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Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Chukzombi
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Masakari
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LMFAO save me it.
However, the reveals have come with sadly predictable backlash from certain members of the community, as Vanity Fair’s new images showed that the Amazon series will include people of colour. Before we get any further, I want to make this clear: whether you’re trolling, gatekeeping, plain old racist, or all of the above, you have no place in this fandom.
It’s sadly not surprising that comments are usually rooted in misogyny, too; I’ve seen far more people complain about Sophia Nomvete’s dwarf princess Disa - the first Black dwarf in a Tolkien adaptation - than Córdova’s elf or Henry’s harfoot. As is so often the way with these things, racism and sexism go hand in hand, and the most marginalised people suffer for it.
A lot of the criticism about hiring non-white actors stems from the premise that Tolkien was trying to create a mythology for Britain. We return to the illuminating Letter 131, which Professor Tolkien wrote to Milton Waldman. In this, he describes his idea to create a legend for England and that Middle-earth is based on “the clime and soil of the North West, meaning Britain and the hither parts of Europe.” However, the assumption that all people in this region were white stems from 19th Century white nationalism in Germany, and later Nazi propaganda.
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However, the reveals have come with sadly predictable backlash from certain members of the community, as Vanity Fair’s new images showed that the Amazon series will include people of colour. Before we get any further, I want to make this clear: whether you’re trolling, gatekeeping, plain old racist, or all of the above, you have no place in this fandom.
It’s sadly not surprising that comments are usually rooted in misogyny, too; I’ve seen far more people complain about Sophia Nomvete’s dwarf princess Disa - the first Black dwarf in a Tolkien adaptation - than Córdova’s elf or Henry’s harfoot. As is so often the way with these things, racism and sexism go hand in hand, and the most marginalised people suffer for it.
A lot of the criticism about hiring non-white actors stems from the premise that Tolkien was trying to create a mythology for Britain. We return to the illuminating Letter 131, which Professor Tolkien wrote to Milton Waldman. In this, he describes his idea to create a legend for England and that Middle-earth is based on “the clime and soil of the North West, meaning Britain and the hither parts of Europe.” However, the assumption that all people in this region were white stems from 19th Century white nationalism in Germany, and later Nazi propaganda.
The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Has People Of Colour, Get Over It
Do you even Tolkien bro?
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Chukzombi
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did he just call Tolkien a nazi? let me get this straight, according to him, Tolkien is bad, his fans are bad and this queer is mad because he wants people to like a show based off Tolkien's work? maybe he should be mad at Amazon for paying a quarter billion to make this show? why didnt they pay 250m for a black based property about black legends and black mythology?LMFAO save me it.
However, the reveals have come with sadly predictable backlash from certain members of the community, as Vanity Fair’s new images showed that the Amazon series will include people of colour. Before we get any further, I want to make this clear: whether you’re trolling, gatekeeping, plain old racist, or all of the above, you have no place in this fandom.
It’s sadly not surprising that comments are usually rooted in misogyny, too; I’ve seen far more people complain about Sophia Nomvete’s dwarf princess Disa - the first Black dwarf in a Tolkien adaptation - than Córdova’s elf or Henry’s harfoot. As is so often the way with these things, racism and sexism go hand in hand, and the most marginalised people suffer for it.
A lot of the criticism about hiring non-white actors stems from the premise that Tolkien was trying to create a mythology for Britain. We return to the illuminating Letter 131, which Professor Tolkien wrote to Milton Waldman. In this, he describes his idea to create a legend for England and that Middle-earth is based on “the clime and soil of the North West, meaning Britain and the hither parts of Europe.” However, the assumption that all people in this region were white stems from 19th Century white nationalism in Germany, and later Nazi propaganda.
The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Has People Of Colour, Get Over It
Do you even Tolkien bro?
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Masakari
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They never make sense, they just change reality in their heads to justify anything. Even if self-contradictory.
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Chukzombi
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they always hijack once beloved IPs, they never make up their own new IPs. why dont they ever make a Kangz series of films? show off all their marvelous inventions and technological skills?
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Masakari
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Amazing they haven't turned off comments yet because someone's paying a botfarm to post negative comments on it, it's 3-4 of the same lines over and over. Not that they're wrong.
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Chukzombi
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2k likes to 2.3k dislikes. thats not good even for likes. they need a shitload more. i think Spidey no way home had like 75k likes in the first day the trailer got released. its up to 2.9 million. i dont think Lord of the Kangz is going to reach that. the original Fellowship of the Ring trailer posted on youtube 11 years ago has 23k likes. i doubt it even gets that.
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kroenen
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LMFAO save me it.
However, the reveals have come with sadly predictable backlash from certain members of the community, as Vanity Fair’s new images showed that the Amazon series will include people of colour. Before we get any further, I want to make this clear: whether you’re trolling, gatekeeping, plain old racist, or all of the above, you have no place in this fandom.
It’s sadly not surprising that comments are usually rooted in misogyny, too; I’ve seen far more people complain about Sophia Nomvete’s dwarf princess Disa - the first Black dwarf in a Tolkien adaptation - than Córdova’s elf or Henry’s harfoot. As is so often the way with these things, racism and sexism go hand in hand, and the most marginalised people suffer for it.
A lot of the criticism about hiring non-white actors stems from the premise that Tolkien was trying to create a mythology for Britain. We return to the illuminating Letter 131, which Professor Tolkien wrote to Milton Waldman. In this, he describes his idea to create a legend for England and that Middle-earth is based on “the clime and soil of the North West, meaning Britain and the hither parts of Europe.” However, the assumption that all people in this region were white stems from 19th Century white nationalism in Germany, and later Nazi propaganda.
The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Has People Of Colour, Get Over It
Do you even Tolkien bro?
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Loser Araysar
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Why would someone who lives perpetually underground be all black? Dwarves should be super pale.
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kroenen
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Maybe they used to be coal miners
Also, Tolkien wrote this about dwarfs.
"No Man nor Elf has ever seen a beardless Dwarf - unless he were shaven in mockery, and would then be more like to die of shame... For the Naugrim have beards from the beginning of their lives, male and female alike..."
So, a female dwarf without beard? Very odd considering this genderfluid nonsense they're pushing all the time. Probably the usual jogger pampering in play...
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Mahes
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Not just a female dwarf but a female dwarf princess. Royalty would be the very representation of their society. Her beard would be magnificent.Maybe they used to be coal miners
Also, Tolkien wrote this about dwarfs.
"No Man nor Elf has ever seen a beardless Dwarf - unless he were shaven in mockery, and would then be more like to die of shame... For the Naugrim have beards from the beginning of their lives, male and female alike..."
So, a female dwarf without beard? Very odd considering this genderfluid nonsense they're pushing all the time. Probably the usual jogger pampering in play...
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