Even if we ignore the retarded race fuckery... Just look at the designs around the black woman. Her clothes, the carved designs in the background at the top.
It looks like a completely different story, it's almost futuristic. To me it looks more... sci-fi, almost like Star Gate or something.
We have seen a lot of different places and people in The Hobbit and LOTR and while they all had their own identities; they looked like parts of the same story.
This... it's just wrong. Like does she look like part of the same greater culture as Durin next to her? Can you imagine them in the same room?
Hell, elves and dwarves in LOTR looked like they belonged together, even if they were cultures at odds with each other. But this is just not good design.
They will try to say it doesn't affect the story, but I've seen The Witcher and it definitely does affect the story.
This is no different from throwing a white king in a period piece on Zulu warriors or some shit. "Oh but he's a great actor" does not get the job done.
Exactly. Although I think a Blazing Saddles type movie where an orphaned white baby is raised by a Zulu-like tribe and becomes leader could be pretty funny
Exodus: Gods and Kings would arguably like a word… 😑
Though clearly Egyptians were not black, it’s still a very… 1960s Hollywood way of doing it…
I can, no joke, see 1950s/60s era Hollywood casting Yul Brynner as a Zulu kang, in vague brownface… It’s sort of just what they did. And some of the movies are still fantastic, nonetheless, lol…
What happens when you take the grand unifying design of a man, painstakingly crafted over a lifetime, from overarching themes to linguistic minutia, built from the ground up to create a national mythos for the peoples of England, then hand it over to a patchwork of diverse voices and perspectives with conflicting visions for how things should be and who they should represent?
You end up with a god damn mess. The greatness of LOTR has been pulled from its heights, like a great eagle snatched mid-flight and pulled down into a quagmire of mediocrity by the nameless things below.
Nazgul would have attacked them with Fellbeasts. While the Great Eagles can fight in the air, they very likely can't fight [well] in the air while carrying anyone.
The ringwraiths and sauron may have been able to stop them and perhaps flying the eagles to mordor would have been closer to delivering the ring on a silver platter.
the eagles themselves are not animals, they are servants of a god. interfering in middle earth isn't their purpose. Only after their destruction of smaug were they sent to the lonely mountain. Only after the destruction of the ring did they appear at mt doom to save Frodo and Sam.
Ironically all LOTR Dwarves are meant to have beards so Amazon actually missed out on casting a blatant dude in a dress as the Kween with a full on beard, not even the retarded 5 o'clock shadow shit most Twitter Troons make no effort over.
I find it quite odd. They acknowledge that the elf is completely made up just for the series but they do not add a note that the strong black womxn is also completely made up just for the series. I wonder why that is.
shes gollums ex lover. she drove him crazy and after taking all his money and time he decided to chase after the ring, because she wasnt his precious anymore
No fucking way. I swear I thought this was a really well done meme.
Instead of pulling a Witcher and randomly allocating black people everywhere, why not invent a plausible situation, like a foreign race of humans from a desert land?
Make them a tribe or civilization of their own. That way it doesn’t look fucking ridiculous.
Even if we ignore the retarded race fuckery... Just look at the designs around the black woman. Her clothes, the carved designs in the background at the top.
It looks like a completely different story, it's almost futuristic. To me it looks more... sci-fi, almost like Star Gate or something.
We have seen a lot of different places and people in The Hobbit and LOTR and while they all had their own identities; they looked like parts of the same story.
This... it's just wrong. Like does she look like part of the same greater culture as Durin next to her? Can you imagine them in the same room?
Hell, elves and dwarves in LOTR looked like they belonged together, even if they were cultures at odds with each other. But this is just not good design.
We wuz Wakanda, n' shiet.
Movies/TV in the USSR were not very good either, with certain notable exceptions like The Battleship Potemkin.
Some early Soviet sci fi was really fucking good, though…
Aelita: Empress of Mars (yes, really), was incredibly weird, and overly long, but really bloody good, and that was a silent film from the early 1920s…
It managed to mock party officials, too, which is probably quite unusual… I can’t imagine that happened much in later Soviet films!
I mean when I first saw the design above her I immediately thought "penis superman". Definitely a different spin on lord of the rings.
The ring is a prince albert?
And the role of gollum is played by kat williams, for obvious reasons.
the elf on the right... he looks like hes in search of frodos cock
They will try to say it doesn't affect the story, but I've seen The Witcher and it definitely does affect the story.
