Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Prequel
Series Goes Woke with ‘Elves of Color’
Breitbart Entertainment,
by
Warner Todd Huston
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
8/18/2022 12:55:50 PM
Two of the stars of the new Amazon Prime prequel of famed author J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings saga claim that “artistic license” will “reinvigorate” the show with its woke casting of racial minorities.
The Rings of Power co-stars Benjamin Walker and Ismael Cruz Córdova recently told reporters that the The Lord of the Rings prequel is “reinvigorating” Tolkien’s beloved epic.
“We took a reinvestment in the source material,” said actor Benjamin Walker who stars as the elf king, High King Gil-galad. “And that means that we went to his writing and allowed that to inspire whole new avenues for the show.”
“It allowed us for some artistic freedom
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Newtsche 8/18/2022 1:17:38 PM (No. 1252285)
Do they live on the wrong side of the Shire? Are they to be avoided when travelling in packs?
Hard pass here.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mossley 8/18/2022 1:25:22 PM (No. 1252298)
“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” - J.R.R. Tolkien
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 8/18/2022 1:29:59 PM (No. 1252307)
The people who put this together are JJ "LensFlare Time Warp Again" Abrams, former babysitter for Stephen Spielberg (gotta wonder why ol Stevie's daughter is now in the porn industry...) are acolytes and minions of Bad Robot (Abram's production company.) Who needs story, when you can have characters that care more about skin color and define themselves with how their sexual nerve endings are titilated. These are the same disgusting people who have broken Star Wars (Hero's Journey), Star Trek (Exploration and Science), and any other genuinely good art in the film industry.
What's more, I guess Tolkien's great-grandchildren really dont give a flying fig about adhering to a novel's theme. Just give them money! They sold it the minute Christopher Tolkien was sealed into his tomb. They are as much to blame for the way this has happened as Abrams.
Mordor has more than one way to bind them all...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 8/18/2022 1:32:43 PM (No. 1252312)
I won't be purchasing a ticket. I think they have destroyed themselves with their leftist lunacy.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JackBurton 8/18/2022 1:41:52 PM (No. 1252327)
I'm jake with this...
...as long as the orcs are all homosexual or transgender.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 8/18/2022 1:48:51 PM (No. 1252338)
"..we went to his writing and allowed that to inspire whole new avenues for the show.” “It allowed us for some artistic freedom"
cool.. like they do with the Bible and the Constitution
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Highlander 8/18/2022 1:53:24 PM (No. 1252344)
What the wokesters call “artistic freedom” is really artistic license, in a completely wrong way.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Luandir 8/18/2022 1:58:47 PM (No. 1252353)
There are any number of factors which could make or break this series. Choice and handling of the subject matter are paramount. You'd think that with the millions Amazon has invested in this project, they would be minimizing, rather than taking risks with their established customer base.
I am enough of a Tolkien devotee to give this series a chance, but this obvious wokeness/pandering is already making me squirm.
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I would be perfectly fine with casting people of various races as elves, or any other race...just ignore the actor's race and have every one merely see them as another elf, dwarf, hobbit, or human. But that does not seem to be what they are doing.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
slipstik 8/18/2022 2:31:53 PM (No. 1252390)
Lord of the Cringe.
Tolkien is flipping in his grave.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 8/18/2022 2:53:06 PM (No. 1252411)
Excuse the "ticket" error, I had assumed it would be a movie, read it poorly.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hershey 8/18/2022 3:40:06 PM (No. 1252458)
They just can't leave well enough alone can they??? What was the other latest flop??? The RIngs of Power or some such garbage...glad I have DVD's of the originals before they got 'woke'...
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
chumley 8/18/2022 4:44:07 PM (No. 1252506)
Star Trek came up with Lt Tuvok too. The actor did a great job, but really, what are the odds of another planet evolving two different colored races exactly like ours? Pretty darned woke there.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Peaches 8/18/2022 8:00:19 PM (No. 1252662)
I've been a huge Tolkien fan for 49 years and counting. I will NOT be watching this garbage assault on his literary legacy.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
danu 8/18/2022 11:47:55 PM (No. 1252827)
Verily, Tolkien fans are lit with an incandescent rage and disgust which can be seen from asteroid belt.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Faithfully 8/20/2022 12:34:30 AM (No. 1253940)
Write your own literature.
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