Yeah sure whatever. The RoP is still bullshit just because they are doing stuff outside the scope of what is included in the rights they purchased. Apart from just ruining the character of Galadriel.
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I always struggle when crappy shows and movies get dogpiled by bigots. Like, the bigots are wrong because they are bigots, but is that really the hill we need to defend? Yes, because otherwise the bigots rewrite the narrative to say that their hatred and ignorance is why the product was bad. They'll blame DEI or woke or affirmative action or whatever the Nazis are demonizing these days. But then I feel the need to trash the show for actual reasons it sucks unrelated to racism or sexism or homophobia or general intolerance. And then it feels like I'm rowing in the same direction as the bigots.
So I dunno.
The show is poorly written and has lots of other problems besides, but Galadriel was pretty headstrong and adventurous in her "younger" years and so it's not unreasonable. Honestly I think her character was one of the better parts of a pretty mediocre adaptation.
The costumes were pretty great, though. The scene in S2 where they sing to the stone to open up new tunnels was also a good extrapolation.
The real issue is not the existence of darker skinned dwarves.
The issue is beardless dwarves.
There is no canon reason why Tolkien's dwarves couldn't all be bearded like Pratchett's dwarfs, and thus it must be.
This is my hill and I will die on it
Was my issue as well
Does Carrot have a beard though?
Him being adopted doesn't mean he isn't an exemplary dwarf.
Carrot left the mines at 16, when he couldn't grow much of a beard. His early days on the watch with Colin the Traditionalist would have required being clean shaven. By the time Cuddy joined Carrot likely was set and comfortable being clean shaven. As to why he continues to shave, you'd have to ask him (or possibly Angua)
However! That doesn't make him D'rzka any more than being human by birth would. He can properly ha'lk his g'rakha, and is, in every way that matters, a dwarf.
(Ask me more about the discworld) ^•^
Tolkien went back and forth on this, as he did with many things
Lord of the Rings, Appendix A: Durin's Folk
[Female dwarves are] in voice and appearance, and in garb if they must go on a journey, so like to the dwarf-men that the eyes and ears of other peoples cannot tell them apart.
(Yes yes, JRRT waffled on this. But come on! This is good lore, let's keep it)
Old article and I'm not convinced. Everyone should be white just like everybody imagined they would be when reading the books. /s
i need REALISM in my SCI-FI FANTASY!!1
I still think that it's a unnecessary decision, but I don't need to go apeshot on Reddit about it. If I think it's dumb, then it's just not for me. But if the show would have looked interesting then I would have watched it still; like with the first Witcher season, regardless of the whack casting.
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