Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Kolsykol]

Last thing I'll say about it since the whole thread should probably not be about it xD.
But I think there's quite a lot of gaslighting going on about this stuff too and people should call it out more often and not fall for it.
Obviously if you have a problem with stuff going on in the LOTR Rings of Power show for example there's going to be actual racists who on a very surface level might fall on the same '' side '' as you.
That doesn't mean that everyone who has a problem with it has a problem with it due to racism...

Most of the criticism I've seen makes sense contextually, and it's not about '' these people don't belong in fantasy ''.
I also think a lot of people take issue with the notion that LOTR needs to '' reflect our world '' ( which just means NA, and also for some reason they forget that other minorities exist too... ).
Uum, excuse me.
LOTR is not the real world, I think people want to see Tolkiens world...
If anything I've seen a lot of people annoyed that they don't include Easterlings, because there's a lot of history behind why they aligned with Sauron in the trilogy which would actually have been very interesting to get into and would've added more depth to them for ppl who only know of LOTR from the movies.
Personally I think shedding more light on that and having more sympathetic Easterlings would've been really cool and it also would've been a lot more lore accurate.

It's the same with weird depictions and trying to rewrite European history and folklore.
Like holy hell why not just look outside of Europe and actually tell stories from other continents?
I think it'd be interesting but instead they just pretend like Europe in the medieval ages had the demographics of modern day NA.
I just feel like it's insulting my intelligence and it also makes it feel less real to anyone who's not historically illiterate.
One of my biggest gripes with basically all depictions of the Trojan War for example is that Memnon is always cut.
Why?............. They literally have a character AND AN ENTIRE ARMY right there but instead of depicting him they cut the character and change another o_o.
Dude is pretty important to the story even... He was basically Achilles but on the other side.

The worst for me are those sites that, instead of just having a question/answer format, have to try spin narrative, where you're trying to figure out what was actually said and what is the author's (often heavy) spin on it.

'' People are outraged ''

*Links to two tweets with 0-1 likes each as evidence*