Only Galadriel is brave, smart and nice.- Elon Musk September 5, 2022īut dunking on people who think a fantasy about elves, wizards and hobbits can somehow be made less "realistic" by casting some characters with Black and brown performers, misses an important part of this discussion. You can try to place your comments in perspective, but all they see is a beloved piece of media "tarnished" by the observation that it was created to elevate white culture in a way that should be interrogated and changed.Īlmost every male character so far is a coward, a jerk or both.
Talking honestly about race in fantasy TVįrankly, as a Black TV and media critic who speaks out often on race issues, it's not new to find some audience members severely triggered whenever the topic comes up. (Fun fact: that outburst was triggered by a column NPR colleague Aisha Harris wrote back when she worked for Slate.)īut as columnists and late night hosts craft their snarky insults about pop culture racism, it's worth noting why so many fans are reacting this way: the original works that they love were super white-centered in the first place.Īnd these ideas about who gets to stand at the center of pop culture sorely need to be challenged. It nabbed 13 Oscar nods and took home four statuettes and was followed by two similarly successful installments, "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" in 2002 and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" in 2003.Amid grousing about "white erasure" - as if white people are now or have ever been historically underrepresented in fantasy films - it all felt like a twisted version of the argument former Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly once made when she insisted that the fictional Santa Claus was white. Tolkien novel "The Fellowship of the Ring," the epic fantasy-adventure flick is still considered one of the greatest films ever made. Directed by Peter Jackson and based on the 1954 J.R.R. In honor of the latest Middle-earth-set story, is taking a look at what the stars of the original movie in the sweeping saga - "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," which hit theaters in 2001 - are up to (and look like!) now… "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" killed it at the box office, bringing in more than $888 million worldwide after its premiere on Dec. Hobbits and wizards and elves, oh my! "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" - a series set thousands of years before the events chronicled in "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" - debuts on Amazon Prime Video on Sept.
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