@Bill.de.Cat
Im against people being cancelled for voicing an opinion no matter what side they're on. Especially with the Amazon rings of power interviews and the hype and a lot of people not knowing anything about the Tolkien works upset me cuz that it's already an inclusive world where everyone is welcome. Over and over in interviews people try to make comparisons with actual events and he just said nope he just made it as it came organically. It's the best part about it. Its a look at good, evil, on how sometimes people trying so hard to do good can end up doing evil. "Even the smallest person can change the course of history" so there's kind of about sticking up for the little guy/downtrodden/ underdogs. So the only problem I have is Tolkien was so descriptive about everything that if you throw a black girl with no beard in as a dwarf, she wouldn't be black cuz he says u can barely tell the difference between the men so they're pale cuz they live under mountains and bearded but that's just me being a little too purist to the cannon. So i guess what im tryna say is i think everyone could learn a lot by reading instead of "me me me"
Just some words from a beautiful human being:
- "All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others."
-War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
Rütten & Loening’s a German publisher in 1938 asked about Tolkien's Aryan roots. First, Tolkien pointed out that their definition of “Aryan” was way wrong (linguistics geekery FTW!). He then addressed their concerns about his ancestry directly.
-“But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin," with enough furious sarcasm to power an entire kingdom under the mountain “I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people.”
-"Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the wise falter."
-I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.
- “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
@Mossy