It is much easier to accuse the fandom of shallow racism than actually trying to understand their criticisms. Since The Rings of Power was announced, there has been much speculation as to how the series would handle portraying Middle Earth’s past since Amazon only has the rights to a very narrow portion of the timeline. In one sense, this has given the filmmakers a large amount of “creative freedom” to explore a relatively unknown era in the franchise. However, the creativity espoused by the filmmakers has been rubbing some Lord of the Rings fans the wrong way. One of the
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Lord Bezos’ Bane – The Rings of Power [REVIEW]
The long-awaited Rings of Power series has reintroduced Middle Earth to the screen. However, the online community’s chaos and viciousness stiffened much of the momentum the show was aiming for.
Diversity in Fantasy – Why Race Truly Doesn’t Matter in Fairy Tales
The driving force of our argument is that fairy tales don’t lend themselves to the same standards of consistency as semi-historical works or even high fantasy. That is, fairy tales have no lore.