re: Amazon put out a "superfans" video about LOTR: Rings of Power

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Either explain how it works or GTFO.

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Stop shoveling. You're only making the hole deeper.

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I dont Think you know.

Your just talking shite.

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No retort to mine?

Inspiration ISNT setting.

Tolkien removed his work from the SETTING of WWI by putting it in Middle Earth.

WWI influenced his writing but didn’t dictate what happened. WWI didn’t end when a short guy threw a ring into a mountain.

And you’re literally making an argument that black people ruin a WWI setting in a world we’re mythical races exist.

There weren’t any dwarves or elves in Middle earth.

It’s not a scene by scene remake of WWI.

And if it was it’s not set in WWI.
Mothered is no denying the influence. But saying they’re set in those worlds is wrong.

So the counter argument is:

If you can’t accept black people because they weren’t present in Europe during WWI (which isn’t actually true but whatever) how do you accept Elves and Dwarves and Hobbits and Magic?

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Inspiration ISNT setting.

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Yes it is. This is bullshite Shyamalan said when he made that abomination of a film in 2010.

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Tolkien removed his work from the SETTING of WWI by putting it in Middle Earth.

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Which is a prehistoric Europe, dumbass.

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WWI influenced his writing but didn’t dictate what happened. WWI didn’t end when a short guy threw a ring into a mountain.

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So unless it identically didn’t happen, then you should be able to add anything you want even if it’s against the creators intention and universe.

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And you’re literally making an argument that black people ruin a WWI setting in a world we’re mythical races exist.

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There weren’t any dwarves or elves in Middle earth.

It’s not a scene by scene remake of WWI.

And if it was it’s not set in WWI.

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Man, you are really, really stupid. My points over your head completely. Take your loss, dude. I’ll beat your feeble mind again. You’ve lost the argument.

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in a world we’re mythical races exist.

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In specific and established ways.

While he can Google it and I don’t believe him, I’m willing to bet this moron couldn’t tell me how many Rings of Power there are.

Sammy hasn't even seen the movie TOLKIEN, I'm guessing.

You’re argument has so many fricking holes.

A first you said it was set in WWI Europe. Then you said Middle Earth was Prehistoric Britain. You understand those are 2 different settings, right? Like WWI didn’t happen on prehistoric Britain.

So right there something is off.

Second the argument is that this is RUINED by black people being there. Which is just fricking assuming. First, that’s just a matter of opinion. You’re racist so I believe It’s ruined for you. But your attempt to justify it by continuing to claim LOTR is set in WWI.

But again, if your need to world to be realistic to WWI why don’t the elves bother you? Why don’t the dwarves? You can accept those because they’re there, but black people would ruin it? Why?

Tolkien even said the sorry isn’t allegorical in his forward to the second edition

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As for any inner meaning or 'message', it has in the intention of the author none. It is neither allegorical nor topical. As the story grew it put down roots (into the past) and threw out unexpected branches: but its main theme was settled from the outset by the inevitable choice of the Ring as the link between it and The Hobbit.

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He also pointed out the difference between tear in the LOTR and real war

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The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion. If it had inspired or directed the development of the legend, then certainly the Ring would have been seized and used against Sauron; he would not have been annihilated but enslaved, and Barad-dûr would not have been destroyed but occupied.

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You’re argument has so many fricking holes. A first you said it was set in WWI Europe. Then you said Middle Earth was Prehistoric Britain. You understand those are 2 different settings, right? Like WWI didn’t happen on prehistoric Britain. So right there something is off. Second the argument is that this is RUINED by black people being there. Which is just fricking assuming. First, that’s just a matter of opinion. You’re racist so I believe It’s ruined for you. But your attempt to justify it by continuing to claim LOTR is set in WWI. But again, if your need to world to be realistic to WWI why don’t the elves bother you? Why don’t the dwarves? You can accept those because they’re there, but black people would ruin it? Why?

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You lied about literally every thing you said here. Impressive

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You’re racist

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Ah there it is. I provided a fantasy series that was appropriately cast being released around the same time of LotR with a similar budget and themes only from a different region and said that I’d be appalled if someone like myself was cast because I don’t sync in with the universe, but I’m still a racist. Go frick yourself mouth breather.

You’ve lost this. I know you thinking labeling anyone as an -ist or -phobe makes you automatically win the argument, but it doesn’t. You’re a room temperature IQ simpleton who should return his parent’s basement. You’re an idiot clown and keep just digging yourself deeper. No point in further engaging with you. You lost the argument.