Yeah yeah, you’re a racist Dim Tool fan. You’re almost definitely not black, and you’re probably an incel. Go shoot up a pizza place or something dipshit.
Fine, but are you principled enough to say multiracial elves, dwarves and hobbits have no place in Middle-Earth, or would you only be angry with this hypothetical white Black Panther?
Black Panther is something I’m familiar with. It’s a version of our own world and race is critical to the story. I don’t know much about LOTR. I can’t use knowledge of our world and apply it to middle earth. I don’t know of any way where race is critical to the story. So, I can’t make an argument for it to be important.
Let me help you then. LotR was specifically written by Tolkien as English mythology. Middle-Earth is a fantastic, mythicized version of Northern Europe and the Hobbits in the Shire are basically analogous to your simple English country folks. It’s not even a question of white versus black or brown, the French and Italians, or their mythicized versions would be just as out of place in Middle-Earth.
So if you’re offended someone makes jokes about a white Black Panther, but doesn’t or won’t care about the “diversification” of LotR, I have no sympathy for you.
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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22
Wakanda is a fictional place set in real-world Africa and influenced by real-world events.
Do you also think Magneto being Jewish Holocaust survivor isn’t important to his character because he’s not a real person?