imagine if you made a new lord of the rings series about how there’s a new mini sauron, a whole new group of heroes, and a whole new cursed item

it would suck, right? because then everything Frodo had done wouldn’t matter as much

this is why people don’t like the new star wars

— belligerent wine mom (@robertjbennett) June 22, 2018

Here is Tolkien, writing to his son Christopher who was serving in the Royal Air Forces in 1944, about the inevitability of Dark Lords.

"We are attempting to conquer Sauron with the Ring. And we will it seems succeed. But we will thereby breed new Saurons." pic.twitter.com/JcwkZf28c2

— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) June 23, 2018