me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing:

Friend: “You already had a pinecone.” Me: But what about second pinecone?

GANDALF: What can you see? Can you see anything? FRODO: Nothing...There's nothing… Wait. There are markings. GANDALF:

Frodo changes so dramatically he literally cannot even remain in his own realm anymore.

Sean Astin tells a story about a time when he felt the light shining on Frodo inside the tower if Cirith Ungol should be impossible, so he asked the Cinematographer Andrew Lesnie, "Where is the light coming from?" Lesnie replied "Same place the music does."

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another community was made.

Coming tomorrow in the newsletter: more LOTR Valentines! Here's a few of my favorites from the past two years:

Season 3 of #TheRingsOfPower officially a go!

Season 3 of The Rings of Power is officially underway.

i always see people post about how well the balrog’s CGI holds up from the fellowship of the ring, but what they don’t realise is that CGI wasn’t used at all! ian mckellen was simply so convincing as gandalf that an actual balrog rose from the depths and turned up to fight him

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