Leo, whose last name differs by a doubled letter from Ebert, posts for the first time in a month, "A Tale From Numenor." Approximately one hour before that (can't say precisely, as Leo's posts don't have timestamps), Maolsheachlann just happens to post "Ebert's Most Hated." I suppose a further link is that Maolsheachlann calls himself a "Papist," while Leo has joked that the RCC could have called him if they wanted a real Pope Leo.
I haven't read either post yet. We'll see if they have anything else in common.
Update: Having now read Leo‘a post, I can say it’s also “Ebbert’s most hated.” That is, of all the things he’s ever posted, I hated it the most. (Don’t take it personally, Leo. I know you disclaim authorship, and understandably so!)
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Leo's first name also differs by a doubled letter from Lee.
Well now...my initials are LEE.
Alright I'll bite. Why exactly do you hate it? Or is it just the most hated but you love all of my content so much that you still love it tremendously and it is thus merely the most hated on a technicality?
Anal sex has no place in Tolkien's world. And the scattering the flocks thing didn't really make sense. But I get that you're just relaying what you received.
Hmm I'm not really following the criticism, You do understand it was the bad guys doing the bad things, right? Why could bad guys murder and destroy but not go gay? It's similar to what we read in the PoGP about Cain's combination:
"For, from the days of Cain, there was a secret combination, and their works were in the dark, and they knew every man his brother."
Also, what didn't make sense about the flocks getting scattered?
It's not a criticism or an argument, just an aesthetic reaction.
I can understand that. I remember reading once where I think JRR was responding to some criticism of his texts missing sex, essentially. He said something like he wanted to tell the tales without the “gross” if I recall correctly. But then he went on to say that it is there only subtly and gave the example of Galadriel’s statement during her temptation of the ring wherein she spoke of her potential to have unspeakable beauty and that all would love her and yet despair to not have her. Essentially she was tempted to become the world’s greatest sex symbol. To your point, Tolkien chose to not put it so bluntly. But it is there.
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