@BobDylan530@mattyglesias I also don't like the fact that he wrote the Battle of Morannon and the destruction of the ring as two separate sections, rather than cutting back and forth between them, building both to a climax at the same time.
I think the movie did it better.
@RadahnTheGOAT @mattyglesias Lord of the Flies.
Now, if you want to say that Lord of the Rings was the most *influential* novel published that year (or decade. Or possibly century) then you'd be on much firmer ground.
@Cpo10za@sarahjeong@darth Not sure how you can regulate them, sadly. Most of the ones I get are scams and it's a safe bet that many of them are coming from outside the US.
My cell provider correctly identifies about half of them as spam.
@brokenPrime@RadioFreeTom@EdwardGLuce@MSNBC I was just thinking about Biden's "gaffe" when, during the Obama Administration, he came out in favor of gay marriage. This was, IMHO, a trial balloon and not a gaffe (this was also not foreign policy involving a super-power, so maybe not relevant).