Lord of the Rings Series -- Amazon

Taurus said

I don't give a flying fart if there's a black actor playing an elf. What I would like to know, however, is if he's playing a white elf or if he looks to the other characters the same way he looks to the audience.

Like, in the olden days all the actors were men, so female parts were played by a guy. The other characters, however, saw a woman. They played their parts as if the dude playing Lady MacBeth or Juliette was a female. The audience sees a man while the characters see a woman.

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It's just a thing that appears to be purposely injected by the writers to serve as a distraction and a buffer against criticism.

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You are of course correct, but you are trying way too hard to give Amazon a way out here.

This is not the London Globe theatre in 1606, and this is not a high school play when the talent pool is limited. Amazon has a billion-dollar budget, and thousands of actors to chose from, yet went out of its way to show us black elves, because they wanted to show us Wokien instead of Tolkien. It's not the main reason that the show stunk, but it shows that they were not trying.

Humans started black and some turned white because of evolution over a thousand generations. Same as the various human races in Tolkien (Numenoreans were specially granted great strength and height, another detail Amazon neglected.) Tolkien's elves are immortal and rarely reproduce, they do not evolve!

Tolkien meant this to be an Anglo-Saxon origin myth! Do we want a Roots remake with some Chinese actors sprinkled in?

I realize that the 8th circle of the Inferno is for people who argue about racist elves on the internet, but hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders.