Jessica Smetana

Okay.

I landed on Stephen Colbert, Dan.

i'll start i love stephen colbert because he's the biggest lord of the rings nerd ever and while i'm sad that his show is going away he apparently is helping write a new lord of the rings movie based off of a chapter in the fellowship of the ring uh fog on the barrow downs which is when the hobbits are kidnapped by barrow whites and they barrow whites are like these kind of undead evil spirit things and this none of this showed up

in the movies.

There was no Tom Bombadil in the movies.

He was in the Amazon series, which was a fairly controversial decision.

But this movie would be one of, I think, one of readers' favorite chapters of The Lord of the Rings that never made it into Peter Jackson's original trilogy.

And so I'm really excited that he's gonna have time to work on this now.

And if we get more Tolkien content by someone like Stephen Colbert, who is a genuine fan and who loves it, and I think will be a great steward of J.R.R.

Tolkien's original intent in his work,

then I'm happy he'll have that extra time on his hands.

And I'm really excited to see this movie.

And I think a lot of Lord of the Rings fans feel the same way, Dan.

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Jess, have you seen this week's episode of Euphoria yet?

No, I was waiting for you to tell me about it.

I haven't seen it yet.

I've never seen the show, so I haven't seen this week's episode yet.

But I'll let you know when I get up to speed on everything happening, though.