Entertainment is a business. Nobody wants to make movies that only appeal to racists. There simply arent enough of them out there to be a significant audience.
LOTR is fantasy to start with. Getting bent out of shape over black hobbits is asinine.
Well, when I see movies with White Zulu warriors, I’ll ignore things like a Black Anne Boleyn. FWIW, I don’t care about black elves, but they shouldn’t look like Don Lemon. And they shouldn’t turn Galadriel into “GUY-Ladriel, Infallible Action Hero”.
Roger that. You want a diverse cast in a fantasy epic like this. Actually, so far the character actors and secondary roles are much more interesting than the leads. Better acted too. I think the hard core Tolkien fans are the ones most ticked over this. And most of the actual racists are so used to diverse casts they’ve resigned themselves not to let it get in the way of a good flick.
I forced myself to watch the second episode and it was better. But still I’d give it 6/10 only and half of that is for the CGI and cinematography. I’d give the GOT prequel 8.5 after last night.
Like any other created world it has lore. They are not following the lore.
If they want to create their own fantasy world and their own lore it is no big deal.
But you do not change someone else's lore.
If they want to create Karens of the Whiny Butts and have dancing blue dildos who communicate by squirting they are free to do so.
But if you are working inside the frame work someone else created, you follow their lore.
So... if someone takes Black Panther and makes him Asian only people who are racist will be upset?
How about we take Saladin and make him Christian?
In "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" Esmeralda is a french girl who is kidnapped by gypsies. How about we make her Eskimo?
After all, it is just fiction.
The lore matters.
Calling people who want a particular mythology to be true to its origins “racist” is childish and asinine. Your accusations are the product of a lifetime of brainwashing.