I don’t want any more movie adaptations of The Lord of the Rings<\/i>. While I’m sure some of the visual effects will be stunning, they’re just going to mess it up. <\/p>\n
Some fans have signed a petition begging Amazon to keep nudity out of their upcoming Tolkien series.<\/a> <\/p>\n I agree with that, but nudity is hardly the biggest threat. I already see articles about how Merry and Pippin or Frodo and Sam were a couple. The odds are good this new rendition will include some completely gratuitous wokeness. (Between the two, I’d prefer gratuitous nudity, but I’d rather have neither.) <\/p>\n This past weekend, the Tolkien Society, one of the oldest of the Tolkien fan groups, hosted its annual seminar in which members present papers on their research and analysis of the author\u2019s body of work. This year, the theme was diversity. [Of course it was.] <\/p>\n \u201cSpurred by recent interpretations of Tolkien\u2019s creations and the cast list of the upcoming Amazon show The Lord of the Rings,<\/i> it is crucial we discuss the theme of diversity in relation to Tolkien,\u201d the seminar\u2019s organizers wrote in a call for papers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I am sick to death of this diversity BS, and I don’t want a bunch of movie makers stuffing their woke ideologies into Middle Earth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t want any more movie adaptations of The Lord of the Rings. While I’m sure some of the visual effects will be stunning, they’re just going to mess it up. Some fans have signed a petition begging Amazon to keep nudity out of their upcoming Tolkien series. I agree with that, but nudity is … Continue reading “What’s worse, naked elves or woke elves?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}