Posted on 05/30/2023 2:43:43 PM PDT by knighthawk
A furious dispute has erupted among fans of The Lord of the Rings over a decision to make the fictional character Aragorn black in a new collectible card game.
The new Aragorn will feature on a collectible card which will make up part of a series of Lord of the Rings-themed cards by Magic: The Gathering.
Artwork featuring the character was unveiled in a tweet on Monday from an account run by the franchise, which was released in 1993 and is now a subsidiary of Hasbro.
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If The Big Bang Theory was still in production, this would be a great story line for an episode. But unlikely to happen.
So, don’t buy the racist crappola!
When did this happen?
I get your point, but this racist crap is really out of hand.
It might be pissing off just geeks and nerds now, but what will you do when they cast Gator’s greats Don Shula or Steve Spurrier as black?
As long as they don’t get a black guy to play Tim Tebow.
Yeah, well what if they do?
Or Emmet Smith as an Asian?
They should get Dylan Mulvaney to play Colin Kaepernick.
Now that I would watch.
Sure, they are upset now, but wait until they try Aragorn’s new “Reparations” power in a real match. It allows them to appropriate 90% of the other player’s gold, on demand.
NBA 2K23 should change the players’ races for better White player representation. Keep the names, though. That’ll sell.
“Lord of the Rings fans up in arms over decision to change Aragorn’s race to black”
Great. Now do Tarzan, lord of the jungle.
Exactly. I read the Lord of the Rings and I don't remember the issue of the skin color of elves coming up once.
Maybe this will blast the $4T so-called debt limit deal off the front pages.
Once you go black Numenorean,
You never go back being whoragain!
Well Euro players are pretty much starting to take over the NBA anyway.
I’m waiting for the Shaka Zulu remake with Leo DiCaprio in the starring role.
In the 1997 “Spawn” movie, they raceswapped the character of Terry Fitzgerald, the black best friend of Al Simmons/Spawn by casting D.B Sweeney, a white actor. That’s just some food for thought.
Lady Arwen. Aragorn was such a lucky man to have her as his wife!
I seriously doubt Disney will ever remake Tarzan with a black actor! I mean, just imagine the uproar over a black man acting like an ape (and no, King Louie the ape from “The Jungle Book” was not racist given that he was voiced by Louis Prima, an Italian American and the monkeys were all voiced by white actors!).
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