
SIMON: Professor Drout says he sees one argument that might spare the doctor jail time. MICHAEL DROUT: Gollum is not meant to be a pure evil character ever. The judge overseeing the case has postponed it until February to give a group of experts time to answer the question, how evil is Gollum? What would you say? Michael Drout is a professor of English at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and a widely published Tolkien scholar.

Gollum isn't as well-known in Turkey as he is in, say, most American middle schools. SIMON: But the case against Bilgin Ciftci will take time. Why? He posted a meme - side-by-side pictures comparing Turkey's President Erdogan to the character Gollum from "Lord Of The Rings," Gollum, that small, slimy creature who lives on raw, blind fish and is obsessed with putting his knobby hands on the one ring to rule them all. The subreddit /r/lotrmemes has become a popular place for people to share their favorite Lord Of The Rings memes, and our favorite ones have been listed below.Bilgin Ciftci, who is a doctor in Turkey, has been fired from his government job and faces up to two years in jail. More recently, the release of the new video game The Lord of the Rings: Gollum has led to some particularly entertaining memes about Gollum's widely criticized character design. Unsurprisingly, this trilogy has been a huge source of memes from the start of the online age, even sparking a number of OG memes like One does not simply walk into Mordor. weird) viewers and fans to rule the pop culture industry for so long now.

LOTR, after reigning the world of memes for over two decades now, is still relevant, which takes some very funny and engrossed (a.k.a. The Lord of the Rings series has given birth to a rich tapestry of memes that captivate fans with their clever references and hilarious interpretations. Tolkien's epic novels or Peter Jackson's films, but through the lens of humor with these 25 hilarious LOTR memes. Prepare to enter Middle Earth, not through the pages of J.R.R.
