I think about this often, too. But it also makes some sense. Think of how many people we'd have to find time to celebrate, who are living and who we do appreciate. It's overwhelming (in a good way). When they pass, they are part of a fortunately smaller list to manage. It's a harder reminder.

ALSO: The Discord app/logo looks like Mickey Mouse’s pants. I’m tired of no one talking about it and I can’t stop seeing it.

And also because hungry/angry people are more likely to push back (eventually) and do rash things, which provides an excuse to invoke greater undeserved powers. The idiots in power doing things irresponsibly are wrangled by people smarter (and just as evil) as they are.

They're taking the hobbits to . . . Transylvania? (And the castle of Dracula of Many-Colours!)

"I am Isildur's heir. Fight for me and I will hold your oaths fulfilled! What say you?"

♪ "This is a thing called a Precious!
The whole thing starts with a box . . ." ♫

"Authority is not given to us to deny the return of the Pumpkin King."

I can make a fun list of artists I'd love to get compose some Middle-earth music. McKennitt definitely is on that list. So is Jon Anderson (who technically did do one track already), and Lisa Gerrard, and Annie Haslam, and Annelie Drecker, and . . .

Really sorry to hear this, Marcel. For your loss and clearly so many others.

Adorable. He reminds me of a dog who looked very much the same, who I knew as a kid (not our dog) named Ranger.

Little tiny Glamhoth "din-horde" noises, absolutely. And maybe some dwarf-boots-tramping-down-their-Dwarf-road sounds, too, when drawing that dotted line.