This is no different from throwing a white king in a period piece on Zulu warriors or some shit. "Oh but he's a great actor" does not get the job done.
The show is over for me. I thought Cavill could salvage it on his own but it’s just too distracting.
Exactly. Although I think a Blazing Saddles type movie where an orphaned white baby is raised by a Zulu-like tribe and becomes leader could be pretty funny
So… Dances with Wolves/Last of the Mohicans, but in Africa..? 🤔
Something like that. I think it could be funny. But couldn’t be made now. Heck I doubt The Gods Must Be Crazy would be made today.
It killed the Witcher for me even though I felt Geralt, Dandelion, and even Ciri to some extent were well cast.
Exodus: Gods and Kings would arguably like a word… 😑
Though clearly Egyptians were not black, it’s still a very… 1960s Hollywood way of doing it…
I can, no joke, see 1950s/60s era Hollywood casting Yul Brynner as a Zulu kang, in vague brownface… It’s sort of just what they did. And some of the movies are still fantastic, nonetheless, lol…
You aren't referring to the relatively recent film starring Christan Bale as Mozes? If there's an older one I should watch it.
What happens when you take the grand unifying design of a man, painstakingly crafted over a lifetime, from overarching themes to linguistic minutia, built from the ground up to create a national mythos for the peoples of England, then hand it over to a patchwork of diverse voices and perspectives with conflicting visions for how things should be and who they should represent?
You end up with a god damn mess. The greatness of LOTR has been pulled from its heights, like a great eagle snatched mid-flight and pulled down into a quagmire of mediocrity by the nameless things below.
Thanks, Amazon. I hate it.
Nazgul would have attacked them with Fellbeasts. While the Great Eagles can fight in the air, they very likely can't fight [well] in the air while carrying anyone.
This video does a good job explaining why.
Monstrous bat creatures
It would ruin the story
The ringwraiths and sauron may have been able to stop them and perhaps flying the eagles to mordor would have been closer to delivering the ring on a silver platter.
the eagles themselves are not animals, they are servants of a god. interfering in middle earth isn't their purpose. Only after their destruction of smaug were they sent to the lonely mountain. Only after the destruction of the ring did they appear at mt doom to save Frodo and Sam.
Ironically all LOTR Dwarves are meant to have beards so Amazon actually missed out on casting a blatant dude in a dress as the Kween with a full on beard, not even the retarded 5 o'clock shadow shit most Twitter Troons make no effort over.
But the 'dudes in dresses' insist that they are women and that everyone sees them as women.
For them to be indistinguishable from the dwarven men, as indeed mentally ill, gender-confused men are from other men, would be a huge own goal.
They were all too busy using their hands to talk at people like that hissing faggot on Dr. Phil.
I'm shocked, shocked.
I find it quite odd. They acknowledge that the elf is completely made up just for the series but they do not add a note that the strong black womxn is also completely made up just for the series. I wonder why that is.
shes gollums ex lover. she drove him crazy and after taking all his money and time he decided to chase after the ring, because she wasnt his precious anymore
Silvans...are supposed to be red-haired. So...another victim of the nigrafacation ray.
They’re also supposed to be wood elves. I don’t see a lot of black people camping or hiking.
Pygmies.
Rofl.
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As I mentioned on the previous post, they need to go full on feminism, gay, racism and all the fun stuff.
There was a reason I had no interest in this show. I recently read the books so I’m good.
If anything shit television has caused me to resd more books. Thanks I guess.
Same here. Or when I hear a show or movie is adapting a book I’ll read the book. That’s how I read wheel of time
Welp, looks Middurth is fucked then, because no one would bother resisting the temptation of those wangz.
The entire LotR trilogy cost 281M.
But how many diversity consultants did they hire??
If it didn't have the captions I'd maybe guess the 1st picture was a dwarf.
No fucking way. I swear I thought this was a really well done meme.
Instead of pulling a Witcher and randomly allocating black people everywhere, why not invent a plausible situation, like a foreign race of humans from a desert land?
Make them a tribe or civilization of their own. That way it doesn’t look fucking ridiculous.
I can't wait for this to be pirated, and seeded, but never actually watched. By someone else of course...
spiteseeding.
Can't believe they made an Orc series.