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Black Aragorn in 'Lord of the Rings' Sparks Outrage: 'Hate This So Much'

The changing of a Lord of the Rings character's race from white to black in a collectible card game has sparked controversy online.

New artwork portraying Aragorn, a human character in the J. R. R. Tolkien high fantasy, in Magic: The Gathering released on social media on Sunday was met with both praise and outrage, with one user reacting: "I hate this so much."

Race-swapping characters have been the subject of controversy before. While advocates argue that such moves improve representation in popular works of fiction, critics argue that they are not true to the source material.


The issue of race-swapping characters is part of a wider debate about whether characters of minority groups should be played by actors who are not of those minorities. Some say minority actors—who have historically been overlooked—should be given those parts to improve representation in the arts, while others say actors should be able to portray any character well.

Though Aragorn has been portrayed as white in previous Lord of the Rings media, in the Magic: The Gathering artwork he is depicted as a black man with hair twists and a greying goatee beard.


"This is just race-baiting," Thomas Crown tweeted in response. "A publicity stunt in the worst taste."

"I find it hard to understand why would it be beneficial to take a 'Numenorean' (describes as fair-skinned) and turn it into another race," Federico Martani, an Italian artist, wrote. "Isn't it more empowering to have great characters that fit a 'race' and are proud of it, instead of taking well established ones and swap them?"

Aragorn is described in the books as of Numenorean descent, a fictitious group of people who were fair-skinned. However, in a letter, Tolkien wrote that Numenoreans were "best pictured in (say) Egyptian terms," though it is debated whether he meant in cultural or ethnic terms.

"This is a lovely piece of artwork. And while I never imagined Aragorn as black, Tolkien might well have," Matt Thrower, a gaming writer, said, citing Tolkien's letter.

"Gamer bros and dudes are willing to believe in orcs, trolls, wizards, talking trees, giant f****** owls but a black man in their fantasy? Shock horror!" one Twitter user wrote.

Another responded: "There's nothing wrong with a black guy in fantasy but there is something wrong with race swaps of established and clearly defined characters."


Newsweek approached Hasbro, Magic: The Gathering's parent company, via email for comment on Monday.

In The Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien describes Aragorn as having "a shaggy head of dark hair flecked with grey, and in a pale stern face a pair of keen grey eyes."

When the race swap first came to light, one Reddit user noted that Tolkien was a professor of Anglo-Saxon culture and a philologist—someone who studies language—who "constructed Lord of the Rings from his studies of ancient Anglo-Saxon and Gaelic folklore," which were based in the European tradition.


They also said "how wrong" it would be to make Black Panther, a Marvel character, white and claimed this was "an accurate analogy." The user added that they were happy with race and gender swaps "when it is done well."

According to Bounding Into Comics, Adam Styborski, a content manager for Wizards of the Coast, of which Magic: The Gathering is a subsidiary, said in 2022: "The Lord of the Rings is about the different peoples of Middle-earth coming together to fight Sauron, finding strength in their diversity. We want to make this appealing story fresh and relevant to an even wider audience."


It is not the first time a character's race has been swapped in popular culture. In the first Iron Man movie and subsequent Marvel films, Nick Fury was portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson, despite being white in the comics.

Perhaps the most controversial race swap was the decision by J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, to cast the character of Hermione as black for the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

While Rowling said when the casting of Noma Dumezweni in the role was announced in 2015 that "white skin was never specified" for the character in the books, fans have pointed to instances in the books where Hermione is described as having a "white face" and is illustrated as such on various front covers.



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The guys on oliphants were the Haradrim (in the movies they seemed Berber themed) and it would be wholly unsurprising if they were enslaving the darker skinned lads that live even further south.
They were. In Return of the King, during the battle of the Pelennor Fields, Tolkien makes a passing reference to a part of Mordor's forces consisting of half-trolls with black skin and red tongues.
 
Twitter and Reddit are not news. Nobody gives a shit about the LOTR card games.
All these fucking trash sites trawl reddit and twitter for stupid shit to write "articles" onnow

200 words about

"Reddit user [does something in Elden Ring that no one but the most obsessed retard Elden Ring dweebs would care about]"

"Twitter goes nuts over [something retarded]"

It's the most decadent degenerate shit I've ever seen. Scraping the absolute bottom of the barrel for contont
 
Twitter and Reddit are not news. Nobody gives a shit about the LOTR card games.
What about magicspoiler.com???
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And yes it goes on like that for a few pages. I'm sure tomorrow there will be more.

