Racist Thing of the Week: … Lord of the Rings??

author: elainechen category: administrative, calling 'em out, entertainment and stuff tags: date: January 14th, 2009

If you squint hard enough, you may be able to make them out!

Some food for thought: So all the “evil” men in this movie just so happen to be indigenous men of color who can’t communicate in any comprehensible language and unfairly ride oliphaunts that crush and destroy all the “good men” of Middle Earth, who just so happen to be entirely composed of white men?? What up with that, Peter Jackson? No men of Rohan and Gondor happen to be men of color? Now that Aragorn’s king, he better check in on diversifying those ranks of his. Sure, he’s got hobbits, elves, dwarves, and wizards as friends, but c’mon, you couldn’t find any other minority man? Or even WOMAN? Talk about a lack of diversity.

And man, Gandalf: you’re such a white supremacist.

(Yeah. This is how I spent my winter break. 12+ hours of Extended Edition footage on a wide-screen HD TV: glorious. Despite how racist Lord of the Rings may be, however, I still love it. Epic fight scenes! Go Frodo!)

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