I suggest that the racist #technology executives bought just the film they wanted.
The PJ #LOTR is one of the racists' biggest sources of emotional validation. The racist casting, the script that *emphasized* the racism, the outsized attention given to an especially smarmy and insincere portrayal of the Elves--practically stripped of their aetherial and haunting qualities in order to be presented as action heroes--who are now among the favorite symbols of bigots who use the especially disgusting and slimy depiction of the Orcs in PJ LOTR as a handy proxy for their bigotry.
And in the wake of those wretched movies? A thousand swindlers have come forth, eagerly seeking to goose up their high-tech swindles with a symbol stolen from Tolkien. "Palantir"? "Anduril"? And that ghastly #space mirror from Reflect Orbital is called "Earendil-1".
(cont'd)
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen
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