Thursday, March 03, 2022

Chris Gore on the new Amazon Lord of the Rings nonsense

If you're a wokie who only listens to dittohead mainstream media garbage, then you haven't heard about the tsunami of backlash against Amazon's billion-dollar project: "Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," an LOTR-based fantasy series that's supposed to take place thousands of years prior to the adventures of Frodo, Sam, and Gandalf, in what's called the Second Age. In the following video, Chris Gore, a writer, film critic, and founder of Film Threat magazine, talks about what happens when you try to shoehorn your political ideology into someone else's work instead of doing your best to respect that work. 

Gore doesn't strike me as particularly conservative, but he stands firm on the idea that it's best, when dealing with a work that's not your own, to respect that work as much as possible. "The Rings of Power" includes all sorts of Tolkien-violating nonsense, including a militant Galadriel in armor, a black dwarf woman who is also beardless (dwarf women are described as having beards, and Tolkien's world is northern European, not African), a black elf, and a single mom who plays some sort of role. The producers of this nonsense thought it'd be cool to "update" Tolkien's world to make it look more like ours, which is, of course, a huge mistake. Would "Black Panther" work if you populated Wakanda with Asians? And after all the screaming and gnashing of teeth about "cultural appropriation," it seems mighty hypocritical for Amazon to follow this woke path. But hypocrisy is the woke left's stock in trade.





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