Comments on: Single Ladies

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:04:40 +0000

However, the subtext is a joke on it’s own – LOTR explicitly has no allegory: “As for any inner meaning or message, it has in the intention of the author, none. It is neither allegorical nor topical.” As an English scholar he wrote it to be exactly what it is – a fantastic epic.

By: CluelessGeek

CluelessGeek — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:13:09 +0000

What about “eager Beyoncé would’ve made one badass Nazgȗl.”?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:01:08 +0000

Oh no! What have I done! I’ve created a monster of confusion and snarkiness, instead of explaining everything!

By: Faris

Faris — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:12:04 +0000

im pretty sure there is an explainexplainxkcd

By: Grieves

Grieves — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:22:17 +0000

I was going to type this exact same thing. It was a brilliant comic. I too never saw the underlying theme behind LotR until this comic!

By: Icarus

Icarus — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:51:29 +0000

Do you realise what you’ve done here?
Your ‘best video of all time’ comment was a subtle joke in itself. Keep doing that and we’ll need an explainexplainxkcd to explain your jokes too.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:30:08 +0000

I agree. Nice work Gordon.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:21:56 +0000

You haven’t fully explained the joke here. It’s a double whammy. First, there is the surface level joke that Sauron, the chief antagonist in Lord of the Rings, got his big idea to create a ring to bind his enemies with from Beyoncé’s song.

But the second joke comes in the image text. When he says, “wow, just got the subtext there,” he’s implying that the real, underlying message behind the Lord of the Rings series is that marriage is an evil and oppressive contract in which one spouse is “bound” to the other’s will by a ring.

By: MissStickBug

MissStickBug — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:39:48 +0000

I thought it was the other way around… he’s sad because he tried to put a ring on it and couldn’t.

But then again, he wouldn’t be around to frequent a pub, would he?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:20:34 +0000

This is an aside so I will leave it as a comment, but I loved this comic. Perfect mix of LOTR nerdiness and pop culture.