Fingolfin’s Findings LXIII: Wulff & Morgenthaler run Uruk in Middle-earth

With the huge amount of comic strips on the web I only occasionally stumble across ‘new names’ when there is a Tolkien connection that goes beyond a panel or two. Also, given the fact that WUMO is supposedly part of the Welt (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (media bias (Si apre in una nuova finestra)) newspaper which I only rarely read, except on special occasions, I had not seen this before.

However, there seems to be a certain interest in Middle-earth I would like to show in this post.

Wikipedia summaries this as:

WUMO (Si apre in una nuova finestra), formerly Wulffmorgenthaler, is a webcomic and newspaper comic strip (Si apre in una nuova finestra) created by Danish writer/artist duo Mikael Wulff (Si apre in una nuova finestra) and Anders Morgenthaler (Si apre in una nuova finestra).

This is a post with two weeks early access to my supporters and which has now been made public.

Let’s have a look at all the ‘Tolkien’ comic strips

And yes, it does not have to be your piece of cake - it really is not mine, to be honest: “Content ranges from sideways social satire to complete non-sequitur (Si apre in una nuova finestra), and relies on both intelligent humor and simple slapstick.” [WP]

I was also not quite prepared as to how much time I would have to spend on going through all the posts - ranging from October 2024 back to December 2012 (Si apre in una nuova finestra). So it took me quite a while to find all of the panels with a ‘Tolkien connection’ and I have listed them here, moving backwards in time.

You can skip my comments if you like, of course.

I am not quite sure whether this is truly about JRRT - there is a certain character in a certain US series - but given the fact that we had the new Letters edition it should work. 😅

The All-Seeing Eye made popular by the films certainly has its place with WUMO.

A proper wizard always keeps his staff close, evidently.

I am wildly assuming this is a rendition of Legloas…

If only… 🤪

It feels unfortunate…

Good to see that Rohan will answer…

Legolas seems to have a place with these satirists…

Ummmmm…. Well. 🤓

It would have made things easier, for sure… 😎

I have often thought about the construction of Barad-dûr… and its issues!

Okay, that is fairly funny, at least to me 🤩

The pandemic left its mark in so many ways…

I rue the day Peter Jackson came up with the idea of the flashlight-eye…

The legendary lost & found gag… 🤪

“It’s a hobby!” 😄

Well, it sometimes feels a little like it?

Yeah, that really is a bad idea 😅

Sadly enough, with a company like Palantir, this feels … depressing.

Some strips I liked but with no apparent connection

Well, one thing is for sure: Dragons usually do not have any self-confidence issues.

I can relate. 🤣

At a superficial level they certainly seem to have a point.

This one is just for me 😂

One thing is for sure - ‘perception’ of nerds has changed in the last two decades.

Well, I do hope there were a few fun ones in here for you. As I did my Magister Artium thesis on caricatures (Kennedy - Adenauer era, ‘60s) I always have an interest in comic strips in newspapers as they are ‘signs of the times.’