I loved Dracula, but I hated Dracula (1931). And Blackula (1972). And I hated the Hammer Horror Dracula series without ever having seen them. This may change; I am a fallibilist about my own tastes. But Christopher never has been, is not, and likely will never be scary. He’s just handsome and regal and stately and polished. No fangs or oatmeal Frankenstein makeup will change that. And as the Anti-Gandalf he was evil and cool but never scary—especially not during that battle at the top of of Orthanc, the stone tower of Isengard.

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— Paste list

— Then do vampire lovers first jack fantasy. First kind of woman I wanted to worship etc. sexually. (Doesn’t sexual worship always mean oral sex, analingus, and the desire to consume fluids and excrement? Isn’t that the highest kind of lust—the wanting of that kind of oral consumption? Isn’t all non-repulsive erotic talk death-by-metaphor for the truth of our lust? Lust is correlated with excited hunger for what is most repulsive. Intensity of lust correlates with more material repulsiveness and gestural lewdness (openness, vulnerableness, gapingness, and what is awkward and shameful).

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Orthanc in Isengard

Mordor

Tolkien achieved a special kind of immortality. There are whole wikis dedicated to sorting out, detailing, linking, and proving the naturalness of his fictional world history. People memorize, organize, rehash, research, and debate the various depictions in his writing to iron-out a System. When your writing becomes a whole world AND and object of real hermeneutic labor, you are immortal.

This obsession with “getting right” the systematic This is the kind of work people did (do) on the Word of God.

Tanakh, weird made-up Gospels, Bible

Only the facts about Tolkien’s

PROOF: All the LOTR main terms are included in the Apple spelling dictionary!