It's a hobbit portrayed by a black actor. It's not an african american hobbit. i understand the casting indicates that the show may have a certain political/cultural disposition that most on here (including myself) don't want to see shoved into Tolkien's work, but i feel like most people bitching about the casting think that the black actors are going to portray some ghetto version of an elf or a hobbit or whatever, which is clearly not the case.
Cr. Why is it blacks and not, say, Asians? Because it is an American-made show, and negro worship is America's state religion. But Middle-earth has nothing to do with the United States and should not display American influence.
Date: July 14th, 2022 5:43 PM Author: talented garrison
TBF, people don’t want Asians or any other non white person in this shit either. People are pissed at all the Asians and Hispanics in that new GoT show.
I said "historical England." E.g. Rohan is based off of Anglo-Saxon England.
Sure, maybe there were a tiny number of non-whites in medieval England. But what percentage were non-white? And what percentage of the cast of this show is non-white?
Just give me a show created by people who know Tolkien's work inside and out and want to make something in that spirit. My only hope is that Tokien's estate is so fucking picky about how his IP is portrayed that they'll clamp down on anything that is too far afield from the text.
Date: July 14th, 2022 4:09 PM Author: aquamarine histrionic milk
Yeah, this is the thing. I don't mind black actors, etc. But I think forcing modern "sensibilities" on this stuff is what will ruin it. You could see it turn in GoT as soon as they had to work without the books to guide them.
Well, we have actual text all the way through here (even if it's not in the format of a linear novel) and we have an estate that is incredibly protective of the IP. HBO was running completely off book and seemed to have total freedom to do whatever the fuck they wanted.
That being said, I have a bad feeling about this show.
Date: July 14th, 2022 4:20 PM Author: ultramarine bat shit crazy gas station halford
When has an estate ever done anything like this? Even if they somehow negotiated this against Amazon, how could they possibly keep shooting down the 100’s of “Then the Bad Ass Elf Girl does THIS!!!” suggestions they would get every day?
The estate doles out very specific pieces of his work and is incredibly protective about how its portrayed. You know how obsessive Christopher Tolkien was with his dad's work, right? And he ran all of the IP stuff to make sure no one bastardized his dad's work. He's dead now but only just recently and his wife and son run it just as tightly as he did.
Date: July 14th, 2022 4:25 PM Author: Pearl home national security agency
There is some uncanny valley shit going on here. Everyone looks like a cosplayer. All the environments and costumes are too perfect, none of it looks real or lived in. Everyone in this universe is constantly running around with perfect hair and makeup and spotless clothing.
Date: July 14th, 2022 5:40 PM Author: talented garrison
The diversity isn’t the problem. It’s the boring and cheap looking effects, the SPS story, poor acting, and the constant nostalgia these awful franchises always do.
Date: July 14th, 2022 10:53 PM Author: Erotic sick juggernaut
"Hardly anyone grasps how deeply conservative J.R.R. Tolkien was. At some point, woke folk will realize this. All over Silicon Valley, there will have to be ritual burnings of The Lord of the Rings:"
Date: July 14th, 2022 11:44 PM Author: Erotic sick juggernaut
This is a common lib tactic, which actually becomes comical when you stop to think about it: this person liked non-whites, so therefore he would naturally be happy to see white Christian civilization destroyed, because...?
Date: July 14th, 2022 11:51 PM Author: Erotic sick juggernaut
One more funny thing, for anyone reading, is that Tolkien (who this Indian man is trying to portray as a globalist lib progressive - no ulterior motive to claim this for a foreign interloper in the West, naturally), in a letter to his son during the war, expressed his fear of "American cosmopolitanism" winning WW2 - precisely because of what that result had in store for the future of Western Civilization.
Date: July 15th, 2022 5:33 PM Author: Erotic sick juggernaut
“I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery.”
Date: July 15th, 2022 5:34 PM Author: Erotic sick juggernaut
“Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes of our own period. And that means the old books.… The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.”
Date: July 16th, 2022 5:21 PM Author: Erotic sick juggernaut
“the spirit of wickedness in high places is now so powerful and many-headed in its incarnations that there seems nothing more to do than personally refuse to worship any of the hydras' heads.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
Date: July 17th, 2022 12:42 AM Author: Erotic sick juggernaut
Another thing the demons will attempt to obscure: Tolkien's good friend C.S. Lewis, fellow Christendom superfan, lamented, in The Discarded Image, the modern trend of dressing up "Hottentots" in European attire, and pretending that they are therefore magically European ("competitive make-believe," as a wise XO poaster said).
Date: July 17th, 2022 1:16 AM Author: Erotic sick juggernaut
"The ideal embodied in Launcelot is "escapism" in a sense never dreamed of by those who use that word; Chivalry offers the only possible escape from a world divided between wolves who do not understand, and sheep who cannot defend, the things which make life desirable..."