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The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit creator JRR Tolkien

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

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I Don't Understand This Guy's Score Report

I just have very high standards of racism. I don't want to bring it there. What are you holding a shambok? Yeah, like, is this culture the way I feel? That's one of my... too much shambok is. It's a baboon's tail so people are high. You can see why the white supremacists love Tolkien's Norse heroes and hate the recent diverse casting in Amazon's New Ring as a power. The Lord of the Rings isn't allegory. These aren't human races. They're different beings and they've come together to defeat evil. Have you ever written or performed anything that doesn't draw on real life? It's impossible.

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