There were a lot of flags. Maybe you didn't read it carefully? Tolkien refers to Quendi people as “elves,” a common term in his time, but considered highly o

There were a lot of flags. Maybe you didn't read it carefully? Tolkien refers to Quendi people as “elves,” a common term in his time, but considered highly offensive today. or When I entered the Hobbit Studies program at the University of Chicago in 2003, I wasn’t planning to write my own translation. Like most of my peers, I was content to lead a quiet scholarly life, writing my dissertation on Adûni phonology and having friendly debates over second brunch about whether or not Balrogs have wings Or the changing of the college the author wants to work at from Franciscan to Jesuit. or referring to Pippin’s brain as “blunter than an orc’s dick,” gone is the Fellowship’s graphic struggle with dysentery in the Mines of Moria. There were a lot of signs.