It's the 15th anniversary of "They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard"

no occasion i know of, just got the urge to do it. my partner and i both grew up heavy in the evangelical brainwashing machine so it was fun to revisit a piece of media as projected-onto by the right wing theocrats as that one, with fresh eyes. hadn't seen them since they first came out on video. without a bunch of authoritarian adults telling you how to interpret it, it's fun to focus on sam and frodo's gay longings, instead of on the weird patriarchal aragorn/arwen thing they shoehorned into the movies that wasn't really accounted for in the books. it was edifying to see the messages JRRT put in there about trying to hold on to hope in the midst of hopeless times (when you just lived through WW1 and watched all your childhood friends walk into machine gun fire), instead of just the glorification of a bunch of white noble-blooded dudes (and eowyn) in gleaming armor slaying ravenous hordes of mindless brown skinned orcs.