re: #192 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Amazon is spending a billion dollars for a new “LOTR” series, so they will push it hard when it is released. It will be the bait to keep Prime subscribers.

It’s not really LOTR of course since they have to set it in a period of Tolkien’s universe that is thousands of years before LOTR.

So no hobbits. No wizards either, unless Amazon invent new ones. In that case, sure, there will be great outcry about “canon”.

But the real angst will come if there is even one elf with dark skin. That will be cataclysmic for the racist sector of Tolkien fandom.

Humans in the story could be dark skin, but they can’t be the good guys, who all come from the west and the north.

The only other “race” (in Tolkien terminology) that could be in a Second Age story would be the dwarves, and they aren’t supposed to be dark skin either.

Should Amazon actually insert some of the pantheon in the story (and the Tolkien estate probably would veto that kind of thing)… well, if they are dark skin then that might be a problem of cosmological scale.

Also - Tolkien fandom is in great fear of gay or bi relationships in this new series. Some of Tolkien fandom are straight up complaining already of any sex scenes in the coming series.

Anyway, Amazon has a tough road ahead if they are going to find the acceptance of their billion dollar venture.

If Tolkien fans made it through the movies, where Sam and Frodo are like goddamned Brokeback Mordor, then they should be able to handle gay characters in a silmarillion universe.