but taking that to some ridiculous extreme is silly too

balanced diet

eat meat, eat grains and vegetables, eat fat

NO BEANS

fantasy writing, perenially uncool, has finally caught up to the identity politics people as a genre. The old cool thing was "grimdark" crypto-christian morality plays that follow the american tradition of objectifying violence

heh

the new cool thing is settings that aren't "european" and feature a diverse cast

That's retarded.

except they still just continue to ape tolkien, they just stick it in the chinese skin or the african skin or whatever

so it's extra retarded

Tolkein had blacks and Arabs as gullible savages.

yeah. easterlings and haradrim

And hordes of easterlings

Who are supposed to be asiastics

And some Russians.

Gondor is Byzantium and Arnor is Western Europe

was Rhun supposed to be russians?

And unlike Peter Jackson

Umbar was like north african

It's supposed to be like 1000ad

Or 1100

https://twitter.com/KidRock/status/890421245476524032

Yeah, except he left the tech level in the shire anachronistically high. I think they had a whole postal service

which I have no issue with lol

The shire is olde England

Which is where Peter Jackson got confused.

I hope when kid rock wins his inaugural speech goes MY NAME IS KIIIIIIIIIIIII..."

Their costumes are like 17th century peasant clothes.

In his movie.

pepe kekson

Also Frodo is supposed to be like 40-50 something

And Sam like 25

And Frodo is the officer and Sam is his batman

No one ever wants to join voice

They're not gay or chummy at all

The movies made frodo a lot less socially superior to sam

The movies made Frodo a bitch

And made him attack Sam and dumb shit

And fucked the ending

Where he straight up just takes the ring.

Like Isildur did.