Was Gandalf a Machiavellian Schemer Who Used Others as Pawns?

One of my pet peeves when it comes to movies and other videos/audio about Tolkien is that so many people don't seem to know how to pronounce things properly, despite the fact that Tolkien provided a p...

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Did you know the Hobbit you read isn't the Hobbit Tolkien originally wrote? It's also not the one Bilbo originally wrote...

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In my previous video about Tolkien's lecture/essay, "On Fairy Stories" (here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnMG5HhKK50), I focused on the theme of sub-creation. Here, I want to discuss another con...

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"On Fairy Stories" is a lecture delivered by Tolkien in which he goes over some of his thoughts on the fantasy genre, its purposes, proper audience, and value as an art form. It's full of gems, so I ...

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I'm a purist, but I love the Lord of the Rings movies even though they have tons of flaws. How do I manage it? This is how I approach a viewing of Peter Jackson's trilogy.

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As I mentioned in my previous video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMN60djLaek), as a purist I find a lot of things about Peter Jackson's movie adaptation that I find...lacking. This list is about ...

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Two weeks ago I talked about the really good stuff in Peter Jackson's movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXxGQ0tsWII Last week I talked about the scenes that could have been much better with j...

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Last week (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXxGQ0tsWII) I discussed what I think are the best scenes in Peter Jackson's movie trilogy. In this video, I want to discuss the scenes that were pretty goo...

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