If You’re Going To Be Mad About The Rings Of Power, At Least Get Your Quotes Right
People are mad about The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. People get mad often. Some people want the female dwarfs to have beards, some people want nothing new added to the canon, despite Tolkien literally writing that he wanted to “leave scope for other minds and hands.” Some people are mad about people of colour being in the series, to which I say: fuck off you racist. Some people are mad about the time compression, to which I say: yeah that could be a potential problem, but wait until you’ve seen the show before going in too hard. But, to be short, people are mad.
I’m not one to complain too hard about something I haven’t seen yet, but some complaints seem legitimate. Others are presumptuous, misogynistic, racist, or all of the above. However, if you’ve watched the new Super Bowl trailer on a platform like YouTube (how else would you watch it?), you’ve probably seen the same quote doing the rounds.
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“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.” The quote is attributed to JRR Tolkien. You may have also seen this written in Russian. Many, many times.
However, this quote isn’t from the Professor at all. Dr. Sara Brown, faculty chair of the Language & Literature M.A. program at Signum University, discovered that the origin in fact seems to be from the website TVTropes. It does not appear in any of Tolkien’s works. I mean, come on. If you’ve read even a single sentence of Tolkien you’d know that that sounds nothing like him. Even The Hobbit, a book for actual children, has more complicated sentences than that. Tolkien was a professor of linguistics - think about
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