Quintin Jardine's blog

Continuing my Tolkien theme, I have been watching the Prime Video prequel to Lord of the Rings. I find myself wondering why in the minds of its creators, dwarves have Scottish accents while their even smaller neighbours, hobbits, have a fine Irish brogue.

How the hell can Amazon be simultaneously xenophobic and sizeist?

Elves? Public school and perfectly groomed. Men? Not quite as posh, but they wouldn’t affect property values.