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"THERE ARE NO BLACK PEOPLE IN RIVENDELL, IT'S UNREALISTIC"
To be honest, I absolutely would expect the cast to be way more diverse if the movies were shot today. It's shocking how white those movies are- I'm pretty sure the haradrim are the only on-screen POC in the entire trilogy. The Hobbit movies tried to correct for this by having POC extras in the crowd scenes in Laketown, and some of them may have even had a few lines. Still no actual characters though
It's kinda funny that the terrible Dungeons and Dragons movie with Jeremy Irons that came out a year before Fellowship had an elf portrayed by a black actor as one of the main characters
Why couldn't elves be black? aragorn is so racist he couldn't love a black lady? the light of the trees could easily explain blackness of elves, living under the literal sun on a tree, and cause they live so long, they are unlikely to whiten even after 5000 years away. although all high elves would have to be black, would be stellar
smh, fake fans. make sindorei or whatever those based dark forest elves outside of valinor whiteys, cause they haven't seen the light of the trees (there were some passage ascribing some negative quality to them, was it not?)
*also, also the real trvth nvke is that she watched him grow up, she is elvish bridgitte macron.