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Wednesday, 22 October 2025
quote [ The shift from physical media to streaming didn’t create the phenomenon of retroactively editing a piece after airing. It’s a favorite hobby of George Lucas. Nor is it limited to film and television; The Nancy Drew novels were revised in the late ’50s to remove racist caricatures. This is a well-intentioned, if ahistorical version of this. ]
Unwinnable has a Disco Elysium special which made me stumble over this non-disco-elysian musing over how pop culture is getting revised in the making.
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mechanical contrivance said @ 8:20pm GMT on 23rd Oct
[Score:1 Insightful]
JRR Tolkien changed the Gollum part of The Hobbit to put it more in line with The Lord of the Rings.
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conception said @ 11:17pm GMT on 25th Oct
He also changed how he described Gollum after the amazing Tove Jansson drew him for a translation - https://i.redd.it/x6msf5tc8j6c1.jpeg - and JRR realized he didn't really give enough details.
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mechanical contrivance said @ 5:57pm GMT on 27th Oct
That's not at all what I was expecting to see. He looks more like an ent than the Gollum I know.
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conception said @ 4:14am GMT on 28th Oct
[Score:1 Informative]
https://www.thegamer.com/lord-of-the-rings-moomins-creator-forced-tolkien-to-rewrite-gollum/
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