Hindsight is 2020

Production was a disaster and Jackson probably kicks himself every day for it

2001-2003 LoTR films were the very best Hollywood could ever do, true. And we will not soon see their like again.

Nope we won’t. I’m glad we got them. Brilliant adaptations of the books.

I have a class with some freshmen and 9/10 have never hear of LOTR

Its all about Harry Potter

A Hayao Miyazaki "Silmarillion" could be as good. In a different way.

He hates the base tendencies of more popular anime, and always strives for humanity and nature in his work.

I watch all six movies every year around December. Got my gf to endure it with me last month for the first time. I always wondered if there would be a remake, and what it would be like. But seeing how there’s no Star Wars remake, it’s making me think there won’t be a LOTR one

Also, for any LOTR nerds like me, there’s a way to read the whole story in chronological order, which I’m about to do for the first time. Just bought the rest of the books. Check it out if you’d like. I’ll probably post this again in the Lit server

http://www.chronology.org/tolkien/

I don't think it could be much improved anyway.

I also watch em all yearly.

Yeah the way books are broken up into Frodo&Sam vs the Rest is a challenge

Thinking about starting my yearly read early

Normally I do it in the fall

Definitely try the chronological read if thAt sounds like something you’d be interested in

I never read the books, my mom told me the timelines are crazy long though, like when they're climbing Mordor, its multiple years in the book

I could be wrong about what she said, its been a while

It’s much longer in the books. The time between Frodo getting the ring and actually leaving the shire is like 17 years yeah

http://lotrproject.com/timeline/#zoom=2&lat=-1485&lon=1500&layers=B

I like using this site for quick reference

Apparently American history from reconstruction to the modern day is now “climate change and white supremacy 102”

@Kingfish online course options available for non-credit? 🤔

So I have a professor that's an Indian lady right, but she's all about American folk lore and anti communist

Pretty cool haha I dig it

Dot or feather?

the anti-communist stuff seems like kind of a distraction

no one is seriously advocating for communism in the US

I mean, no one relevant

Dot. Eh I don't know I appreciate it. I also figure that I have to calibrate to be in a college setting. They can't handle my scorching hot takes

idk if this has been posted before, but it seems to be a physical depiction of the overton window shifting

Is the "voters" segment based on how they voted?

@Current Ronin isn't that kind of a low effort thing to oppose, though? It's like being "anti-fascist"

to be completely honest, if I had to choose between white communism and multicultural capitalism I'll take white communism easily

it's not really a relevant threat to us right now especially compared to other things

I'm just amazed that she's not pushing full globohomo super communism

And there's a pro America stance even though it's the multi culti version. It's a college and college is totally pozzed so I'll take the anti communist rhetoric as a positive haha

every now and then you get the odd hyper-assimilated immigrant like that