Palantir, the data analysis defense contractor co-founded by Peter Thiel, was named after the magical seeing stones from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books. This video compares the ethos of
Tolkien was there during the Battle of Somme where tanks were technically introduced to the world albeit not as devastating as they were in ww2. Still, no wonder this was the inspiration for Mordor and a few other places in lotr that I forgot the name of.…
We’ve reached the final matchup in our legendary quest to find the best literary film adaptation of the last 50 years. Given the state of reality, it’s not too surprising that, after th…
