For weeks celebrities had nothing better to do than talk about the quality of the show or discuss the series. But finally someone with courage addresses the elephant in the room!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11191837/Original-Lord-Rings-stars-Elijah-Wood-Sean-Astin-shut-racist-trolls.html
Racism would be people insulting the actors based on their race or calling them slurs for accepting a role in the show.
Racism is not "Elves and Dwarves weren't black".
Is there any proof of the former occurring?
They said "brought some racist trolls out of the woodwork"
That's proof enough for me.
Tolkien's Elves and Dwarves were NEVER black, why should they be black now?
Lack of creativity is part of the problem, these writers and showrunners just can't be bothered CREATING a new IP, they always want to leech off of existing ones, but they also want to cater to the new demographics, and this is where the thorny issue of "diversity in existing characters and species when little or none existed before" rears its ugly head.
Aside from that, the writing is bloody awful in this show.
Dumbasses are trying to twist themselves into knots to come up with any sort of explanation for why Elves could be black. I've even seen them resort to saying "he called them fair, that doesn't necessarily mean fair skinned". And I guarantee these are the same people who used to call Tolkien a white supremacist and that orcs were stand ins for black people.
They also excuse the black Hobbits by saying "he called them browner of skin", completely ignoring every European ethnicity who are browner of skin than the average English person.
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Sam and Frodo need to go back to their implied homo relationship and stfu
shareThe cast of the new GoT show is diverse too and the reviews are positive.
Maybe Rings of Power is just terrible?