Could have been an interesting way to do Amazon’s series instead of just shitting over the silmarillion. Fill in the lives and occurences after lotr. Woul’dnt need Saruman or Wormtongue as the extended trilogy deals with them and they’re not strictly needed for the scouring.
Eh it would have been great, but as Jackson said, it feels like a 2nd climax after the death of Sauron.
A very common scam by the upper and elite classes was roughly:
Some of the “intolerable acts” were designed to prevent this from being possible. One of the biggest ones would be the “stamp act” that would provide the british banks a paper trail to track exactly who purchased deeds and other things for the fake companies.
This is explicitly why the initial riots in Boston and New York were completely faked. This is also why the Adams brothers(signers of the dec of independence) forced their newspapers to run fake letters and articles astroturfing support for a revolution.
I wish all Americans a “happy you got conned by your elite class into helping them avoid the consequences of defrauding British banks for years day”.
China is also weathering this by buying Canadian Tar Sand bitumen out from under the US.
Being secretly homosexual is irrelevant to their behaviour.
It has everything to do with them being oppressed into thinking it is evil and unnatural by religion.