[ SECRET POST #2210 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2210 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Not-OP

The problem I have with this argument as applied to the Hobbit movie is that in the Hobbit book, a bunch of the Dwarf characters had such miniscule roles that they've pretty much been written from scratch for the movie already. So if they'd wanted to go ahead and make one or two of them female (and I'm not saying that I would necessarily have wanted this), they could easily have done it from the get-go, without it having to have been a case of writing a female character by writing the character as male and just switching the gender. IDK if I'm expressing myself well but can you kind of see what I'm saying?

[(Anonymous)]

I see what you're saying.

Except for the slight problem that while we had very little said about the dwarves, it WAS stated that they were all male. So changing that about them would have changed one of the few things we did know.

[(Anonymous)]

But given how little else we know from the book about some of the characters aside from their being male, changing the gender of one or two of them would have been approximately on par, from a characterization angle, with giving Fili and Kili different hair colors when they were specifically described as having the same hair color in the book. Gender swapping a well-developed character is one thing, but gender swapping a character who exists in canon as little more than a name is something else and frankly just not that big a deal.

[(Anonymous)]

I think if you look at it in context it makes sense not to send any females. They have been kicked out of their kingdom probably lost many people in the process. The women are more important to carrying on the species than the males.

Also I'm going to go out on a limb and say Tolkien's son who is still alive wouldn't allow such a change.

[(Anonymous)]

Still playing devil's advocate because what the fuck. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that carrying on the species wouldn't have been an issue as far as gender-swapping a character like Dori, for example, unless we're meant to believe that Dwarf women are fertile for their entire adult lives.