J.R.R. Tolkien

Dark Lords don’t do campaign speeches. Nonetheless, season two of Amazon’s Tolkien adaptation, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” opened with Sauron trying to persuade a small band of surviving orcs into accepting him as the new…

Year 3018 of the Third Age What are the defenders of Gondor actually defending? My heart swells with pride when I see the banner of the White Tree — I even volunteered to do military law at Osgiliath — but I cannot look at the Stewardship…

The thing about The Return of the King is that the king, well, returns. Despite his professed love for J.R.R. Tolkien’s work, David French seems to have missed this aspect of Tolkien’s conclusion to The Lord of the Rings. Writing for…

Disney’s upcoming live-action adaption of the 1937 film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” made by “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig and featuring a non-white Snow White and racially diverse, multi-gendered, size-inclusive dwarfs, is about to…

Bud Light enlists a trans ladyface minstrel to sell beer. Target hires a trans Satanist to design LGBT clothes for kids and starts selling “binding” and “tucking” swimwear. North Face launches a marketing campaign featuring a…

“I’ve seen a lot of reactions that have immediately suggested, ‘Oh, this is really sloppy,’” said Corey Olsen, a medieval studies scholar who goes by the moniker “Tolkien Professor” online, in a live Q&A interview. “ I’m feeling a…