I don’t know which is more lamentable here:
The revelation that the Tolkien estate has apparently received zero dollars for the (phenomenally good) movies New Line made of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy…
or…
The inability of the New York Times, at this very late date, to spell the author’s name right in a headline.
Surely the paper’s staff is riddled with people weaned on “The Hobbit” and the trilogy — people whose brains, at the first peripheral-vision scan of that misspelling, light up with red “error” messages shooting from axon to dendrite?
[This image is from the National Edition on paper, distributed here in the Bay Area. One can only hope that it got fixed for the later editions…]
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