@nonlocalai Black Americans are the only people in the world who waste the opportunity and privilege of living in America
Nobody wants to be Black, but millions of people would trade places with us and do far more than what we’re doing
This scene from Rings of Power season 3 is perhaps the most egregious and flippant distortion of Tolkien’s work.
In fact, there is so much wrong in this scene that if the cosmology of Tolkien’s legendarium were a real living religion, with Eru Ilúvatar as the Creator and the Flame Imperishable (Secret Fire) as his uncreated creative power, the scene would expose the writers to several classic religious charges:
Blasphemy, heresy, profanity, sacrilege, impiety or irreverence, and a lesser charge of false prophecy (and stupidity).
Fortunately for the show runners, this is only a literary crime and the Inquisition has no power to enforce redemption!
I'm not even a Tolkien expert, and I'm confident in saying he didn't "struggle" with that question. He answered it definitively: orcs are evil. Period. They were corrupted beyond any hope of redemption, and while that's tragic, it doesn't change the fact that they're EVIL.
Christian Bale was acting like his life depended on it as Gorr the God Butcher while Thor begged his axe not to be jealous and Jane Foster yelled "Eat my hammer!" mid-fight.
Marvel trapped an Oscar winner inside an SNL skit and wondered why Phase 4 fell off
The concept of Galadriel of the golden house of Finarfin, granddaughter of Finwe, who saw the light of the two trees IN Valinor, bearer of Nenya the ring of adamant, running? from a Nazgul?