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The White House WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to serve in key administration positions. Cathy Harris, Nominee for Chair of the Merit Systems Protection Board Geraldine Richmond, Under Secretary for Science, Department of Energy Daryl Baldwin, Nominee for Member of the National Council on the Humanities Sean Burton, Nominee for Member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Genine Macks Fidler, Nominee for Member of the National Council on the Humanities Beverly Gage, Nominee for Member o...

WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to serve in key administration positions. Cathy Harris, Nominee for Chair of the Merit Systems Protection Board Geraldine Richmond, Under Secretary for Science, Department of Energy Daryl Baldwin, Nominee for Member of the National Council on the Humanities Sean Burton, Nominee for Member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Genine Macks Fidler, Nominee for Member of the National Council on the Humanities Beverly Gage, Nominee for Member of the National C...

In this scattershot series, we’ll be delving “too greedily and too deep,” prying gems out of the glorious rough that is the extended legendarium of Tolkien’s world. This includes drawing on The Lord of the Rings itself, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, and the History of Middle-earth (or HoMe) books. Previously, on Tolkien’s Orcs… I concluded in part 1, which covered the monstrous hoi polloi of Middle-earth as presented in The Hobbit and in The Lord of the Rings, that Orcs are driven to mayhem—and frankly, the will to do anything substantive— by the powe...

The Rise and Fall of Númenor, Explained Twitter Amazon’s hard at work on their Lord of the Rings series, which is set to debut in 2021. But despite that fast-approaching debut date, we still know very little about the show. In fact, even calling it a Lord of the Rings series isn’t really accurate. (Thank you, Elijah Wood, for pointing that out.) We know that J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, a land in the world of Arda, is still the setting. But the show won’t chronicle the same events depicted in Peter Jackson’s original film trilogy. Those movies—which followed Frodo and the Fel...

In this scattershot series, we’ll be delving “too greedily and too deep,” prying gems out of the glorious rough that is the extended legendarium of Tolkien’s world. This includes drawing on The Lord of the Rings itself, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, and the History of Middle-earth (or HoME) books. Orcs, amirite? The shock troops of the Dark Lord’s armies. The rank-and-file of the bad guys in Middle-earth. Called a “hideous race” bred in “envy and mockery of the Elves.” Everyone’s got feelings about them. Feelings… and differing facts, maybe. It...