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Jun 11 15 tweets 3 min read
Here's Hera, the new hero of this re-written story of Helm Hammerhand. Tolkien never gave her a name, and only wrote this about her: "[Freca] asked the hand of Helm’s daughter for his son Wulf." That's it. Nothing else.

I have thoughts... 1/15 Image First, though, let's review the story of Helm Hammerhand.
1. Helm is the King of the Mark in 2754.
2. At a council in Meduseld, the distrusted Dunlending Freca asks for his daughter's hand in marriage. 2/15
Oct 18, 2022 15 tweets 3 min read
1/ This might be a risky statement: The primary problem in #TheRingsofPower isn't that that they're changing Tolkien. It's that it's poorly written, poorly plotted, poorly paced, poorly directed, with poorly constructed characters... The entire project is an amateur exercise. 2/ The poor writing began early in episode 1. We learned that rocks look down and ships look up--and this was supposed to be some sort of wonderful guiding statement about how to live--but it's so clunky and unimaginative. And the entire show suffers from this.
Aug 23, 2022 9 tweets 2 min read
1/ This #TheRingsofPower trailer concentrates on. 1: Rewritten Galadriel. 2: Rewritten Tar-Miriel. 3: New Character Arondir. 4: New Character Halbrand. 5: New Character Disa. 6: New Harfoots. 7: Galadriel in Númenor. 8: Elrond lecturing Galadriel. 9: The Meteor Man. 2/ When people wonder why there is such a fan backlash against this show, THIS is why. There is nearly NOTHING in this trailer that a lifelong, hardcore, Tolkien reader like me can point to and say, "Hey, that's from the books!"
Feb 10, 2022 14 tweets 3 min read
1) Read the Vanity Fair article and there’s a lot of red flags. My first thoughts follow… vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022… 2) Amazon — “But really, does it feel like Middle-earth if you don’t have hobbits or something like hobbits in it?” 🤨