Hey, the anon who sent the message about Tolkien fandom here. Clarifying that I got called an SJW for bringing up implications like the anti-semitism, so it was calling someone an SJW for bringing up social issues. Even mentioning it in a nice way has caused trouble if one doesn’t agree with Tolkien. I’ve seen people criticize the movies because they wanted Thorin to be just greedy like the book intended, but criticizing the intent was called SJW. Hope that clears it up a bit.

Yes, thank you for clarifying! I’m sorry people flew off the handle at you for calling out something legitimate. The anti-Semitism is really fucking gross, and Peter Jackson got a lot of things wrong, but humanizing (Dwarfenizing?) Thorin was not one of them.

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