The Hobbit – The Negrification of Middle Earth
By Max Musson: Having never read either J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ or ‘The Hobbit’, I cannot write as a great authority on this subject, but I am a fan of director Peter Jackson’s portrayal of these epic sagas in his recent films. An interesting aspect of the few criticisms ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy received was that there were no parts for non-Whites, and that the portrayal of evil characters…
The Lord of the Rings – What Peter Jackson Left Out
By Frederick Dixon: “Raise the Shire” said Merry “Now! Wake all our people! They hate all this, you can see: all of them except perhaps one or two rascals and a few fools that want to be important but don’t at all understand what is really going on. But Shire-folk have been so comfortable so long they don’t know what to do. They just want a match though, and they’ll go up in fire. The…