Racist ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Fans Can’t Handle Black, Female Dwarves In New Prequel Trailer
"Bro, they are a FANTASY DWARF. In a world with MAGIC and DRAGONS and ring-stealing ghosts."
Racist pissbaby LOTR fans have decided that Female Dwarfs of Colour is the proverbial hill they want to die on.
Amid last week’s Superbowl, Amazon dropped the long-awaited trailer for Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, featuring a badass elf catching an arrow mid-flight and a suspiciously Game of Thrones-esque ice climbing sequence. However, if you’ve checked the video out on YouTube, you might have been stumped by a mysterious phrase that overwhelming repeats itself across the comments section.
That new LOTR rings of power trailer has the whole comment section just this quote kek pic.twitter.com/Mq603MWneP
— N I M B ❂ (@Nimbopill) February 15, 2022
It seems like disgruntled LOTR fans have joined in some kind of international solidarity, with the phrase being repeated in English, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Spanish, Turkish, and of course Elvish. The phrase, taken from a speech Frodo makes to Sam somewhere in the midst of The Return of the King, is being weaponised to critique the direction that LOTR fans perceive the series is heading.
lotr twitter watching the trailer like pic.twitter.com/8BABhKoeWH
— olive/rowan ✨ (@meIetheldi) February 14, 2022
Tragically, yet predictably, the direction that has attracted all the ire is largely over the diversity of the new cast, featuring Ismael Cruz Córdova, Nazanin Bonjadi, and Sophia Nomvete. Córdova and Nomvete’s castings are series firsts, with the actors being cast as an elf and dwarf of colour respectively.
The funniest argument I keep seeing about the POC Dwarf in LOTR is “There’s not enough melanin underground”.
Like bro, they are a FANTASY DWARF. In a world with MAGIC and DRAGONS and ring-stealing ghosts.
Why are you even bringing that up, just admit to being racist.
— AmberBerries (@TheAmberBerries) February 14, 2022
So far, Amazon and the production team of the LOTR prequel have presented a strong front in defending their casting decision. In response to the neckbeard furore, Executive Producer of the series Lindsey Weber told Indiewire that “Tolkien is for everyone.”
“His stories are about his fictional races doing their best work when they leave the isolation of their own cultures and come together,” said Weber.
Now that crap debate about whether black dwarfs have a right to exist in Middle Earth is raging across LOTR subreddits, it’s certain that other productions of the epic fantasy — like this underground soviet adaption of Lord of the Rings from the ’90s — will not escape criticism.
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power premieres on September 2nd on Amazon Prime.