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Lord of the Rights
The richest man on Earth has spent some money:
two-hundred-fifty million, so we hear,
for rights to make what some will not think funny:
a TV-series "based on" "writings" "near"
to what an Oxford don had not completed
but "might have" had he lived another year
or ten. His death left fandom feeling cheated
who wanted more of Tolkien's Middle-earth.
Escapist fantasies: Morgoth defeated!
In fact, where joined by Amazon's net worth,
the HBO and Netflix "streaming" plan
distracts from sights of "good guys" doomed from birth,
defeated by the common peasant man
in Vietnam and now Afghanistan.
Michael Murry, "The Misfortune Teller," Copyright © 2021
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"If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." -- Tweedledee
Last edited by Michael Murry; 08-26-2021 at 02:38 PM.
Reason: emphasis and punctuation
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