Watching the Fellowship movies again recently and it's pretty outrageous how there is literally just not any black people in them.
Outrageous!
Are these people really happy about the random token representation that modern movies like Frozen 2 have squeezed in? I'm curious how the Amazon show will handle it, but I hope that it goes beyond "there are all kinds of hobbits now" and actually integrates it into the narrative.
how would you integrate ethnic hobbits into the narrative beyond "there are all kinds of hobbits now" in a non-problematic way?
do you show racial tension between black hobbits and white hobbits, importing our world's issues into a fantasy one and subtly condoning them by implying blacks and whites can't get along in any universe?
do you make merry and pippin black, thus importing the problems of Michael Bay's "black" transformers, y'know, the comic relief has to be black?
do you have the council of elrond and now there's a new black elf and elrond is like "oh there is no way we're conducting this meeting without the wise council of Samuelle'ell Jacksonne, the darker skinned elves are well known for being the wisest of elves"