>He says "The Rings of Power" producers have cast non-White actors in a story based on European culture and who look wildly different from how Tolkien originally described them. He says it's an attempt to embed "social justice politics" into Tolkien's world. "If you focus on introducing modern political sentiments, such as the leftist obsession with identity issues that only go skin deep, then you're no longer focusing on building a good story," says Morse, who wrote an impassioned essay about his misgivings. "You're effectively making propaganda, or art meant to fit a message, not a message to fit the art."
>Louis Markos, author of "From A to Z to Middle Earth with J.R.R. Tolkien," says casting Black and brown actors in "The Rings of Power" threatens story believability. He said Tolkien described elves, for example, as "fair-faced." Casting a non-White actor to play an elf makes it more difficult for audiences to maintain their willing suspension of belief, he says.
>"This is not something organic that's coming out of Middle-earth," Markos says of casting brown and Black actors in the show. "This is really an agenda that is being imposed upon it. If someone created a story about a great African kingdom of old, but one of the royals was White, people would naturally find this very out of place," Morse says. "This would especially be an issue if the story was previously established as all characters having black skin."
>Black >White >brown Lmao, how do they decide which ones to capitalize?
In any case, this is a surprisingly balanced view for a CNN article.
Zachary Morgan
Maybe we shouldn't have cancelled CNN+
William Gutierrez
>whine about le racism >it's a manufactured strawman to discredit any legit criticism. Every. Single. Time.
Ryder Collins
This. Just accept we are fixing things chuds. Stop complaining
The world is changing and media must reflect it
Thomas Baker
it's because they were scared that if they only had black hobbits, or asian dwarves, or whatever, everyone would be like "are you saying white people are elves while black people are simple merry folk and asians are STEM??". in any combination something like that could have happened. people would have looked for parallels between the tropes of middle earth and racial stereotypes. the safest thing was to make every single middle-earth species a mix.
Juan Flores
>story based on European culture
So Harad, Rhûn, Khand and Umbar are based on European Culture?
Jose Ramirez
just diseney using its money to shit on the competition >the safest thing was to make every single middle-earth species a mix. then why its just niggers and no other "minoirities"?
Isaac Ortiz
>Casting a non-White actor to play an elf makes it more difficult for audiences to maintain their willing suspension of belief, he says. a fucking eagles crashes and burns within the first 10 minutes
Nathan James
politics is not interesting. ftfy. only retarded virgins with no passion, no virtues, no values argue politics all day, and that goes for right and left. vote for the candidate you think is best and move the fuck on, no one wants to hear your retarded opinion on social media or at the family dinner, retard. go do literally anything else.
Andrew Cruz
>Harad, Rhûn, Khand and Umbar are based on European Culture?
They are based on Eastern archetypes seen through the prism of pre-industrial white European culture.
That doesn't make any fucking sense, elves, dwarves,hobbits in other settings already have their own sub-races, I don't know if this is the same for lotr,, thought unlikely since they were CREATED and didn't evolve so they would have no reason to look different but beside that, it makes 0 fucking sense to apply human-racial traits to races that already have their own specific ones.
Daniel Sanchez
Because black Americans are all that matter to sjw rhetoric. They’re at the top of the progressive stack. Bonus points for being a black troon (mtf) because no one cares about ftm (women), not even the lgbtqwop kek
Angel Allen
why do black humans exists?
Mason Thompson
They are from Africa.
Where are black Elves from?
Caleb Gray
did he watch it? elrond and arondir were fine. fucking idiot
