nothing incites my ip loathing like seeing a new lord of the rings/middle earth video game announced.
like, i'm very, deeply not from that neighborhood, fandom wise (i can't get through either the books or the movies), so maybe this new hobbiton life sim game* is actually the narrative lynchpin that's been absent from the grand narrative and world design of tolkein, but it does, never the less, feel rather ghoulish how much his work gets mined decades after his death.
* my exhaustion at this inane 'cozy game' fad is another matter















