Fair point. The orcs of third age probably mostly drove Skodas.

The parsimonious position is neither that Orcs did or did not drive Ferraris to work as part of Sauron's compensation package to them, but that some orcs may have sometimes driven Ferraris to work.

Dan there are two universal truths:

1) Balrogs do not have wings.
2) Feanor did nothing wrong.

Yes, the wings are a metaphor for the shadow. Literally following on from a simile “shadow… like two wings”. Why would it have shadow *like*wings if it already had wings?!?

I can’t believe I have to explain similes and metaphors to a journalist.

@dangaristo.bsky.social this is how Balrog wingers imagine Durin's bane.

You think a glorified penguin is going to go toe-to-toe with Gandalf? Come off it.

Dan, do not let me question your judgment: If you believe that Balrogs had wings you are very very wrong.

You probably also think that Feanor did something wrong. Feanor did nothing wrong. Period.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXKn...

There are some differences between UK and international BBC.

Still there on their science page, now with a seemingly AI generated picture: www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...

NO BBC! Don't summon them, don't do it!

It has come to the authors' attention that the unit of 'hour' was not defined in the original manuscript. Within the context of our experiment, 'hour' was used to denote 30 days. The authors confirm that all results within the manuscript are valid and entirely consistent with this definition.

Sergey your joke doesn’t work: If they were travelling close to the speed of light then they would have had even less than 22 hours to make the decision (as appears here on Earth).

Please issue an immediate retraction of the joke.

Essentially this is all because in the UK the tuition fee is the main funding for teaching and has been essentially frozen since 2010. It would be unpopular to freeze university funding from the central government, but freezing a tuition fee paid by the students is more acceptable to the public.