AndyDursin wrote: ↑Sun Jul 24, 2022 12:50 pm
Tolkien fans are SAVAGING this series already from the story/character alterations to the Woke (TM) component.
Mark my words -- this is going to get ripped apart worse than any of the worst DisneyStarWars+ saga entries.
Well those people criticizing it are of course "racist white men".
But seriously, if they want to create an "interracial" sword & sorcery franchise -- why don't they just write a new one? Don't appropriate the work of an author whose fictional world was based on British and Northen European lore. Moreover, don't brand admirers of that work "racist" for (rightly) objecting to a series that refuses to show fidelity to the author's world building.
And no, I don't have a problem with characters of different races in fantasy films -- this is one of the things that makes
Conan The Barbarian interesting. But
Conan takes place in an array of different lands -- Conan hails from the the North, is eventually brought to Asia to train as a swordsman, then later he and Subotai are thieves constantly on the move, Thulsa Doom combs the world for weapons of steel, etc. The interaction of different races in
Conan is a logical factor in a story whose characters are travelers. But no mention is made in any of Tolkien's work of their being Zulu, Vietnamese or Maori Hobbits. Moreover, even if there were, the sedentary nature of Hobbits would preclude any traveling or migration in the first place.
What rankles me most tho, is that this is not a Tolkien-inspired series. It is a
Peter Jackson-inspired series. It's not based on anything written by Tolkien. It merely regurgitates the style of the Jackson movies (which are now two decades old).