When Tolkien adaptations *still* continue to put down POC or falls short of full representation, the MTG set goes hard for their decision to make major heroes POC with no apologies given 😎

That Kiff is an incredible, perhaps nigh perfect, television show is a given, of course. What is unacceptable is that NOT ONE member of my family, knowing of its existence, bothered to tell me about Lore of the Ringlight, their beautiful parody of Lord of the Rings. www.imdb.com/title/tt3190...

The Mods at SCOTUSBlog pull no punches.

This is going to be every legacy media take once Trump loses on birthright citizenship especially. He was never going to win on this one, and it’s cover for all these ideologically aligned cases.

Garffeld

“Ancalagon the Black” (watercolour, 2026) The finished watercolour painting of Ancalagon the dragon battling a flock of seabirds and Eärendil aboard Vingilot in the sky for the 2027 Beyond Bree Tolkien Calendar. It will be accompanied by an ink drawing I’m going to post tomorrow.

rād-wērig, adj: weary with riding or journeying. (RAWD-WAY-rih / ˈraːd-ˌweː-rɪj) Image: Arthurian romances; France, 1290-1300; Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Beinecke MS 229, f. 233r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Announcing our first confirmed artists for the Tolkien & Middle-earth Online Artist Exhibition! Registration is open now for artists, attendees, and anyone who loves Tolkien-inspired art (link in bio!); more artists announcements are still to come!

My painting ASHEN GLOW.

Platner’s sexting scandal has been a bat-signal for misogyny among certain “progressive” men. Ken Kippenstein called his critics and other mainstream Democrats “smoothgroins.” Kyle Kulinski said Platner could sext his mother. I wrote about it all here: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-men-defe...

I think some Christians hate Pride because Pride is all about loving people and affirming that they were born perfect, just the way they are, the first time round. Meanwhile, some preachers claim that people were born sinful, evil, and must be born again. So.. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Pride!🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

I think we probably all just need to assume this is happening with every company and every possible product now, probably starting with least reputable to most, but we’ll get to most, eventually.

larry ellison funded a manhattan project to nuke the media environment so bari weiss could run an operation paperclip to launder the reputations of all jeffrey epstein's friends.

The true nightmare will be automated drone swarms of hundreds or even thousands of automated drones that attack targets on sight. No human involved and inevitable death from above. Humans can't stop innovating when it comes to killing other people. It's depraved.

Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck's joint project, which took more than 20 years to finalize, sees them collaborate with other folk musicians and singers. n.pr/4fWKanh

Open access article! Mary Ann Lund’s article ‘The Pickled Parson of Sedgefield’ is available on our website. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

LOLZ! Guilty as charged!

It’s my birthday today, so, in true hobbit fashion, here’s my present to my readers: a new piece on “hobbit talk”, dialects, non-standard English, and “rustic” vs. “gentlehobbits”! dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/the-slow-l... Cover art by the amazing @miriamellis.bsky.social

Speaking of The Professor... Here's the "Fellowship of the Ring" by Grzegorz Rosinski

Gandalf Problem Solving A Flowchart LOLZ!! 😂 (Can't recall where from...online?!?)

Celtic Brithonic figure wearing a cloak known as Bittus Brittanicus 4th century AD found in Chelmsford England #celtic #archaeology #BritishHistory #druidsky /|\ #pagansky

Do you agree with the 96%? Religious or not, the fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the U.S. needs your support. Happy #PrideMonth from FFRF. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

A month in the wild! Yet somehow a certain festering ghoul still shambles along. Never been more anxious to see one of my songs go out of date. Also on all your streaming svcs, and the game's in the Play store (Apple coming soonish).

My painting DUSKWIND TRAIL.

Happy Pride Month Tolkien community! 🏳️‍🌈 May this month be filled with lots of love & support for everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community 💖 Pride Month is never late, it arrives precisely when it means to, as our beloved wizard & advocate for the community, Sir Ian McKellen would say ✨️ #PrideMonth #Pride

Who do I know that (knows someone that) does linked open data work on Vatican (especially Papal) material?

