Admittedly this is on LOTR memes comm, so a little bit of fantasy is surely permitted ;)

Plural elves has been the standard before Tolkien: https://www.websters1913.com/words/Elf

As for dwarves, this is what Wikipedia has to say, with reference to P. Gilliver et al. The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary:

Modern English has two plurals for the word dwarf: dwarfs and dwarves. Dwarfs remains the most commonly employed plural. The minority plural dwarves was recorded as early as 1818. However, it was later popularized by the fiction of philologist and legendarium author J. R. R. Tolkien, originating as a hypercorrective mistake. It was employed by Tolkien for some time before 1917.[6] Regarding his use of this plural, Tolkien wrote in 1937, “I am afraid it is just a piece of private bad grammar, rather shocking in a philologist; but I shall have to go with it.”[6]

Can you point me to something more specific than a bunch of disjointed and duplicate emails? The database is really difficult to navigate.

4chan was also an Epstein creation.

These claims of 4chan-Epstein connections are becoming more and more ridiculous. No, 4chan was not an Epstein creation.

Funny how I never see this statement posted on /c/memes@lemmy.ml

Better chances to vote it away than shitpost it away, as far as Lemmy’s options go.

The emails also revealed the rich pedophiles manipulated quanon to their advantage

They don’t reveal that.

Every word he writes is important.

Do you see my comment? That means you haven’t followed Tyler’s wise advice. You should try it again!

Elections were upcoming, he was just stoking panic. His “tweets” are always disjointed babble with little relation to the ongoing political matters.

Is this loss?

People claim it was blown out of proportion (with inflated numbers) or that it was presented selectively (without mentioning Bosniak and Croatian atrocities). This is a relatively frequent idea among American leftists, at least the more radical circles which are common on Lemmy.

Similar to Ukraine, tbh. Basically, nothing has to be “clear and obvious” if you don’t want it to be.

Keep in mind you’re on a site where a solid number of users might downplay or relativise Srebrenica.

Khan made lots of kids tho. This one did it just for the love of the game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Howe_Lovatt

It is extremely unlikely we’re literally free of mines. You can clean up an area, and yet miss a few mines. Mines can sink under ground through time, and reappear again as the soil moves around. People have died in supposedly mine-free areas. Thankfully the numbers have been minimised, but you can never be 100% sure.

underpaid people

Nobody is paid for editing Wikipedia, the economic incentive is nonexistent.

(Except for shills/manipulators.)

Edit: I should’ve read the article.

Excellent question! I’ve no idea :/

I played it as much as H3 when I was a kid. I don’t know if I can judge it objectively, but I really do enjoy it a lot to this day, and I enjoy the more ‘experimental’ components. When I get tired of H2/H3, it’s great to spice up the formula. It has some downsides: weaker AI, the town screens and creature models are charmless… standard complaints, I guess you’ve already heard them all. But as I’ve gotten into the game early on, I just came to ignore those parts. There’s also Equilibris to smooth some things out.

The campaigns that throw walls of text at you also helped me become more fluent in reading English. :D

This would hardly be the first case of an authoritarian regime calling language/dialect erasure good because umm it removes the barriers between people.