The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Has People Of Colour, Get Over It

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Vanity Fair has published the first official images from The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power this week, and fans are dissecting every pixel to try to understand exactly how the show is going to look. I even had a go myself, getting sucked into Morfydd Clark’s damp Galadriel to work out whether her armour spells non-canonical controversy or not.

However, the reveals have come with sadly predictable backlash from certain members of the community, as Vanity Fair’s new images showed that the Amazon series will include people of colour. Before we get any further, I want to make this clear: whether you’re trolling, gatekeeping, plain old racist, or all of the above, you have no place in this fandom.

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Ismael Cruz Córdova plays the first elf of colour in any on-screen Tolkien adaptation as Arondir, a non-canonical Amazon introduction. Ever since the cast was announced, we knew he was going to be an elf. Nothing was announced, but with his piercing eyes and those cheekbones as sharp as any sword of Gondolin, he was hardly going to be a hobbit or dwarf. He’s now confirmed to be a silvan elf, and one of the story threads of The Rings of Power will follow his forbidden relationship with a human, Bronwyn, played by British-Iranian actress Nazanin Boniadi. British comedian Lenny Henry, who is Black, plays a harfoot, an ancestor of the hobbits we know and love from The Lord of the Rings.

It’s sadly not surprising that comments are usually rooted in misogyny, too; I’ve seen far more people complain about Sophia Nomvete’s dwarf princess Disa - the first Black dwarf in a Tolkien adaptation - than Córdova’s elf or