The Hall of Fire

Alatar wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 2:17 pm The problem is that this institutionalised racism is predominantly an American problem

What has led you to believe this is a predominantly American problem and not a global problem?

Alatar wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 10:00 am You know, it occurs to me that even though "Silmarils in Mithril can restore the Life of the Eldar" (Or SMiLE as I'm now dubbing it) is a crazy invention, it still make more sense than "Arwens Life Is tied to the Fate of the Ring"

Guh, I hated that line

Y'know, I realized on the way to work I've actually missed the point entirely here: DISNEY remade Disney's The Little Mermaid with a Black actress. A "black" studio did not come and take Disney's The Little Mermaid and remake it with a Black actress. Why did Disney do it? Presumably becaus...

The point of 'Hamilton' is to re-imagine history. In Miranda's words: "America then, as told by America now," as the author/actor/composer sees it. 'Roots' is about slavery and 'race' (as in skin color) is integral to the story and history of enslavement. Try re-imagining that and swappin...

I can't agree that 100 years of history of discrimination was somehow nullified in the last few years because of a few movies that cast POC actors where a white actor might have been cast before. I can't agree that a few token POC actors being cast in roles not specifically noted as white somehow e...

Sigh. I can tell this is going to be a pointless conversation if we can't even agree that equality means equality. Perhaps we can't because we fundamentally disagree on what constitutes equality. I can't agree that 100 years of history of discrimination was somehow nullified in the last few years b...

I'm sorry I couldn't provide up to the minute movie examples as I largely don't watch movies any longer and I don't exactly make a point of going out and searching for these, this is just what I've come across over the years. And it's not just 'Hollywood' - Most western society has been this way, Ho...

I think a lot of the problem with colour blind casting is that it only goes one way? We can cast POC as Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, Valerians, Eliza Doolittle, Ariel and anything else, but we can't have a White Hamilton, or T'challa, or indeed even put on a production of "In the Heights" or ...

I'm biased here, in that I vastly prefer the idea of Gil-galad as an Arafinwean, Absolutely agree! For several reasons - First because it creates a very appealing symmetry with an Arafinwean as High King in Middle-earth while Arafin himself is High King in Valinor Second because he's the brother wh...

Here is what always baffles me about these kinds of articles (not the article itself, just the information in them) Trump exaggerated the square footage of his triplex apartment in Trump Tower, claiming it was 30,000 square feet rather than its actual size of 11,000 square feet, and therefore should...

To use a different example. Imagine we are remaking Crouching Tiger still set in the mythical ages of China. Casting Idris Elba, Indira Varma and Daisy Ridley to play the three main characters would IMO be absurd. Something Hollywood has been doing for as long as it's been making movies - except al...

I knew what you meant. Men (i.e. Humans) can be somewhat stratified by color, sure. No reason to assume modern racial categories apply in middle-earth, but sure, let's assume that. There is zero reason to assume Elves and Dwarves must also be, especially since they did not spread out as Men did, tha...

The same with the dwarves, who all migrated from the far East. Disa is a perfectly plausible character as is. Except that being "white" is simply treated as the default, because if you're not, it's pointed out. Everyone migrated from the far East before there was an equator. By that logic...

But equally there are those on the right who would say that popular properties are being used in an orchestrated effort to drive people left politically, to pursue a globalist agenda. It works both ways. It is, I think, naive to say that the right is "orchestrating" campaigns when Disney ...

That's what was in the empty folders. Hillary broke in and retrieved them because she knew this was going to happen. She was very sneaky and left no evidence behind. Cleverly disguised herself so no one recognized her on the security feeds and then just waltzed in and grabbed them from the very sec...

Inanna wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 4:25 pm That sent shivers down my spine!!!

RoseMorninStar wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 4:57 pm I need to take inspiration from your inspiration el (and get to work!) I've had a bit of painters block.

Honestly, though I've never been much of an artist (I find it very draining) I'm surprised how much I'm feeling inspired lately

Spoilered just cause... I dunno, it's tame but I mean there's blood. Well, there's red ink, but you get the idea.

Finrod wrestles the werewolf

Alatar wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 4:42 pm Its Willow. What were you expecting?

I was 11 when it came out, my standards might have changed *a touch* since then but I'm *very* excited!

*okay admittedly the dialogue sounds a bit cheesy but I don't care!*

I'm not sure the use of 'damn' was ever in question