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.... tumblr loves fancasting lupita nyong’o as luthien and i'm always just here like ...
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like yeah she's gorgeous and all but luthien is specifically mentioned as being pale??
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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
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but
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like an au or racebent luthien she might do well as?? but no there's so many people who just fancast her as lu
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which
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okay i guess?
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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
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with p much the entire world tbh
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personally i'm rather fond of native american-esque silvan elves