> I know it’s somewhat of a tired observation by now but I still wonder every time how badly you have to misread LOTR to name your company after the witch kings cursed surveillance artefacts.

Have you considered that it is not "misread", they just see themselves on Saruman side ?

"Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus"

It was a Mike Judge type joke, aka ha-ha only serious.

Not to be "that guy" but Anduril is Aragorn's sword and is the most good-guy good-thing that could ever be fantasized about. It's used to defeat Sauron. And the Palantir stones are not "the bad guys tool", they were made by the Elves in ancient history and a few of them wound up in the bad guys hands. Misread LOTR indeed!

I know it’s been said but Anduril is the sword wielded by Aragon, forged from the shards of Narsil which defeated Sauron.

And the Palantiri were artifacts given by the Elves to the greatest race of Men to govern their kingdom. No connection to the witch-king (except some post-Tolkien video game).

I don't think they misread it, I think they just liked sauron more than the good guys

> I wonder when the first weapons manufacturing company calls themselves Angmar or Uruk-hai.

Luckily/unluckily, AngMar is one of those shady medical subcontracting firms instead...