Derfel Cadarn

To be fair, making spending/tax cut promises without explaining where the money/savings are coming from is what Truss/Kwarteng tried, and as a resukt rents and mortgages shot up, and measures were needed to save our pensions. Labour promising the earth while not knowing the full state of the economy they will inherit is irresponsible.

Yeah. Leaving paradise to spend years crossing an arctic wasteland in order to fight a bitter fruitless war against a god is not what I’d call wise. Wise would have been calling it a day after the slaughter of the Teleri and theft of the ships, returning home to paradise.

True. He confused Elured and Elurin with Elrond and Elros! And apparently Morgoth is a balrog.

You’re making all sorts of mistakes today!

Weren’t the kids abandoned in the forest never heard from again? Elrond/Elros were adopted by Maglor later, when the sons of Feanor attacked the refugees from Doriath and Gondolin at the mouth of Sirion.

Brianna Ghey’s father not holding baxck https://news.sky.com/story/brianna-gheys-father-demands-apology-from-pm-after-trans-jibe-in-commons-13066231 What a fucking turd Sunak is

GB News is blaming Harry and Meghan for Charles’ cancer…

“Vladimir, why are you so good?!?”

My wife and I moved to East Renfrewshire (where she grew up and her brother and retired parents still live) entirely due to the state schools, which have two of the top three or four state schools in Scotland. This is why house prices are crazy here, but we both hsd flats to sell. My daughter goes to a Catholic primary school despite her heritsge being athiest parents of Protestant and Jewish backgrounds (one of my wife’s grandfathers was a bodyguard of Golda Meir’s). 50% of that school’s pupils are non-catholic, lot of muslim kids. My daughter’s feed-in secondary school is in the top 3 in Scotland. Had we stayed where my flat was, we’d probably have enrolled her in the very well regarded Gaelic school.

*Stares at the bold*

What about the (at least) two public holidays? (Funeral and coronation )

The advantage is probably mostly in the prestige (for top unis) and making contacts with other rich people

King Charles has cancer (not prostate) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68208157

To be fair, that swim would probably be quite pleasant compared to what she endured crossing the Helcaraxe (27 years I think), what’s essentially a dark arctic wasteland

He’ll draft any boy or man whoncan walk and have them charge guns/minefields en masse with what’s left of the Russian army waiting behind with guns ready to shoot anyone who doesnt advance

Russian convicts now signed up until end of the war, no longer just for 6 months https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68140873

There’s over a century between BG1 and 3, lus numerous big events (Sundering etc) during thet time.

If Russia takes Ukraine, it may well be mobilised Ukrainians he sends into the baltic states

What are these Americanisms you speak of?

You’ve still to elucidate exactly what these insidious ‘politics’ are. Lotr is a single book released in three volumes, not a trilogy.

Does ASoI&F have too much ‘American politics’ for you? I prefer ASoI&F by far. Imho Tolkein should have, post-Fellowship, spliced the Frodo chapters with the non-Frodo ones.

Fake chatter!

Maybe otger way round? The army wasnts 400k people called up, and zelenskyy has been hesitant

I think he was expelled for bullying. He apparently did gardening work for a while before getting into RADA, doibtless due to him being part of the Fox acting family. According to him lrdviously, it was also largely due to an ‘indiscretion’ with a girl at a dance.

Had to lol at the Tolkien estate’s epic trolling: As RoP season 1 comes out, probably watched mostly by those who’ve not read the books and almost certainly not The Silmarillion - and thus probaly know nothing about the history/lore - the estate releases a book called The Fall of Numenor. If the title was too subtle a spoiler, the cover shows the island being drowned by the sea…