[ SECRET POST #2637 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2637 ⌋

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Comments

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I don't know what you mean by the "ton of edits" bit there. Do you mean the "fandom darling" you're alluding to constantly edits and re-edits to include more or less racial references? Because if it's just editing for clarity of story-telling, spelling and grammar, I don't see why it's relevant to the racial representation issue.

Now for the most part I actually have little problem with extra racial representation, but I do think there's a point where randomly dumping POCs in will end up looking ridiculous if it's one POC surrounded by a pile of white people.

To use your background image as an example: I can imagine some groups of Avari (Elves who refused to going to Valinor in the first place and thus never even managed to be parts of groups like the Nandor (Mirkwood and Lothlorien natives) or Sindar (Beleriand natives - Thranduil, Legolas, Celeborn and a high proportion of Rivendell, as well as Elrond being Sindar on his mother's side) being POC, but I have severe doubts - ones based on how Tolkien tended to describe the Eldar races - that any Noldor or Sindar Elves would be POC. Show me susch a fancasting? I will ask why the rest of the Elves of that race are not POC as well. Even then, a fancasting that makes Noldor and Sindar Elves POC, while cool, is just AU to me.

On the other hand I was quietly cheering when I noticed some of the crowd in the Lake Town scenes in DoS were POC, so even though PJ casts his Elves all white, he is not so strict with some human communities, like Lake Town.

Like I said, I don't mind POC representation, but I want some logical thinking to it. Does it fit the setting? Or will they stand out like a sore thumb? And don't start telling me "It's fantasy! If there's magic and dragons logic no longer applies!". That's just bullshit to get your way and have your one lone illogical POC in the middle of a crowd of dumb whiteys. One Smart POC in a crowd of dumb whites starts to seem like a Magical Negro to me, and others in this thread have said that's not a good trope.