Baby Bilbo.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    lmao RoP is so bad and we're supposed to sympathize with a fascist elf girlboss

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Honestly don't care. Fantasy is full of problematic tropes and I really don't care. I don't have to sympathize with anyone.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Evil Uruk: I killed Sauron and we want our land back so we wont starve and die

        Good Elf: I will kill all of you, filthy orc (with ukrainian flag pfp)

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            2 years ago

            That would be extremely weird because while Galadriel can be a stone cold bitch and is one of the scariest people in Arda during the third age, she's right; orcs are evil. Every orc is evil. It's their unchangable nature. Maybe they need to emphasize that orcs have devasted and enslaved the entire world multiple times and fully intend to do it again.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          2 years ago

          Normal Hexbear User: "I can't believe anyone would just casually suggest the deaths of an entire nation of people. So problematic!"

          Also NHU: "Death to America"

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I can see it being hard to do orcs in a prestige TV series. "Always chaotic evil" race is problematic, to the point where even Tolkien thought so and was never really satisfied with the Orcs being always evil all the time.

      I think Shadow of War did an excellent job of portraying Orcs. Some are witty, some are charming, some are scary, some are brave, some are weird. But every one of them is evil to the core. They managed to fill the orcs with so much life and complexity and personality without forgetting that at the end of the day orcs are evil. It was just so well done, i really admire it.