🎤𖥠 ANTE UP, FOOLS! 🎤𖥠 In the spirit of Friday's footnote on Boston attorney Joe Resnek's 🔥 Top Dog Law diss track, OA is ready to throw down with every other legal podcast that anyone actually listens to.* 10 RTs on this and @legalafmtn.bsky.social gets the business first -- *and also Law & Chaos

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San Jose City Hall Falcons: This year, all 4 chicks are males. They're ~5 weeks old—and starting to think about fledging. Smaller, lighter males don't need as much development time as females and fledge earlier. They're spending time these days on a low ledge scoping out the world they'll fly into.

i don't think this is correct, actually. in ~the summer of 2021, he presented his casus belli to the duma and it boils down to his belief that ukraine is not a legitimate state and int'l law isn't real. and we laughed, ha-ha, what a clown!—but he does seem to believes this. it bears out.

Middle-earth was born in a meeting of minds – and I'm proud to be part of a pioneering new book about this most formative of Tolkien's early friendships. bit.ly/jrrt-gbs #Tolkien #GBSmith #poetry #myth @stuartdlee.bsky.social

This is punishing innovation.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, FOLKS! THEY’RE JUST TESTING THE PRESIDENT’S BRAIN CONSTANTLY FOR NO REASON! HE’S FINE!

My special 65th Anniversary foil variant cover for FANTASTIC FOUR #15 by @ryannorth.ca and @ramosland.bsky.social Out on August 5th from Marvel.

🔥 Enduring wisdom from Marcus Tullius Cicero: “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.”

This innocuously-titled USCIS memo about how receiving residency in the US is a matter of "administrative grace" is a sadistic exercise of administrative violence designed to arbitrarily keep mixed-status families apart for what could quickly add up to *thousands of years.* Very quickly:

Sure. Don’t let anyone tell you “you have to give them this one.” The Nazis made the trains run on time but we don’t owe them the remotest credit for it. I doubt the people in our concentration camps are going to be excited they don’t have to adjust their clocks.

We found that Jeff Bezos paid zero taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. Revisit our 2021 story:

should have used those eyes to watch event horizon. that's the first thing they take. dummy.

Personally, I stopped using Spotify when they decided to fund Rogan, one of the most dangerous media personalities. But since they’re showing off their evil bone fides again, it’s a good time to suggest maybe don’t give your money to them?

The majority of currently elected Democrats are not suited to take the actions necessary starting in 2027 to pave the way for even more dramatic steps in 2029. That means we can't have the primary base hating Congress in the abstract but thinking their House member is fine. That's how we got here.

Archaeologists uncovered a secret chamber beneath Ukraine’s 12th-century Galician Castle, sealed off for 300 years after a 1676 siege. The soot-covered room may have stored or tested weapons, and hints of hidden tunnels could reveal even more secrets

#Tennessee tortures a man for almost 2 hour, then Governo grants 1-year reprieve. #Tennessee #DeathPenalty #StopExecutions #Torture open.substack.com/pub/williamk...

In 2017, we traveled to Brooklyn to do a show at BAM, and our guest dropped out at the last minute. We called Stephen Colbert and he agreed to fill in *but only if we asked him the questions we had prepped for the original guest, without telling him who it was.* www.npr.org/programs/wai...

Since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, hostilities have escalated into naval blockades and threats from both sides that could spark a wider war. The Onion examines the key facts and figures behind the conflict.

I don’t think “our Big Tent is full of varying conspiracy crazies and the other side is centered somewhere around an objective truth” is quite the own you thought it was, Political Right.

#Tolkien It’s time for #TheoryThursday and that means another mystery to wonder at! Today, I’ll talk a bit about a mystery from even before the First Age: Ungoliant. The name meaning in Sindarin is unclear, although almost certainly “ungol” meaning spider, Ungoliant was a spirit of darkness. 1/x

I’m so unreasonably happy that we got this decision. This is really, actually a very good result.