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As a bastion of open discourse and thus humanity, Substack is going to be the Battle of Helm's Deep this year, for sure.

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Train your arrows on any champion Uruk-hai sprinters bearing torches.

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So funny тАУ allow me to go painfully-postmodern for a moment and read more meaning into this than there probably is. In hindsight that hilarious scene is rich with relevant symbolism: the Uruk-hai is a synthetic "gain-of-function" cyborg of sorts, carrying a torch in obvious allusion to the Olympics, a perhaps once-genuine but now overtly-captured globalist charade. Davos is analogous to Orthanc too тАУ hubristic wizards scheming their domination in high places. Alright, enough.

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Spot on insight... You definitely read way more into anything I had intended but I am glad you did. The connections you made are loony but there.

That scene felt surreal, as if it were directed by Sam Raimi rather than Peter Jackson.

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Thank goodness Substack does not allow for inline images and GIFs as this thread would no doubt be clogged full of LOTR-memes by now.

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