>https://www.darkertimes.com/white-vampires/>When Andy Serkis said that Hobbits are scared of Black people, it made a certain kind of sense.>(etc.)>Despite this, Serkis’ response to the BBC’s question was telling. He defended his choice of an all-white cast, stating simply that “The Shire feels very, very much like a very, a very white, you know …”>I’m not sure we do know. Then again, we all can guess. He also stated that Tolkien was inspired by the Nordic histories (often a code phrase for: the absolute whitest!), and that while canonically Hobbits care very little about the world outside of their homeland, they certainly don’t want people coming in. He even acknowledged the impending criticism while simultaneously making it clear that he isn’t planning on casting any actors of color, equivocating doing so to creating a “politically correct just-casting-for-the sake-of-casting-and-ticking-boxes version of the film.”>It’s not that Hobbiton is racist. It’s just that it doesn’t want dangerous outsiders. Despite the fact that this is a fantasy world in which the denizens of Hobbiton can be played by actors of any human race as long as they are filmed using forced perspective while wearing hairy feet, the real-world racist fear of ethnic infiltration is taken for granted as a legitimate concern, even in a universe in which this makes no sense. You can go into the writer’s intentions, the cultural context he lived in, the demographic limitations of the time and so on, but the fact remains that in 2026, Middle-Earth films contain talking trees, giant spiders, and faceless villains who live for thousands of years. Being non-white seems like an incredibly minor concern.(They also go into Sinners commentary)
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