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I just wish there was an overly autistic explanation for the random niggers sprinkled in. Like, are they related to the Southrons from the Far Harad? How are they treated by people in Gondor, their ancestral enemies? What sort of families and clans do they come from? How do black dwarves fit in to all of this? Why doesn't the dwarf princess have a beard?
It just feels like they're going "there are now black people mixed in and its normal. deal with it." and that's not the fucking quality of writing I'd expect from LotR.
Look at how the Southrons were portrayed in the Jackson films. You had the lighter-skinned ones with more of a Persian/Arabic aesthetic alongside darker-skinned ones. That's the kind of casting choice that tells a story. None of this bullshit "well, why shouldn't he be black?" crap.