Oh and this is the card in question:
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(also I love the logic, "you're already accepting a world with elves and dragons" - Ok, then how about we imagine the world doesn't have blacks in it? Can you make that leap yourself?)
 
What about magicspoiler.com???
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And yes it goes on like that for a few pages. I'm sure tomorrow there will be more.

Oh and this is the card in question:
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(also I love the logic, "you're already accepting a world with elves and dragons" - Ok, then how about we imagine the world doesn't have blacks in it? Can you make that leap yourself?)
>User name: Kink Floyd

Where is a cinder block so I can bash that faggots head in. I fucking despise that logic of "Well why can't I just add niggers into a European fantasy without addressing it. There are dragons!" In fiction presented in the modern world it's whatever, you can add niggers to an urban and suburban setting and I don't blink. Rural you can have it, but there's a cultural difference between rural niggas and city niggas. If you make Amish people Black then you have to explain it.

I wouldn't even care if it was fan art where a black guy just made characters fit a different aesthetic. LoTR and the Hobbit are basically found folklore with the Red Book. There are numerous cases where a story is retold in another culture and details changed so it meshes. Cinderella is so fucking old we don't know if it's Greek, Persian, or Chinese and it's been transcribed to every fucking culture.
This is just jarring because it's slapping niggers in without care for the story.
 
What Christopher Tolkien should have done is split the estate among parties who hate each other. Israel and Iran, North and South Korea, Kiwi Farms and Trans Lifeline. You'd never get everyone to agree to make anything else again.
Tolkien sold the merchandising rights to LOTR sixty years ago. The Estate has no say in stuff like this. All they can do is sue if someone makes something not covered by that license, e.g.. slot machines.
 
All these fucking trash sites trawl reddit and twitter for stupid shit to write "articles" onnow

It's the most decadent degenerate shit I've ever seen. Scraping the absolute bottom of the barrel for contont
Wait until they start scraping ChinkTok for "news." Oh, wait I think they already are. *shudder*
 
"This is a lovely piece of artwork. And while I never imagined Aragorn as black, Tolkien might well have," Matt Thrower, a gaming writer, said, citing Tolkien's letter.
How about instead of speculating on what Tolkien might have imagined, based on generalised statements about an entire race, in a random letter, we look at the actual description in the actual fucking book itself huh?

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This is Rangs of Power and it's bearless nigger dwarf woman all over again.

Since I've already got my ebooks out I wanna address the Numenoreans = Egyptians bit, because despite what the author says we know exactly what Tolkien meant, because we have more context, like literally the next fucking sentence where he explains what he means:
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It's pretty clear he's talking about them being Egyptian culturally, leaving aside the inconvenient little fact that Ancient Egyptians weren't fucking black anyway.
 
How about instead of speculating on what Tolkien might have imagined, based on generalised statements about an entire race, in a random letter, we look at the actual description in the actual fucking book itself huh?

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This is Rangs of Power and it's bearless nigger dwarf woman all over again.

Since I've already got my ebooks out I wanna address the Numenoreans = Egyptians bit, because despite what the author says we know exactly what Tolkien meant, because we have more context, like literally the next fucking sentence where he explains what he means:
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It's pretty clear he's talking about them being Egyptian culturally, leaving aside the inconvenient little fact that Ancient Egyptians weren't fucking black anyway.
I unironically think some power has basically forced nigger worship onto these people. They basically have a unique form of self-hatred and racism that is only present in religious cults of old Empires. The only issue is that they basically will deny it. I recently watched some old George Carlin interviews and he literally can't get nigger dick out of his throat and keeps jerking off the idea of Darkie killing Whitey because of European Powers 'plundering the riches of Africa'.

I think the entire thing is basically bait. They want you to complain so that they can call you racist, but I unironically think that some people enjoy making all media into the same goyslop. All women have to basically be an American Coastal strong woman ideal and the men, will be emasculated in some way (unless they are gay or communist).
 
Cards that possibly, maybe depicted something that can loosely be defined as possible racism to only the most mentally ill = bad

race swapping a white character = good

And Tolkien was being called an aryan-supporting white supremecist only a few years ago.

lol, lmao even.
 
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