Y'all. Seriously. Hardly anyone even understands the unbelievable depth of Tolkien's linguistic genius. If ever there was an artist just straight up making jokes that only he would ever get, omg. So get this, it's epic. You know the "Brandywine River" in Lord of the Rings?

Peter Thiel is very skilled at getting tech to handle classic institutional functions that have broken down. So skilled that nobody notices: Palantir is IT consulting, Anduril is defense contracting, and now Founders Fund is doing industrial policy to indigenize nuclear fuel.