Movies & TV

I remember when nerds whined about Idris Elba playing Heimdall, because obviously an alien Norse god can't be black under some kind of logic. Also when g*mers whined about Tyrael being black in Diablo III and called him Tyrone. What I'm saying is that nerds were a mistake.

Why couldn't elves be black? aragorn is so racist he couldn't love a black lady? the light of the trees could easily explain blackness of elves, living under the literal sun on a tree, and cause they live so long, they are unlikely to whiten even after 5000 years away. although all high elves would have to be black, would be stellar

smh, fake fans. make sindorei or whatever those based dark forest elves outside of valinor whiteys, cause they haven't seen the light of the trees (there were some passage ascribing some negative quality to them, was it not?)

*also, also the real trvth nvke is that she watched him grow up, she is elvish bridgitte macron.

Go into most MTG forums and watch chuds bitch and moan in a thousand topics, a million times over about cards that are more than two years old now.

"DEI ARAGORN! WOKE WIZARDS OF THE COAST! THIS IS NOT ACCURATE TO THE BOOKS!"

It’s just not historically accurate to have black people walking around in Gondor.

it fucks me up how many people get upset about nonwhite people being cast as characters they expect(?) to be white, which is somehow more pronounced and embarrassing when it's in fantasy.

like, get a grip. it's fantasy. and of course if it's a nonwhite actor, it's political wokism and cynical marketing, but if it's a white actor it authentic, artistic, and real.

aside from how incurious and un self aware these critiques are, I just can't imagine caring so deeply about it that I would even think to bring it up, when there are so many other engaging critiques around media these days... like how much of it is endless retellings of pre-existing IP, how conflicts are always same same tropes, and how the arts suffer under the austerity of artistic education, since only the rich are allowed to pursue them, only the rich can fund them and only the rich can platform/distribute them.

but no, gotta hear from a guy in his mid 40s how the new little mermaid sux because she's doesn't look like some 3rd century Hibernian smoke show.

it's like basically a tantrum over no longer being the exclusive target demographic of media, but not being able to admit that the "classic" versions were similarly inauthentic either.

Honestly, it is predictable that the fash would stand up for the worst aspect of Tolkien's work. I have friends that were really turned off of Tolkien because of how, due to his own racism and Germanic literature tropes, all of the "good guys" were described as pale or fair skinned in the books, and the only POC were humans siding with Sauron.

Goes to show that D&D is the superior adaptation of the lotr material. The new movie, Justice Smith is an elf and I'm sure that mad fashy nerds mad.

Aragorn from 50 years ago:

Wood elves:

Dain Ironfoot by Ian Miller:

The Jackson films were a mistake.