I know we’ve got a shitton of corporations naming themselves after the dystopian things in Lord of the Rings, but has anyone cut right to the chase and called their product “Omelas” yet?
Techbros read Tolkien but they do not read Le Guin.

@futzle

Technbros read Tolkien and think Sauron should've been the real hero and we're just reading the history written by the victors

@DartzIRL @futzle I'm not sure Sauron is the bad Guy. Sauron is an abstract incarnation of Evil. To me, the actual bad guy—the one Tolkien actually warns us about—is Saruman, who, not coincidentally, looks a lot like a techbro