How do you feel about Tolkien fandom? I never really felt welcome in it. I remember talking on livejournal about the Hobbit movies and people were mad because the elves were supposed to be above going to war over gold, but when I said I hated the reading of dwarves just being greedy and the portrayal of Thorin’s goldsickness I got called an SJW. It feels you’re not allowed to disagree with the text, you can complain about the movies but not the books.

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OK, so. I’m not the best person to sympathize with over being called an SJW, because I disagree with a lot of so-called SJW ideology and methods (still very liberal, though!). However, you are 100% right. Both the movies and the books should be open to criticism, including the gross anti-Semitism. I mean, everything except for “MY HEADCANON SHOULD BE CANON AND YOU SUCK IF YOU DON’T THINK SO!” is fair game.

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