I don't think that's correct. It seems like it originated from a magical context: something that puts a sexual "spell" on you
Excellent work finding the source, I was too lazy. Thank you for the info!
This is possibly the only thing that Troy (2004) did kind of correctly. The architecture is full of nods to Hittite and New Kingdom Egyptian culture (look at the design of the temple of Apollo!), and the costuming also points to Hittite and Assyrian designs.
There's a ton of mystery surrounding the fall of Mycenaean civilization, but there's at least some general agreement that Troy was at least partially based on a real city (with a different name), and that they not only shared some gods/cults with Mycenae, but also might have been directly allied with Mycenaean kingdoms.
I don't think there's any reason to believe that there was no mixing of cultures between the Anatolian sphere and the Mycenaean sphere, considering that the entire Eastern Mediterranean was known to trade heavily (ESPECIALLY the sea focused Mycenaean's).
Ah this happened to me this weekend! Not the train explosion, but the winedbg flood. For me, it was because I had my proton and steam Linux runtime installations on an NTFS disk instead of something more Linux native.
This meme, but with the scouring of the shire
This inn is heavily featured in the film "An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn". Great movie, and incredibly difficult to recommend because of how incredibly weird it is.
Lots of reasonable claims here, the fellowship is certainly an international menace. It's important in the political climate that Arda finds itself in to point out fallacies, even in rhetoric we agree with:
- The natural habitat of Balrogs is certainly not the deepest darkest depths of a mountain. In fact, Durin's Bane is more or less a squatter living in the unexplored basement of the mountain. I doubt he's even ever paid taxes!
- While certainly an enemy military (or militia), the fellowship doesn't directly cause any acts of terrorism in the borders of Mordor. The ring was honestly destroyed on accident, afterall, and the mess at Cirith Ungol was at worst a B&E without theft.
I'm about 90% sure that the last image is of Morgoth, not Sauron.
Firstly, Morgoth most famously wielded a mace (the original Grond) while Sauron didn't have any "famous" weapons. The mace here seems too featured to be coincidental. Second, the landscape seems to reflect what I would expect from a rendering of Angband rather than Mordor. Finally, the helmet appears more like Morgoth's iron crown than Sauron's film appearance (and a far cry from any of Sauron's descriptions in writings).
As other comments have pointed out, the name "Wormtongue" was just a nickname that those in Edoras called Gríma son of Gálmód. The name just officially stuck once Gandalf the White strolled on in and showed Théoden that Gríma was indeed a wormtongue
The taxation part of this is a bit of an unfair point. The US allows for an exclusion of ~$150k in foreign earned income if the US citizen qualifies as a bonafide resident of a foreign nation. On top of that, the IRS lets you deduct any taxes paid to a foreign government dollar for dollar against owed US taxes, and since most other developed nations have a higher tax rate, this essentially wipes out your US tax obligations (federal only, some states will still apply taxes separately). The only people actually double paying taxes are the ultra rich, but they obviously don't pay taxes at all since that's for the poors
Obviously, the system is still stupid and overly complicated (why should I even file a return with the IRS when I don't owe anything?), but it's not as egregious as this video makes it out to be
sigh I'll just put this here instead of writing it all over again: https://piefed.social/comment/10585049
This is an oft repeated factoid with lots of variations (my favorite is the tale that Tolkien's editor underlined "dwarves" and corrected it to "dwarfs" citing the OED. Upon seeing this correction, Tolkien allegedly replied "I wrote the OED, and I said dwarves"). This link seems to be a good resource in explaining the reality behind the difference: he was writing a lot very quickly, and made a mistake based in familiarity of plurals rather than philology or linguistics.
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