I think this issue is somewhat within my lane since the original Tolkien Orcs were specifically a racist caricature of Asians And my thing is like, what's done is done and it's too late to "cancel Orcs" completely from our pop culture, but I'm allowed to make be snarky about ithttps://twitter.com/HoldenShearer/status/1254414174484140034 …
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Somehow, no matter what the explanation was -- the Silmarillion saying they were mutant Elves, the other stories saying Morgoth grew them from slime or engineered them from animals Dr. Moreau style, the "they're all very minor Maiar demons" theory -- they had to look Asian
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What did Tolkien say about his mental view of the elves? They also can be considered Asian (i.e., not Nordic) it seems to me (?)
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OK wow, I never heard about that filmmaker interaction. Yikes. Though I wouldn't have expected a racist to regret the real world racism part of orcs, JRRT acknowledging he fucked up by making them an evil monolith is an extremely low bar that any fan of his REALLY should clear.
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