Tag: awesome anons

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.

(Sorry so late!)

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.