On January 16, 2020, Christopher Tolkien died. With him, died any hope to prevent the degradation of his father's legacy.
So strong was Christopher in the defense of J.R.R. Tolkien's English fairy tale, The Lord of the Rings, that he even disowned his own son over the making of the Peter Jackson films (which he wasn't fond of).
But now he's gone. And the Shadow falls.
Within 3 months, a rumor spread that Amazon fired the writing staff of the upcoming LOTR TV series as well as Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey.
Shippey gave a kind of warning of the amount of control Amazon was given.
“Amazon has a relatively free hand when it comes to adding something, since, as I said, very few details are known about this time span. The Tolkien Estate will insist that the main shape of the Second Age is not altered. Sauron invades Eriador, is forced back by a Númenorean expedition, is returns to Númenor. There he corrupts the Númenoreans and seduces them to break the ban of the Valar. All this, the course of history, must remain the same. But you can add new characters and ask a lot of questions, like: What has Sauron done in the meantime? Where was he after Morgoth was defeated? Theoretically, Amazon can answer these questions by inventing the answers, since Tolkien did not describe it. But it must not contradict anything which Tolkien did say. That’s what Amazon has to watch out for. It must be canonical, it is impossible to change the boundaries which Tolkien has created, it is necessary to remain “tolkienian”.”
As the months wore on, more tidbits about the cast and crew came to light which showed the hand of woke at play.
Black Hobbits.
Sir Lenny Henry did interviews where he discussed his being cast as a niggerlet in an ENGLISH FANTASY.
"For the last two years I've been working on Lord Of The Rings and it's an extraordinary thing, it's the biggest television show that's ever been made, in terms of money and head count. Literally, a hundred people on set glaring at you and trying to work out what you'll look like four feet tall… I'm a Harfoot, because JRR Tolkien, who was also from Birmingham, suddenly there were black hobbits, I'm a black hobbit, it's brilliant, and what's notable about this run of the books, its a prequel to the age that we've seen in the films, its about the early days of the Shire and Tolkien's environment, so we're an indigenous population of Harfoots, we're hobbits but we're called Harfoots, we're multi-cultural, we're a tribe not a race, so we're black, asian and brown, even Maori types within it. It's a brand new set of adventures that seed some of the origins of different characters and it's going to take at least ten years to tell the story. Because it's based on the Silmarillion which was almost like a cheat sheet for what happens next in this world in the second and third ages. And the writers have a lot of fun in extrapolating it all out, and it's going to be very exciting. There's a very strong female presence in this, there's going to be female heroes in this evocation of the story, they're going to be little people as usual."
It appears the niggers in Shadows of War were only the tip of the spear.
The article ends with the usual shot at anyone who might complain about blackwashing.
And just before the usual folk kick-off, Tolkien, describing Harfoots in the Lord Of The Rings, stated that "they were browner of skin" and also "they moved westward early" which may be seen as why Harfoots were absent in the films so far.
Gather your source materials, free folk of the West. Gather them before they are amended so as to fool the eyes of future generations.
Teach your children well.
These are dark times.
Archive Links:
https://archive.ph/AqIEf - Sir Lenny Henry On Being A Black Hobbit In The Lord Of The Rings
https://archive.is/cV9pp - French language article where Christopher Tolkien derides the Jackson trilogy as "gutted".
https://archive.is/Usflm - Amazon Studios | Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
https://archive.is/yYy50 - Amazon Studios Sets Inclusion Policy And Playbook For Its Content And Productions
https://archive.is/lD1w9 - Rumor: Amazon’s Lord of The Rings Fires Entire Writing Staff – Season 1 Put On Hiatus
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