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Surely now is a great time to be a Lord of the Rings fan, a time when the movies are a household name. But there was a time when the books were a cult phenomenon in the U.S., when Frodo Lives! was a slogan of the hippie movement and scrawled across buildings as graffiti. While there’s something undeniably romantic about a nerd bastion like The Lord of the Rings worming itself into culture at that level, well, it was also the environment that created this video.

The More You Know.


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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.