Comments by "Kantrel 7" (@blumiu2426) on "A War Between Media and Fans - The Rings of Power" video.

  1. I really don't get this race fixation. I'm black, I grew up with different groups and whatever I encountered in the real world concerning my skin color never reflected on my love for fiction. I think I had a brief period of in middle-school when finding your identity stage of thinking why there weren't a lot of diverse characters, and you can speculate, but if you have an industry majority one race...what do you expect? I don't think it needs to be equal or a race, and rarely did I grow up seeing black people into fantasy, comics and the like until it became popular. How many complain about race watching anime? I create my own stories because of the influence of fantasy works, videogames and animation. I don't concern myself with representation, I world-build for it to make sense and tell stories around that. Tolkien made his work based on a specific culture; that of the English. There should never be insertion or concern of any kind not related to what's in his books. I don't want to see America (not the world) reflected in Middle-Earth. I want to see Middle-Earth. I'm not thinking about skin color, I'm thinking about the character of the characters in it, whether virtuous or not. Because which matters more? If race determines character, are we know going back to that old mentality where once said blacks were inherently bad because of melanin? Reverse it and make it lack of means evil?
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  2. Any romance between a elf and human was written about because for one, it was rare, and two, it played a central role in the story. Assuming there is a blend with Easterlings on somewhat regular a basis is super conjecture. The only dark-skinned group I know of were those people to the south in Morgoth, and stated to be. Elves are not mortal, they are immortal, so almost different beings, Their offspring must choose mortality or immortality, which is a conflict in the relationships of those rare cases between humans and elves in love. Their offspring have to choose what world to live in. The one king called Half-Elven? Elros? He is the product of such.
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