🧙‍♂️📜 On Orcs and other curiosities: A mini-thread essay to help viewers of The Rings of Power understand the sources used from J.R.R. Tolkien. 2/🧵 This thread will cover quotes and lore from J.R.R. Tolkien to help assist people in understanding the sources used by Amazon’s The Rings of Power Season 2 and hopefully inform, educate and resolve any confusions.

Tom Bombadil by Larry MacDougall!
Reminds me a little of a Morris Dancer and something out of the Wild Hunt/Green Man folklore. You can see more of his LOTR material on his Tumblr account (note there is NSFW fairy material on there!)
tumblr.com/larrymacdougal…

The Embracer CEO, Lars Wingefors, being vague about the future Tolkien IP via Middle-earth Enterprises. 1/
variety.com/2022/film/glob… From the article - "Wingefors noted during his presentation that Embracer now has four licensed “Lord of the Rings” games in production with external developers."
Those could be: 2/

Some screenshots of Tharbad as envisioned in the new update (#34) "Before the Shadow" for #LOTRO.

Let's talk about Elon. This is the world's richest man, who claims to be in touch with people like you and I. He's mates with right wing nutjobs like The Trump. He retweets rw nutjob conspiracy theories. 1/

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880

He's creepy-breaks employer/employee etiquette by having a child with someone he promotes in his workplace whilst his partner is due their own child. He swaggers into his new work with a sink, knowing full well he's going to crap on a lot of workers there soon. 2/

It's become clear, over the last few days, that there is confusion regarding the various entities involved with Tolkien. So I'm post this thread to clarify some details. I'll go chronologically as much as I can. 1/16 The first entity is the Tolkien Estate. This is Tolkien's family. Christopher was head of the Estate, he stepped down from that position just before we sadly lost him. They own the book rights and anything else, except those stated below. Website: tolkienestate.com/en/home.html 2/16

Dear Tolkien community (@TolkienSociety, @theoneringnet), if you are to hold a debate about anything, please make sure you actually understand and have knowledge of your subject before you live broadcast. 1/2
Exhibit (a): @TolkienSociety @theoneringnet Otherwise you end up embarrassing yourselves like these fine upstanding Christian "men" and alleged "Great Wizards" who quite frankly have the debating skills of a fly that just embraced the windscreen of the car crash they were part of last night. 2/2