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    ‘Game of Thrones’—and the fantasy genre—has a diversity problem

    Andray Domise: Why fantasy TV shows and movies like ‘Game of Thrones’ should ignore the genre’s core Medieval tropes around race

    The Interview: The Hobbit director Peter Jackson

    Director Peter Jackson on his last Tolkien movie, his favourite villain—and why his kids haven’t read Lord of the Rings

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    “We’re going to out-Klingon Klingon!”

    A strong late entry in the “significant word of 2009” sweepstakes would be the noun and verb “conlang”. A conlang is any consciously constructed language; familiar examples include “auxlangs” developed in earnest for international use, like Esperanto, but the hot new conlang is the tongue developed for the giant soft-porn Smurfs in James Cameron’s Avatar by business professor and linguist Paul Frommer.