LOTR: Why The Diversity In The Rings Of Power Is So Important
Though the Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series has not even been released yet, it’s already experienced some adamant pushback from a portion of fans for casting decisions. Some fans have felt the need to voice their distaste for the adaptation’s inclusion of more diversity, claiming that it strayed too much from Tolkien’s writing.
Several internet users have rather inaccurately distinguished the two sides of this argument as between “die-hard Tolkien fans” and “layman fans” or, fans of the movies with no knowledge of Tolkien’s writing of the world. In actuality, it’s a debate between individuals that understand and accept how adaptations work, and those that don’t.
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With the uproar that these disgruntled fans have made, outsiders to the conversation might think that the writers of Rings of Powercompletely rewrote the story as a sci-fi, or some other extreme difference. The reality of the matter, however, is that if it stays true to the tone, message, and overarching story then it achieves its purpose as an adaptation.
The fans that are opposed to the addition of diversity, whatever their argument may be, are completely dismissing the perspective of entire groups of people. Many of the individuals that are passionate followers of Tolkien’s works and the recreations made of them, have been fans of the stories for years- maybe even their whole lives. For those people, Tolkien’s worlds were a unique and immersive experience that inspired the reader to be courageous. In most cases, they even had a character, or multiple, that they connected to and saw themselves in, but being an almost entirely white cast, this was an experience that in
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