Quote from: Insane Nerd Ramblings on March 17, 2023, 08:48:01 AM
Welp,

turns out its not JUST Aragorn. Now its also Éowyn and Galadriel too. The fuckers at WotC who did this are slime of the highest sort but are about to discover they messed with the wrong franchise. My guess is that a large part of this set is gonna end up in landfills across the US....

Linkage?

Quote from: Ghostmaker on March 17, 2023, 10:25:02 AMLinkage?

The sad thing about race-swapping is, you still have mostly white people making the decisions, and doing the creating, so they're not going to create great new black, brown, yellow or red IP.

A black Aragorn is a stupid and meaningless virtue signaling gesture, made by upscale honkeys.  Give me a black hero to rival Aragorn, and make the color of his skin the least of his virtues.

Quote from: crkrueger on March 20, 2023, 05:38:05 AMThe sad thing about race-swapping is, you still have mostly white people making the decisions, and doing the creating, so they're not going to create great new black, brown, yellow or red IP.

In any other context, what the scum at WotC did would be classified as blackface. And honestly, at this point, that's all I can think of it as: modern blackface by nitwits who couldn't be trusted to pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel.

Seattle needs a nuke.

Given that Arwen is Galadriel's granddaughter, it seems that the choices of who got race-swapped and how were not thought through very thoroughly.

Quote from: Spinachcat on March 20, 2023, 06:56:54 PMSeattle needs a nuke.

Well, it might improve the property values...

Quote from: Armchair Gamer on March 20, 2023, 08:25:45 PM
Given that Arwen is Galadriel's granddaughter, it seems that the choices of who got race-swapped and how were not thought through very thoroughly.

Bro, you know no one at WotC believes in Genetics.

Quote from: crkrueger on March 20, 2023, 05:38:05 AM
The sad thing about race-swapping is, you still have mostly white people making the decisions, and doing the creating, so they're not going to create great new black, brown, yellow or red IP.

I've started calling it "White leftovers".

I don't remember anyone's skin colour being mentioned in Tolkien.
Given that Tolkien was a strong anti apartheid campaigner, so quite opposed to racial segregation or defining people by race then I am not really sure where you are coming from.

Quote from: silencio789 on March 22, 2023, 05:50:52 PM
I don't remember anyone's skin colour being mentioned in Tolkien.
Given that Tolkien was a strong anti apartheid campaigner, so quite opposed to racial segregation or defining people by race then I am not really sure where you are coming from.

The Haradrim were described as swarthy and brown.

And so were Frenchmen in 19th century novels.

Quote from: silencio789 on March 22, 2023, 05:50:52 PM
I don't remember anyone's skin colour being mentioned in Tolkien.
Given that Tolkien was a strong anti apartheid campaigner, so quite opposed to racial segregation or defining people by race then I am not really sure where you are coming from.

Tolkien did describe skin color at a number of points in his works - along with other features like hair color, eyes, and so forth - though not always. So from a purism standpoint, it is incorrect.

On the other hand, there are lots of things that aren't off in adaptations that are often overlooked. In the movies, Frodo was cast as a teenager when he was a 50-year-old man in the books. It was brought up as a technicality, but almost no one got upset over it. We didn't see threads over "age-swapping" of Frodo.

The core issue is that some people see skin tone changes as racial bias against white people -- just as historically many have complained of pro-white bias when casting white actors as previously non-white characters - from Charlie Chan to Legend of Earthsea.

I think it's too often knee-jerk reaction either way. For example, some people complained about yellowface in the movie Cloud Atlas -- but that was a case where many actors were cast either way across type, so I didn't have a problem with it. Adaptations often make changes to the original like age-swapped Frodo, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. I haven't seen the MtG sets in general, so I don't have an opinion here.

Greetings!

More anti-white racism. It is designed purposefully to denigrate and mock white men, white strength, white values, and white heroes--and replace them with black men. Or women. It is all a table full of Woke BS. Virtually anyone or anything is better, and more noble, than white men. White culture must be destroyed. Part of that ambition is also calibrated to always showing the white women hooking up with black men, or becoming lesbians, or whatever.

All of this is also, not coincidentally, inspired from Marxism. It is all designed to demoralize an entire society, to emotionally exhaust them, and break them down, and cause divisions. This makes them all weaker and more ready to just get on their knees and accept the slave yoke to the Marxist/Globalist super-state.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Quote from: silencio789 on March 22, 2023, 05:50:52 PMI don't remember anyone's skin colour being mentioned in Tolkien.

I'm sorry, what were you wrong about?

QuoteFrodo found that Strider was now looking at him, as if he had heard or guessed all that had been said. Presently, with a wave of his hand and a nod, he invited Frodo to come over and sit by him. As Frodo drew near be threw back his hood, showing a shaggy head of dark hair necked with grey, and in a pale stem face a pair of keen grey eyes.

- At the Sign of The Prancing Pony, The Lord of the Rings