re: #242 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

I’m not suggesting that it should affect the casting decisions in the current show, but there is no question that Tolkien’s original intention was to create a mythology for England, and he noted (and changed where he could — tobacco became pipe-weed, for example) anachronisms in his work. It simply doesn’t matter what color they were, then or now — except to crazy white supremacists who mix a perverted version of Tolkien with Nazi ideology for their world view.

Shakespeare’s original intention was for a Scottish-looking Macbeth and Macduff, but Denzil Washington and Corey Hawkins pulled it off quite nicely. It’s featured right now on Apple TV+.

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