Amazon drops main trailer for Rings of Power
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Worst thing is that there are genuine opportunities for 'representation' that would've made sense in-universe. Middle-earth isn't just Gondor/Arnor/Rohan/Mordor/Isengard after all. And in the Second Age? Fuck, we could've had a show set in Rhun, starring Jet Li or whoever as the Easterling king who would become Khamul (second-in-command of the Nazgul behind the Witch-King). Show us his struggles with his court & family full of characters played by other Asian actors as they argue for or against accepting the second of the Nine Rings delivered by Sauron, the internal conflict between his ambition and his sense of honor and how the former ultimately trumps the latter, the wars that may have driven him to take the Ring in hopes of using its power to protect his people only for it to ultimately hollow out & enslave him (as the One would have done to Boromir), etc.
Or if the Asians count as white today and you gotta have an all-black cast instead, it'd have been as simple as setting the show in Harad.
But no, Amazon had to shove the diversity into the places where it'd make the least possible sense and stick out the most. I've gotten to the point where I have to think this is deliberate, done on purpose to spite Tolkien's memory and fans, because it would have been as easy as visiting the Tolkien Gateway or any of the other LOTR Wikis (not even cracking open the books) to start figuring this stuff out.
And that’s the problem. These people buy these IPs and don’t care about lore and don’t bother studying. Like you said there was a way to put in the diversity they want
It is. We've already seen from WoT that their gay idea of "representation" is fake too. They don't care about having diverse minorities in contextually logical situations. What they want is to completely destroy White European literature. What they want is to push a globohomo world view where every scene is either mixed or majority BIPOC to normalize the idea that we'll all live in the same rainbow cities - food courts of culture where every day just walking down the street is an adventure and you never know who will rip you off or try to stab you that day. Everyone must become rootless, interchangeable cogs to easily be manipulated by the elites. This isn't a vast conspiracy by the producers, they are themselves cogs who have been turned into vectors of the mind virus of woke that controls all institutions.