And I keep saying the worst part is that Tolkien Half-Orcs aren't "speciesism" against, like, video game grunts that you shoot for the sake of cool action sequences Like it's actual literal racism, analogous to real world racism Normal people who live in town with evil blood
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Nobody *knows for sure* that Bill Ferny is a Half-Orc, no one knows his family tree, but hey look at those squinty eyes and that sallow skin tone It totally goes with his creepy behavior and general shiftiness When you find out he's a mole for Saruman hey you shoulda known
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my favorite part about that is that he meant "allegory" as in "a story which exists mostly as parable for abstract concepts" and was probably just subtweeting CS Lewis dude loved his allusion
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We’ve rehabilitated and subverted other problematic-allegory monster tropes, though, and built up mainstream tolerance for super-beings as a medium in a sandbox instead of a genre formula. “Bright” clearly isn’t the best we can do, but I’m hopeful nonetheless.
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