They should've made each race a different ethnicity. The humans white, the elves asian, the dwarves black, etc. It would've made more sense.
shareThat would actually work well. However the tenderhearted casting departments could not handle the cries of racism for casting all minorities as non-human
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That would be getting into Ring of Power territory where all the Dwarfs are Scottish, and the Hobbits are all Irish leprechauns. It's kinda insulting.
The best way to do diversity, is good writing, and a good story.
Neither Rings of Power nor Witcher had it. They focused more on the politics of the casting choices rather than the writing.
The solution would be to not cast non-whites in white-based fantasy stories, and to instead cast them in stories based on their respective cultures and mythologies, but Hollywood refuses to do that for some reason. They’re all about diversity, yet they seem terrified to touch anything that wasn’t made by white people.
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