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#but actually! being carefree and paternalistic around the little people that you’ve come there to rule and steward
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#coming back to it I don’t think I was actually clear enough
#if people are looking at the sequence of the petty live in nargothrond -> finrod the relative of their ancient slayers shows up ->
#they work together until mim tries to kill him -> the petty are exiled from nargothrond
#and think to themselves. hey. it’s actually fucked up and unsatisfactory that the only textual information given
#is a bunch of antisemitic canards abt dwarves and their untrustworthiness
#so I’m going to write a thingy exploring what maybe happened in nargothrond to prompt essentially a random dude to attempt demigod murder
#… it’s actually Bad !! to say. hmm no the canon explanation that mim was duplicitous and wicked is actually fine.
#if you don’t vibe with the theory made you don’t vibe and that’s fine
#but actually! being carefree and paternalistic around the little people that you’ve come there to rule and steward
#is not an indicator that things … aren’t fucked up. or that there isn’t a sort of *civilizing* (deliberate word) colonialism going on.
#and I’m gonna be honest there’s more to genocide than overt violence and forced expulsion is. actually connected to it.
#no I’m not going to lean extremely hard on any one particular real world event of this nature
#to draw up a *these are the good guys and these are the bad guys in this allegory*
#because I think it’s distasteful and disrespectful to use real histories as a fandom fighting prop
#but when you deliberately read the nicest sentiments into a pretty vague and concerning passage
#and then use that as a canon justification
#that’s crummy
#there is a difference between using someone else’s trauma as your fandom weapon
#and bringing up the fact that the author is utilizing the rhetorical tools of colonialism (maybe even unintentionally!)
#that the readership is lapping up (because they also haven’t considered how deeply some of this is embedded in the modern paradigm)
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