.... tumblr loves fancasting lupita nyong’o as luthien and i'm always just here like ...

like yeah she's gorgeous and all but luthien is specifically mentioned as being pale??

there's also a lot of asian fancasts which i can totally get behind it's not my personal fancast but i'd be down with it

but

like an au or racebent luthien she might do well as?? but no there's so many people who just fancast her as lu

which

okay i guess?

i dunno man it's just like tolkien is so vague in like 99/100 of his descriptions that you can pretty much do whatever the heck you want with most of them

with p much the entire world tbh

personally i'm rather fond of native american-esque silvan elves