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The Queen, The Shire, And Amazon’s Absurd Attempt To Commodify Tolkien

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Tolkien's Second Age

Amazon is spending a truly incredible amount of money adapting Tolkien and resources adapting Tolkien. I think that there is an iconic, clasm, ascended in our culture right now that permeates everything that and especially everything that's undertaken by our elites. And so the idea that Jeff Bezos and the showrunners of rings of power would look at something like Tolkien's second age and think, you know, this is an opportunity for us to kind of like insert our values and insert our progressive 21st century messages doesn't surprise me. Do you know?

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