Putin Explains Middle-earth to Tucker

“Okay, but what does that have to do with Gandalf sending a hobbit into Mordor?” “I am just coming to that. You said you wanted a serious conversation, not a talk show. You see in the beginning, all the creations of Illuvatar, the Ainur, sang harmoniously, but not Melkor...”

Tucker Carlson looks confused while Vladimir Putin gestures as if explaining Tolkien’s mythology. The joke imagines Putin answering a question about Gandalf and the hobbit by giving an extremely long, unrelated explanation of the Silmarillion and the history of Middle-earth. It is used as a reaction to someone avoiding the point with an overly elaborate digression.

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