Narrative Warfare: The Hands That Held Back The Orcs Are Gone

The estate of J.R.R. Tolkien is notoriously hostile to adaptations of the man's work outside of literature. Led by Christopher Tolkien, this policy has been in place for decades; what you have seen to date has been the result of a bad deal with a man named Saul Zaentz back in the '50s, using a license of for the core four (LOTR+Hobbit) as the basis for all the media adaptations you've seen to date. Even the best of them--the ones better than we deserved--bear that taint.

That changed. As seen on Superversive's blog:

Somehow I assumed that Christopher Tolkien was much younger, but maybe I just formed that image a long time ago. Regardless, it’s sad to hear of his passing. Outside of his father, the famed J.R.R., Christopher is probably the one most responsible for all things Middle Earth. He compiled his father’s notes and works into coherent wholes; without him, there would have been no Silmarillion, let alone any of the other works from Tolkien we’ve received since his father’s death in 1973. He’s also been a driving force in the amount of respect Tolkien’s legacy has been treated with; here’s to hoping it wasn’t just him protecting Middle Earth. I can already feel Disney circling in for the kill.

Now the Wokening of Middle Earth makes sense. None of this would be tolerated previously.

The new executors of the estate are not the hardliners that Christopher was, and the Death Cult has to know this. The recent Amazon series in the works shows this. Now they come for Middle Earth. They come for the dreamseed of the West itself. They're using "Death of the Author" to justify their corrupting of Tolkien's great gift to his people- to us. In time, they will do unto him as they did before to Lovecraft, Howard, and many others.

Unless, of course, we fight back.

Gondor calls for aid, Men of the West.

You all know what must be done. First the traitors--the Wormtongues, the Denethors, the Sacksville-Baggins--and then the invaders.