Don't make me go through my rant on how diverse the Second Age of Middle-Earth should be, and how little we know about the seven tribes of the dwarves, because if you're assuming that anyone who gets cast in this show without being lily white is just being cast for woke points then you aren't worth talking to.
The second sentence - after "because" - is a non sequitur to the first.
But we can see that minorities are being cast for woke points because of
how they are cast, and how they are marketed. If you think it's just random chance, then you're an imbecile - and not worth talking to. They have even stated it up front, FFS: "It felt only natural to us that an adaptation of [author J.R.R.] Tolkien's work would reflect what the world actually looks like."
There
are different ethnicities in Middle Earth, but mostly in homogenuous pockets - not integrated, as in modern Western society.
Why aren't you assuming that they were the best actor for the job first?
Because casting calls are based first and foremost on looks.
Why the hell are you assuming that a white actor would do a better job?
Why the hell are you assuming that I have assumed as much?
Although if they did cast a few black elves just to keep the racists out of the fandom, then fine. They're not welcome.
Tolkien's works remain unimpeached. The fan base remains the same. That
you are upset that people don't like to be preached at, reflects solely on you. Calling people racist when they have neither said nor done anything remotely racist, tells me you must be pretty butthurt. Are there racists out there who complain because they don't want to see black people on screen? Sure, but that doesn't mean there aren't
valid criticisms of the casting decisions all the same. When a diverse cast takes priority over story, it is well worth criticism.
What Tolkien fans want is an adaptation which is about Middle Earth - they don't want an adaptation which is about a message of diversity, which merely uses Middle Earth as a backdrop. This is no less true if you agree with the message, like I already do. Just don't fucking preach to me, it's not much to ask.
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Otter (24464)
2 years ago
So, Prof. Tolkien writes a saga of people of all nations and species coming together in a just cause, and learning to forget their differences, value the strengths of people unlike themselves, and act together for the greater good. And people like you look at that beautiful story, and all you see in this saga about the value of harmony, humility, cooperation, diversity, and forgiveness is "WHITE POWER"!!!@
Don't bother to respond. I won't hold the kind of debate you want, because you aren't worth my time. Just get the fuck out of the fandom.
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Karl Aksel (1451)
2 years ago
So, Prof. Tolkien writes a saga of people of all nations and species coming together in a just cause, and learning to forget their differences, value the strengths of people unlike themselves, and act together for the greater good. And people like you look at that beautiful story, and all you see in this saga about the value of harmony, humility, cooperation, diversity, and forgiveness is "WHITE POWER"!!!@
God, you're such a moron. There is absolutely nothing I said which should allow you to draw such a conclusion in the slightest. I don't know what your malfunction is, if you're just a beliggerent asshole or a self-righteous prick. But you kind of defeated yourself in the very first thing you said:
Yes, Tolkien wrote a saga about people COMING TOGETHER. Which means they WEREn't together to BEGIN WITH. How can there be a coming together if they were already together? In order to FORGET their differences, they must necessarily come from a place of being ACUTELY AWARE of them.
YOU get out of the fandom. You were never a fan. You just kind of liked the set pieces.
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Otter (24464)
2 years ago
You dismissed every single actor of color in this as a diversity hire and not a talent, which FYI does mark you as a racist, and unworthy of membership in the fandom or the attention of decent people.
Go rethink everything you ever believed.
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Karl Aksel (1451)
2 years ago
You dismissed every single actor of color in this as a diversity hire and not a talent
That would include the white actors too, wise guy. Besides, they have
admitted as much, numbnuts.
which FYI does mark you as a racist
How does that follow? If they hire for diversity rather than talent, how is it racist to point it out? That doesn't even begin to make sense. Even if I were wrong on this point (which I demonstrably am not), then that would only make me wrong, not racist. Do you even know what the word means?
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