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Magic the Gathering is releasing a Lord of the Rings set that features Aragorn as a black dude in the art and I'm just kind of popcorning and waiting for Those Fans to notice.
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a girl in love
EYYYY
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oh NICE
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i am so ready for the tears to flow
grodus maximus.
i love this??
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he looks so gorgeous
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Eowyn is also black
Platinum
Yeah.
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I didn't even notice at first because the preview image was so tiny.
Churby
Oh they already crying in some areas. Cry more punks.
Churby
(The art makes me want to see idris elba cosplaying Aragorn.)
Platinum
Idris Elba in a cape would be too powerful
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the next big lotr adaptation should just have zero white actors in it
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imagine the salt
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delicious
Rogal Dorn
I'm in a weird spot as Tolkien was pretty clear in his description of numenoreans from my recollections but I'm also open to reinterpretation
Rogal Dorn
And I tend to be a strict textual guy on this is got annoyed tom bombadil wasn't in the Peter Jackson movies (along with the barrow wights)
Mad Larkin
the Aragorn and Arwen card works really well in a preexisting +1/+1 counter deck I have, so I'm stoked (and he looks hot)
Rogal Dorn
So im.like weirdly glad that this card series remembers Tom exists
Mad Larkin
his card's really good, too! hard to play most of the time, but powerful and with good flavor
Platinum
I think the Numenoreans were basically just described as "Tall and long-lived", though I could be remembering wrong.
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The House of Hador is described as golden haired and fair-skinned with blue or green eyes and the House of Bëor as dark haired with grey or brown eyes and that's about as much description as we got from what I can find.
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so
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there's definitely space in there lol
Platinum
Even so, it's been a few thousand years and at least fifteen generations
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Oh hey
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Aragon is descended of the House of Bëor
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Platinum
I'm not disputing that, but where're you picking that chart up?
Friendpatine
yoooooo Aragorn???? he looks so good.
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House of Bëor
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Ah!
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I use Tolkien Gateway, and it doesn't have the pink/blue coding on the names
Platinum
So I was wondering, ahaha
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They've got 
for the abbreviated version and this whole thing for the full tree, but on looking at it, they start with Elros and make you go through two other ancestry charts to reach the House of Bëor.
for the abbreviated version and this whole thing for the full tree, but on looking at it, they start with Elros and make you go through two other ancestry charts to reach the House of Bëor.
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it's what JRR would have wanted
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(the extensive genealogy.
Platinum
Jirt was a stickler for the details.
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i think if jrr was alive today he would have conflicted feelings on reinterpretations of his work, but he also would not approve of people using his work as an excuse to be racist
Rogal Dorn
Extremely stickler yes
Rogal Dorn
He would correct people of they mispronounced celeborn
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like he was kind of racist himself but in a socially ingrained kind of way rather than being hateful
king
I've got a lot of feelings about this (that boil down to fuck yeah this aragorn and eowyn are fab designs and holy shit eowyn is gorgeous) but also: they could be taking WAY weirder liberties, it's a goddamn card game
king
they're including Tom Bombadil, someone finally included Tom Bombadil for the Bombadil stans, it happened
Platinum
Honestly, I'm just pleased that they're taking steps away from the Peter Jackson take.
Platinum
Like, all love to the LotR movies, they were fantastic
Platinum
But for a while it was like everyone was aping that style instead of coming up with their own stuff.
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yeah
king
agree
king
also
king
cynically
king
it's a good marketing move
king
they're getting discussion to happen
Shard
Oh, they've already noticed, Plat.
king
I don't think it's mean-spirited, it's not the same as Velma or the wizard game, but it's tapping into the same "we stir up controversy, we get free publicity"
king
and I'm like "go for it nice to see it not used for evil for once"
king
I've heard about this game from 3 different places now
king
and I don't give a shit about MTG
Platinum
I haven't played Magic since I was a kid.
king
the word of mouth marketing is working
Platinum
hasbro kinda needs it after all the good will they've pissed away
Shard
I'm pretty sure they're not that fussed about the people that they're annoying with these interpretations.
Churby
They really aren't. Like, mtg has made it very clear they do not stand with racism. And no one is harmed with what amounts to paid fanart.
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"Descendants of Numenor" is his caption
"Descendants of Numenor" is his caption
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OOoh
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he's fuckin rad as hell
andalite!
