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no one, because that's not the fricking point. No one likes their favourite stories getting shitted up with clumsy political preaching. That's not the same as 'I h8 blacks'
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Speak for yourself
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Iโm just mad the dwarves donโt have beards.
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Isn't this a whole new original story and nothing from Tolkien? Just his setting?
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I thought this was supposed to be tolkiens second age stories, ie, the rise and fall of numenor, aldarion and erendis, of the rings of power.
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Idk I never got into Tolkien. I read a ton of fantasy before him and his was sorta blah. Too much singing and shit.
Btw no one bitched that LOTR wasn't a musical did they?
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tolkien nerds do complain about the lotr movie trilogy but there are better topics to complain about (like saruman being shitty) than lack of songs, which is really understandable for the movie format.
Read the Silmarillion btw its good
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Nah I'm good
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Yeah where the frick was Tom bombadil? He needs his own movie
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Ye
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Then what's the big deal? This isn't like the wheel of time adaption they fricked up horribly. Race swaps in that made no sense let alone changing everything about the story and also making it darker. Bitching about this whole new property does seem to be racist..
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Mostly because no group is described as black/dark skinned except some group of elves, apparently, and this therefor emailed it immediately unfaithful to them
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It's actually the exact opposite. Middle Earth has entire nations and cultures of non-mayos and they even have their own epics including having to deal with Sauron's bullshit. Tolkien never went too deep into that part of Middle Earth but the framework is all there. That's why a lot of fans are confused by this. Why not tell thier stories instead of just sticking a black guy in an elf outfit and calling it a day.
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It's weird because their are non-mayos in Tolkien's work. So just making some characters non-mayo just for the sake of it feels weird and forced.
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Yeah and the non mayos are all bad too
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Not all of them, especially not early on. I believe that during the age they're covering right now not only are they not aligned with Sauron parts of Harad (non-mayo land) is literally a vassaled to Gondor. They could have had black nobility in the show and it would have been completely cannon. But for some reason they decided not to.
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Basically, Tolkien wrote broad strokes about the Second Age, but very little narrative, so it's like a history book. We know the events and nations involved, but no details, so they're making up characters that will supposedly follow this story and move it along.
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Wait, the fat black chick is a dwarf. How the frick can people tell that's a dwarf.
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