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re: First look at Galadriel in Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series
Posted on 2/10/22 at 12:30 pm to Bard
Posted on 2/10/22 at 12:30 pm to Bard
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Tolkien pulled dwarves from Nordic and Germanic folklore. Neither was known for racial diversity in their folklore.
No doubt, both of those were almost completely homogeneous. But not 100%. As far and wide as the Vikings traded and raided you don't think their gene pool expanded any?
The idea that one black Dwarf existing bothers so many people is confounding.
And like I said before, I agree that Hollywood has often gone too far to go out of their way to switch up races and genders on purpose for characters that weren't described as such and I think it's stupid.
This isn't one of those cases.
This post was edited on 2/10/22 at 12:33 pm
Posted on 2/10/22 at 12:34 pm to theGarnetWay
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No doubt, both of those were pretty homogeneous. But not completely. As far and wide as the Vikings traded and raided you don't think their gene pool expanded any?
So you are arguing that dwarves went out into this world, came across a tribe of black dwarves, mated with one, and then brought back this singular interracial dwarf to their land, and this is the character we are looking at?
Posted on 2/10/22 at 12:38 pm to theGarnetWay
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No doubt, both of those were almost completely homogeneous. But not 100%. As far and wide as the Vikings traded and raided you don't think their gene pool expanded any?
The idea that one black Dwarf existing bothers so many people is confounding.
I also can’t say with 100% certainty that the Millennium Falcon didn’t show up at the Battle of the Last Alliance and shoot down the Fell Beasts. Tolkien just forgot to mention that.
Do you not see how far you can go down this idiot rabbit hole? “Well he didn’t explicitly say that this didn’t happen.” Yeah, because he didn’t count on the world getting this insane that he’d have to clarify something every reader will innately understand.
This post was edited on 2/10/22 at 12:43 pm
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