Adar's Wife

Anonymous black fan #SFF I discuss racism, sexism, and other 'isms' in the #SFF and other high fantasy fandoms. Also discuss theories! #BLM
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[Adar's Wife @DiverseTolkien]

Happy Black History Month #RingsOfPower fandom. This is the first time we can celebrate legit black Tolkien characters on the big screen. Like do you know how amazing that is? I've included them below, but let me know if I missed any. Hoping for more representation soon

[Adar's Wife @DiverseTolkien]

@Arwenoblemaiden Apparently there's new lotr movies in talks to be made and he's involved in those confederations

[Adar's Wife @DiverseTolkien]

If PJ directs them please, please let him not just hire white ppl. I'll cry

[Adar's Wife @DiverseTolkien]

@bIoodrose for aesthetics.

[Adar's Wife @DiverseTolkien]

@bIoodrose belonging to said group portraying it. Not that they can't do so accurately, I think it's possible. I just understand it's easy to do it very badly. I mean arguably Tolkien did do it badly. But in terms of fandom, I don't think that's what's being done. I just believe it's purely

[Adar's Wife @DiverseTolkien]

@bIoodrose Fandom clinging on to colonizers as black, to the point of being incredibly defensive of said headcanons. Like it's fine and pretty but... uncomfortable sometimes

[Adar's Wife @DiverseTolkien]

@bIoodrose I feel this about some elves. Aesthetically it's nice but I feel ways seeing Fingon, a colonizer, always racebent as black. Same with everyone in Gondolin. After Eöl's anti-colonization speech, and the fact that they took Sindar lands, I feel, dare I say, uncomfortable, with

[Adar's Wife @DiverseTolkien]

When I think of AI destroying the world I also think of that Deep Space Nine episode where Garak downloaded/purchased that fake scenario and how much trouble it caused

[Adar's Wife @DiverseTolkien]

@Josh2Gud4U Anna Diop as the most desirable woman in Middle Earth at the time is something I fw. I love it here.

[PiScEs27 AKA: Gandalf's Apprentice @Josh2Gud4U]

Anna Diop as Arwen

[Adar's Wife @DiverseTolkien]

"People would care more about this if it was about black people and racism" will never be an appropriate thing to say, because many things are already about black issues and people do not care.

[anna 🏹 @myelessar]

looking back, adar’s “i am no god. at least… not yet” is my favourite quote from the rings of power. so so good and the delivery is just incredible

[Adar's Wife @DiverseTolkien]

@AJBurlap people. Other comparisons exist, please use one that's not actively happening and hasn't been actively happening. You can kill a black person on a street with the world watching you and still get off scotch free. Your comparisons have already had real life consequences

[Adar's Wife @DiverseTolkien]

Please do not throw other marginalized people under the bus because people are buying the game. Black, brown, and Jewish people have had dialogue for years about how harmful Rowling has been to us in her writing and we have thus been ignored. I understand the anger and rage but

[Alex Burley #JayKellyNation @AJBurlap]

If JK targeted any other marginalized group, 10x more people would be against this game. But so many liberals have accepted the right's framing of trans rights as a matter of political disagreement that they view genocidal anti-trans bigotry as wrong yet ultimately permissible.

[Adar's Wife @DiverseTolkien]

@AJBurlap People wouldn't care about Jim Crow era laws if Rowling advocated for them because people in Southern states have already advocated and put laws forward that are Jim Crow era. You're making a real life comparison to things that are already happening as an excuse to dog on black

[Adar's Wife @DiverseTolkien]

@AJBurlap I'm not disagreeing with that, I'm disagreeing with you saying that other marginalized people haven't been vocal or haven't cared. And that if she was a bigot to other groups, people would have protested her work. We did. And you should have cared when we did before.