Conservatives Are Melting Down Over Nonwhite Elves in ‘Rings of Power'

'Tolkien is turning in his grave,' tweeted sad rich troll Elon Musk.

, has cast a handful of nonwhite actors in contrast with themovies of the 200s. And predictably enough, a lot of online trolls and right-wing media personalities are pissed the new show is being untrue to the supposedly all-white world of Middle Earth.titled “When ‘wokeness’ comes to Middle-earth: Why some say diverse casting ruins the new ‘Lord of the Rings’ series.” “Wokeness,” of course, is used synonymously with “Black and Asian people.

audience ratings of the show on its platform for 72 hours on Saturday to try to combat similar review-bombing.Social media posts blasting the show for inclusivity are endless, all comically outraged by non-snow-white elves, thoughtweet in particular comparing the show to Black Panther being cast as a white man will probably stay with me the longest.

To be clear, there’s pretty much no basis for any of this outrage—Tolkien’s writing never expressly identified anyone as white; Middle Earth may be influenced by European Medieval times, but that’s hardly mutually exclusive with the existence of Black people.

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