tags: adventure, fantasy, thriller
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From Goodreads
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure, The Lord of the Rings.
Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of power - the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plan for dominion is the One Ring - the ring that rules them all - which has fallen in the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.The Lord of the Rings is once again on entertainment news because of Amazon's original prequel series based on the book series and The Silmarillion. Viewers are divided between liking and hating the series because once again woke Hollywood added Blacks for diversity crap. Galadriel also is portrayed differently than the book. Because strong female...Galadriel is an Elven queen, not a warrior! Amazon had to temporarily remove reviews because there were more 1 star and negative reviews than positive.
Viewers are simply tired of seeing classic literature bastardized to satisfy racial diversity equality stupidity. For example. Ariel, the little mermaid is played by a Black actress and it deserves being mocked by several memes, changing the hair color to red, lightening the skin, and making the nose narrower because why would a Danish author make his character Black? Disney did not invent Ariel. I hope it bombs at the box office.
When the debate on the Black Hobbit became an issue with viewers, Neil Gaiman had a Twitter meltdown defending the Black actor included in the series mentioning that there are "brown Hobbits" in the book. I don't remember that when I read it eons ago. So I read it again. THERE ARE NO BLACK OR BROWN HOBBITS AND DWARVES EVER! Browner of skin does not mean they are Black.
"There are 3 different breeds of Hobbits. The Harfoots are the browner of skin, smaller, shorter, and they are beardless and bootless, their hands and feet were neat and nimble, and they preferred highlands and hillsides."
Woke Hollywood and authors like Neil Gaiman should stop their nonsense already! Stop forcing Blacks and Asians playing characters in movie and TV adaptations of novels that have original white European people on viewing public. They should instead encourage non Whites to research their culture, make movies about them, and stop appropriating white culture. Colored people invented the term "cultural appropriation", now the tables are turned and let's see if they recognize themselves. Ha! These wokesters are killing their own industry by making viewers puke at every woke production they come up with. No money for you!
I remember reading the main character Maggie Tulliver in George Eliot's The Mill On The Floss described as dark complexioned. Her parents are white English people but she is the only dark complexioned child among her cousins and brother. It doesn't mean she is Black or Asian, or some other colored race. In fact she is frustrated with her extremely straight hair that refuses to curl no matter what she does. When she was acting up and bratty, she ran away from home and went to a homestead where a gypsy family lives, thinking because she has browner skin they'll accept her as their own. It's a good thing George Eliot's books are not popular with Hollywood. Otherwise, they'll make Maggie a Black girl with kinky hair just because she is dark complexioned.
BBC produced films and TV series based on 5 George Eliot books. I've only seen Silas Marner with Ben Kingsley [half Indian half English] as Silas and a bit of Middlemarch. Silas Marner is good but Middlemarch was awful. I haven't seen the other 3 - Daniel Deronda, Adam Bede, The Mill On The Floss - and don't plan to. They usually ruin the original by casting super old actors to portray children and teenagers.
