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Michael Martinez
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Michael Martinez writes Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog, a personal blog at middle-earth.xenite.org about culture and writing. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in threads about Tolkien's Middle-earth, including the logistics of the Siege of Gondor. The comments cite Wikipedia alongside it and do not judge the writing itself.
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What Hacker News says?
Interesting, although the books indeed don't mention it I don't think it's entirely out of the question. from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc_(Middle-earth) > Tolkien indicates that Orcs are "always hungry".[24] Orcs eat all manner of flesh, including men and horses, and there are frequent hints of cannibalism among Orcs. Grishnákh, leader of the Mordor Orcs, accuses Saruman's Uruks of eating Orc-flesh, which they…
Comment linking /what-do-orcs-eat
on “The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics”Submitted Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Tolkien Elves as a story · 119 points
HN discussionThis sounded far too intriguing to not google a bit. I'm guessing you're talking about this? > J.R.R. Tolkien first tangled with copyright law in the mid-1960s when ACE Books discovered that the copyrights for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit had not been properly secured in the United States by his American publisher. ACE Books opportunistically published unauthorized paperback editions of those books in the Un…
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on “Eyeo wins German copyright decision, sets legal precedent for who ‘owns’ HTML”Submitted How Faithful Is Amazon’s Rings of Power to JRR Tolkien’s Books? as a story · 35 points
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