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05-18-2022, 10:42 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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05-18-2022, 10:54 AM
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05-18-2022, 11:26 AM
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05-20-2022, 06:34 PM
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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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05-21-2022, 06:46 PM
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Errrrr- Smeagol was a Stoor.
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05-22-2022, 05:37 AM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
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What I thought immediately upon hearing that...
Unfortunately he has comments turned off on his videos. I had been making time to respond* in some of his 'live chats' but missed this one. * In #6 he doubled down on his beards claim, with a 'Tolkien stated dwarf women don't have beards' and I was able to (repeatedly) demand the quote, while his 'students' were jumping in defending him, trying to change the subject and the usual bullwub. Olsen himself did not respond, but in #8 he seems to have tentatively walked back his absolute assertions by, sort of, acknowledging it to be his opinion. I will be interested to see, if it comes up again, whether he continue with that or goes back to the 'Tolkien said'...
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05-22-2022, 01:43 PM
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Turning off comments is always a pregnant indication.
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