CapitalistImperialistPig

If we can stop worrying about the threat of Shariah for a moment, spare some worry cells for the growing threat posed by Druids. As you may recall, they were fond of burning to death human victims in their sacrifice rituals. It seems that they have already been recognized as an official religion in Britain - I don't think we do that here, but they have got to be a major threat. Of course whoever wrote the story is some kind of .... You can now breathe easily Lord of the Rings fans, for Druidry, the ancient belief that worships deities that assume different forms in nature, was recognized as a religion in Britain for the first time Saturday and granted charitable status. WTF? I don't think LOTR has much in common with Druidry.

Brad DeLong reposts an oldie of his alledging that the movie of Lord of the Rings was in some respects superior to the book. Let me be as a hammer to this heretic. January 02, 2002 Places Where the Lord of the Rings Movie Is Superior to the Book I'm sick and tired of reading about how the Lord of the Rings movie is different from the book and hence inferior, so I thought I would start keeping a list of elements in Peter Jackson's movie that I think (and that others think) are clearly superior to their counterparts in Tolkien's book: Improvement in the Logic of the Plot: Galadriel's opening, explaining just how it happens to be that the ring is still around--just why Isildur did not wish to/could not destroy it: "But the hearts of men are easily corrupted. And the ring has a will of its own." No way. In the book this idea is developed gradually and subtly. Nor is the corrupting effect of the ring confined to men - as Galadrial is forced to concede - man, el...