The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

Wagner was an anti-semitic proto-Nazi. I understand why some people don’t want to listen to music composed by anti-semitic proto-Nazis. I ev...

Watching The Penguin is a deeply unpleasant experience.  That's not a criticism. Presumably, it is supposed to be. The protagonist, Oz C...

At one stage, Tolkien wanted the Lord of the Rings to run to four volumes, rather than the published three. Volume IV would have consisted o...

Oh please don't agree with me! When people agree with me I feel sure I must be wrong!  Is there no-one who actually likes and understand...

  My reviews of Rings of Power Season II, complete without outtakes, extras and lots of digressions is now available as a smart little PDF. ...

Conservatives really like sculpture. They specially like marble carvings of ladies in wedding veils, or with silk sleeves, or with little la...

We keep being warned that the Assisted Dying Bill is a Slippery Slope. Allow physcians to prescribe suicide pills to terminally ill adults w...

The Rings of Power is a talisman and a surrogate for a certain kind of toxic fan schism. I think that you think that I am a gatekeeper; you ...

The Rings of Power plays fast and loose with the imaginary history of Middle-earth. But  historical TV shows and movies play fast and loose ...

Does Tolkien contradict himself?  Very well: he contradicts himself.  He contains multitudes. He never finalised his meta-narrative; at any ...