migrate west and become Gollum's people in the lands around the Anduin?
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Errrrr- Smeagol was a Stoor.
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