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| AngelsNAirwav3s 09/08/22 2:02:06 PM #5: | AP3Brain posted... Hobbits, Orcs, Elves, Dwarves, etc are different species; not races. And there should be no surprise that there would be different variations within those species (that would include dark skin). Not quite true. You can't really use traditional evolutionary biology when looking at Middle Earth since everything was created by gods, but Tolkien never says they are different species, and elves/dwarves/hobbits/humans/orcs have no genetic problems interbreeding with each other. Similar to different breeds of dogs I would say. As far as character skin colors go, I don't have a problem w/ multi racial elves in the show, you can just say Eru made them that way and they are immortal. There are also darker skinned humans in the lore. I can see the argument for a clan of dwarves all living together under the same mountain for thousands of years, they should all look very similar by now, even if they started off as all different skin colors. In a tv show though my concern w/ the skin color is pretty much 0 when compared to the talent of the actors that are cast. Complaining about a character not having a lore accurate appearance always seemed dumb to me. --- Hello world! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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