phisey
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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?www.thegamer.com
That guy's a fucking moron. We're talking about an author who went ballistic when his own hand-picked Dutch translator proposed to use Dutch names for his translation.
He's projecting his own hipster cosmopolitanism to an author and a work he profoundly misunderstands. Tolkien would've thrown every cent back at Amazon and gone to every court he could to avert this abomination.
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