It was a wrap on Lord of the Rings: Two Towers in Concert last night as we rounded out our sixth show - three in Calgary and three in Edmonton.
It’s a marathon, not a race, but every audience was amazing and so worth it. It was so fun to see all the creative costumes in the audience!
Growing list of those born or died on September 2 in any year
Katt Williams
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#blackwomen black women #blackhistory #whitehistory #lotr #blacktv #blackfilm #blackmastodon
Micah Sierra "Katt" Williams (born September 2, 1971) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He played Money Mike in Friday After Next ... provided the voice of A Pimp Named1/4
#blackcomedians #blackchristians #blackhomeless #blackunhoused #blackfilm #blacktv #blackmastodon
Tolkien was a racist.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an [english] writer and academic philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955).
[These depicted dark skinned peoples on the side of evil reinforcing negative stereotypes making Tolkien racist.]
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an [english] writer and academic philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955).
[These depicted dark skinned peoples on the side of evil reinforcing negative stereotypes making Tolkien racist.]
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What's this?
A bunch of #protesters dressed up as #Gandalf from #LotR in #Argentina in front of a mansion
Ok. And?
That mansion is owned by #PeterThiel, the sweaty druggy fascist #techbro who owns #Palantir (the panopticon privacy erasing spy machine which gets its name from LotR)
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"YOU. SHALL. NOT. PASS!"
🧙💨🔮
Peter Thiel became the focus of an unusual protest outside his Buenos Aires home. A group dressed as Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings gathered with signs and chants aimed at the billionaire tech inv...Misbah Pandith (Yahoo News)
Did anyone see the #Odyssey?
The scene where they are decimated by the Laestrygonians (3,000 yo spoiler) uses forced perspective to make "giants" (like how they made "hobbits" in #LOTR)
2m men in the background, a 1.4 m/ 4 foot 6 inch woman in the foreground, a small aperture, et voila: giants
Woman?
You mean #MattDamon
No
That's #DevynDalton, a Canadian stuntwoman, on the movie's poster. Matt Damon called her biceps "the greatest arms I have ever seen":
Matt Damon on his stunt double #happysadconfused #joshhorowitz #mattdamon #theodyssey To get early access to all of Josh's interviews plus bonus content, mer...Josh Horowitz Clips (YouTube)
Latin nerds, I need you!
Offering Elvish nerdery in return 👇
Trying to translate "keep it secret – keep it safe" to #Latin, which I know is tricksy. Looking at verbs like servare and conservare, and adjectives for "safe" like tutus/salvus/securus...??
If you can help, I will write your phrase of choice in Tengwar (Elvish script)! Here's a sample of one way I write it – though I'll do straight lines 😅
I'll write them on a livestream and link image files for you.
// #linguistics #LOTR #Tolkien
This was too funny to not share it on here 😂
EDIT: Updated ALT description
#meme #funny #lotr #LordOfTheRings #Tolkien
