Preemptively gathering all the people in my life, locking them in one room and bringing out my 300 slide 6 hour presentation explaining everything that happened in the Silmerillion, in order to prevent them from asking me constant inane questions when one of them decides to watch this show.
I think the people in my life would better understand (or rather, would be more willing to understand) the Silmarillion than they would me explaining to them how evil the US was in post-WWII Korea up through the Korean War.
Preemptively gathering all the people in my life, locking them in one room and bringing out my 300 slide 6 hour presentation explaining everything that happened in the Silmerillion, in order to prevent them from asking me constant inane questions when one of them decides to watch this show.
I think the people in my life would better understand (or rather, would be more willing to understand) the Silmarillion than they would me explaining to them how evil the US was in post-WWII Korea up through the Korean War.