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When watching Rings of Power, some human looked Caucasian, some looked like Asians, some like Africans, some like Aboriginals. I thought a fictional universe d
by DeathArrow 3y ago
When watching Rings of Power, some human looked Caucasian, some looked like Asians, some like Africans, some like Aboriginals.
I thought a fictional universe doesn't have the same human races as Earth, and also might be contrary to Tolkien's vie since Earth doesn't have hobbits, dwarves, elves, and orcs.
- msh 3y agoTolkien did have diffent human "races" in the books. Check the following link for a description of one of them: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Easterlings https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Easterlings
- ralfd 3y agoTolkiens Middle-Earth is though _our_ Earth. It is an instance of the "found manuscript conceit" with Tolkien just being the english translator of Bilbos writings. A copy of Bilbos manuscript (with later notes and additions by other scribes) survived until our time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_of_Westmarch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_of_Westmarch That backwater agrarian villages/hunter gathering tribes have the same diverse ethnicites as downtown Los Angeles is a different issue.
- pvaldes 3y agoEarth = terra, Middle = Medio Mediterranean middle earth is a borrowed concept
- veddox 3y agoYes, but it comes from Norse mythology, not Latin: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Midgard https://www.britannica.com/topic/Midgard As a scholar of early medieval literature, Tolkien borrows tons of ideas from the Edda and other mythological sources. (To give him his due, he masterfully reinterprets and combines what he „borrows“.)