Christopher Tolkien has sadly passed away at the age of 95. As any reader of JRR Tolkien's works knows, Christopher was far more than the curator of his father's works, and we are as much dependent on Christopher as we are on John for bringing the whole Middle Earth saga to print. John had immense creative genius, but, as with many of those kind of people, lacked the organisational skills to order things properly. It fell to Christopher, both before and after his father's death, to organise his father's work into a coherent whole. It was Christopher who was tasked with reading what would become The Lord of the Rings to the rest of the Inklings in Oxford and he who created the map of Middle Earth that would adorn each volume.
Largely considered an American artist, Thomas Cole (1801-1848) of the Hudson River School of artists was actually born in Lancashire along with his also talented artist sister Sarah. Thomas painted landscapes and scenes from myth and history and has been criticised by Leftist academia for his Eurocentrism. One notices this pseudo-intelligentsia never accuse Negro painters of Afrocentrism in the same way: Afrocentrism is always to be celebrated as an intrinsic good and Eurocentrism as an intrinsic evil in the anti-White quasi-religious zealotry of what passes for academia. In fact, Cole also painted American Indians, but was always conscious of preserving their distinctiveness and otherness apart from White Europeans, although this is viewed neither as a positive nor a negative, but left merely as a statement of fact. The Leftist establishment have also considered this problematical, but it reveals their bigotry. If a white artist portrays them how they are, he is guilty of "othering"; if he portrays them as more civilized in a European sense, he is guilty of colonialism.
In this particular Intermission, David Yorkshire takes a look at small-budget British horror film Possum, written and directed by Matthew Holness, who had previously written and starred in horror spoof TV series Garth Marenghi's Darkplace for Channel 4. The film is refreshingly diversity-free and offers a new spin on the well-worn horror trope of the puppeteer and his dummy....
With the others on holiday, David Yorkshire starts the New Year by taking a look at what will hopefully be the last Star Wars film of all time. It would be nice if it drew the curtain on Disney and Kathleen Kennedy's career too, but that appears unlikely. David would like to assure our listeners that he watched the film free of charge and urges others not to contribute to the revenues of the disseminators of anti-White propaganda.
