There's so much good stuff, Lord of the Rings related.

And so I take personal offense to what Matt Walsh is doing right here.

You know, a few weeks ago, I took a bold and courageous stand on my show, as I so often do.

In this case, I argued that the Lord of the Rings films, in particular Return of the King, the third one, is overrated.

Wrong!

We'll get into my argument, which is absolutely airtight and incontrovertible in a moment,

but a guy who also works here named Ben Shapiro did not appreciate that video.

He either could not grasp or refused to grasp my argument as cogent and utterly brilliant

as it was.

You see, Ben is a Lord of the Rings nerd.

He goes to Lord of the Rings conventions.

He has posters of Elijah Wood on the wall in his house.

He goes to Renaissance fairs dressed as

Eragon. He speaks elvish fluently. He has a Lord of the Rings lunchbox that he takes to work

every day. All these things are true, I assume. Now, when Ben found out that I don't like Lord

of the Rings, he collapsed into tears and he started screaming and flailing around and threatening to stab me with his collector's edition Lord of the Rings sword that was signed by the

guy who played the dwarf. But then I reminded him that, you know, getting blood on the sword

would ruin its resale value, so instead he just made a YouTube video attacking me again.

He is not happy with Lord of the Rings. In fact, Ben was so incensed by my entirely bulletproof criticisms that he brought in a team of experts to debunk me.

Now, how can anybody be an expert on a made-up story about made-up people?

How can someone be an expert on Middle made-up story about made-up people? How can someone be an expert on Middle

Earth when Middle Earth doesn't, you know, exist?

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