#GIVE MY NINE BILLION PERCENT MORE NON WHITE ELVES PLEASE

[malkaleh]

Hi I binged watched Rings of Power episodes 3-6 because I finally wrangled my brain. Disclaimer: I am The Tolkien Dork and like yes, do I have issues (not the diversity though if anything please increase the diversity)? Absolutely. But I’m also having a good time/a lot of feelings so that’s the part I’m going to talk about.  @nocompromise-noregrets @isagrimorie

It’s not that the actor who plays Elrond isn’t good (he is) it’s just I really really want a biracial actor to play Elrond, because they are doing this thing with biracial themes (Elrond Half-Elven*) and I, a biracial person want a biracial actor. Also look, I do not read fic for Tolkien and yet somehow I would read so much about Elrond and the experience(s) he has had as a mixed raced person. SO MUCH. I do also appreciate we are getting kind hearted Elrond here as well. 

Elrond and Tar-Miriel need to hang out and he needs to tell her about his twin and her ancestor like, I need that to happen. 

Is Halabrand actually going to end up as The Witch King rather than being Sauron? (I mean, still could be Sauron tbh. Could also just be a good guy). 

Tar-Miriel kind of knowing her fate, her people’s fate is…Something That Is Ow. 

Stabby!Galadriel is Stabby! (And awesome)

There’s definitely some lore dropping for Tolkien Nerds (aka me) that they mostly manage to do without like, directly referencing stuff that happens in The Silmarillion (which is possibly why we don’t get Kidnap Dads references? Yet?)

I love Disa SO MUCH. SO MUCH. 

What they’ve done with the orc origin story is fascinating and beautiful - because you know, Eru probably has a way for them to be brought back (the backstory is that some of the first Elves were taken and tortured and twisted and then just imbued with pain and hate All The Time by Morgoth - at least that’s one version Tolkien had)

*Elrond is actually ‘divine being/human/elven’ biracial.