You say you try not to get hung up on race but you have posted on at least 2 boards about how Jordan claims two rivers folk are darker. Knowing full well they are not black. Yet anytime someone mentions this you come in and try to defend it by saying Jordan said they were darker. Are you being paid to do this? It's clear that they strayed from the story to make a diverse cast but you always come in with the pretense that its was alluded to in the story,which it was not. Why have you started this same thread over and over again? Agenda much? You already started this thread a month ago why not post in it? This casting is a clear case of forced diversity and you start threads just to try to defend it. It's getting old.

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Posted by Green Chili Tiger

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Posted on 9/5/19 at 10:22 pm to AtticusOSullivan

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It's clear that they strayed from the story to make a diverse cast but you always come in with the pretense that its was alluded to in the story,which it was not.

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Elaida had put down her knitting, Rand realized, and was studying him. She rose from her stool and slowly came down from the dais to stand before him. “From the Two Rivers?” she said. She reached a hand towards his head; he pulled away from her touch, and she let her hand drop. “With that red in his hair, and gray eyes? Two Rivers people are dark of hair and eye, and they seldom have such height.” Her hand darted out to push back his coat sleeve, exposing lighter skin the sun had not reached so often. “Or such skin.”

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And among them stood others, men with coppery skins, men with transparent veils across the lower half of their faces, fair-skinned men who just did not have the look of the Two Rivers.

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Posted by Fun Bunch

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Posted on 9/6/19 at 9:34 am to AtticusOSullivan

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You say you try not to get hung up on race but you have posted on at least 2 boards about how Jordan claims two rivers folk are darker. Knowing full well they are not black. Yet anytime someone mentions this you come in and try to defend it by saying Jordan said they were darker. Are you being paid to do this? It's clear that they strayed from the story to make a diverse cast but you always come in with the pretense that its was alluded to in the story,which it was not. Why have you started this same thread over and over again? Agenda much? You already started this thread a month ago why not post in it? This casting is a clear case of forced diversity and you start threads just to try to defend it. It's getting old.

You are a very strange guy that is either just trolling or doesn't know how to read.

This is a thread about the casting of Lan.

The Two Rivers folk are mentioned as darker SEVERAL times. I've also said, REPEATEDLY, that on the flipside, Jordan clearly meant Greek/Mediteranean complexion, not black. I've read these novels dozens of times over the past 25+ years. I do know them pretty well.

The point is that one could take the "darker" complexion and interpret it the way the filmmaker does. He isn't right though. They aren't "black" in the novels like Tuon or the Sea Folk are.

I've also said I really don't care, as its not a big deal.

The only race that matters in the novels to any significant degree is the Aiel.

The fact that you are getting bent out of shape about it is pretty bizarre though.

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