thiel has other companies named after various lotr things, lembas, anduril, mithril,etc.
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yakko@feddit.uk 2 days ago
We named our company after a device whose subtle power was such that even one of them in the wrong hands was a ruinous disaster for the entire world. And then we went straight to work for the CIA.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 days ago
yakko@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Oh I know. I hate how well the right’s playbook with Christianity adapts to their use of Tolkien - all of the surface, none of the message.
theherk@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Pretty on the nose. It shouldn’t be that easy.
yakko@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Tom Waits said "The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”