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An Interview with JRR Tolkien and Other Tomfoolery

Lord of the Links writes: "These wackjobs pretend to interview JRR Tolkien with a ouija board as well as slapping together other nonsense, like photoshopped Ringwraiths from the movie doing bizarre things. I laughed once or twice, especially the diary by Gollum. The girls side left something to be desired, but the script revisions were kinda funny. If you feel like feeding into the Lord of the Rings hype, check it out."

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  1. Maybe he'd do an interview for slashdot... by Urthpaw · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdotite: What distribution of Linux do you use?

    JRR: Crazy Web folk...

  2. Re:Not at all. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thank you, Adolf Stallman.

  3. Tolkien was a genocidal maniac (PC LOTR) by pyramid+termite · · Score: 5, Funny

    A long time ago, the Orcish race was minding its own business in the mountains, playing with rocks and peacefully eating grubs and scorpions as is our wont. Without even the pretense of giving us beads or a piece of paper called a treaty, first the Dwarves, then the Elves and Men, invaded our caves and forced us out by swordpoint, all for the pretty little rocks they called gold and silver and mithril, none of which we ever cared about. Ever since then, our legitimate claims on our birthright have been ignored, while our people have been forced to stay in the reservations of Moria and Mordor, when once they claimed all of the Misty Mountains as their home. We are branded terrorists and evil by the Wise and their scrolls of wisdom while our true story goes untold. Tolkien, master propagandist for our oppressors, has told several blatant lies about our kind, leading the average LOTR reader to conclude that we were spontaneously generated out of Sauron's refuse heap somehow, and never have such things as women, children and families. He accuses us of senselss massacres and cannabilism, all the while ignoring the genocide and oppression our folk have suffered. The movie compounds the error by making us look green and slimy with mummified eyes, a gross racial stereotyping that would have the NAACP up in arms were it applied to people of color. Don't fall for the Elvish propaganda of Peter Jackson and J.R.R. Tolkien, but discover the truth for yourselves. We, like other 3rd Middle Earth peoples like the Trolls, the Balrogs, the Werewolves (Wargs, indeed - not once do you find in LOTR our Warg comrades being described as anything but howling animals), and the Great Spiders have been maligned by a baseless libel and demand that the record of history be set straight.

    Sincerely,
    Gorbag,
    The Orc Liberation Front

    1. Re:Tolkien was a genocidal maniac (PC LOTR) by discogravy · · Score: 2, Funny

      you know what they say: history is written by those not hacked to tiny bits by
      vicious in-fighting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H winners.

  4. Re:"phtoshopped" by The+Great+Wakka · · Score: 2, Funny

    The serious graphics professional accepts no imitation for Photoshp. Period.

    (emphasis added)

    Except, of course, Photoshop.

    --
    Everything is mainstream now.
  5. Boycott the MPAA! by msm1th · · Score: 5, Funny

    (after you see this movie. Oh, and star wars episode 2. and terminator 3. thanks.)