It shouldn't be an issue. There is a reality that exists underneath the mass movement of "anti-wokeness" that undermines every single one of their arguments. Being woke means to be aware of things around you and not ignorant. So that's a BAD thing? Being aware of your world is a bad thing? I don't get it.
Now, obviously both sides of a political specturm can go extreme and take things too far. Both Left and Right have shown the ability to go extreme and really move beyond reason and fairness.
But in this case you have what I see as sort of a reverse-racism where a good number of people in the world, even in 2022 are uncomfortable seeing black coaches leading a football team of partially white players. Or a black CEO outranking his white colleagues. Or a black movie director with white employees working under him. If people think that those things don't still really bother A LOT of people, then you're very naive.
And the same goes for LOTR and ROP. Many fans of Jackson's movies forget that Jackson used people of color in some of his background shots of Minith Tirith and Laketown. I don't see hundreds of thousands of Tolkien fans rising up and proclaiming that Jackson's fllms are "woke."
As far as their actually being black characters in ROP - Is it not possible that an elf and a person from a southern region somehow had offspring? Is it not possible for the same thing to happen with the dwarves? Or the Harfoots?
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