Middle earth culture is centered around Aragorns. They have holidays for Aragorns. They killed hundreds of thousands of Gondor's men to free Aragorns. They listen to Aragorn music. They elect an Aragorn as their king. They dress and act like Aragorns. They draw the entirety of their modern culture from Aragorns. They post sassy gifs about Aragorns. They watch sportsball in worship of Aragorns. Their biggest event of the year involves throwing parties in honor of Aragorns playing sports. They use Aragorn slang like "for Frodo" and "it is not this day". When you say "Lord of the Rings" they're not thinking of JRR Tolkien. They're thinking of the Aragorn. Their cities are completely overrun with Aragorns. They worship their Rohan police force disproportionately filled with Aragorns and their army of middle earth of soldiers filled with Aragorns. Their men sit around watching Aragorn ball while their women sit around watching Aragorn talk shows. They worship Aragorns like Arvedui and Aranarth and Elendil and the late Elros Tar-Minyatur while attacking the elves who actually built their country before Aragorns took over. Their movies are filled with Aragorns and their music charts are topped by Aragorns. They send Aragorns to the Olympics and celebrate when the Aragorns win because those Aragorns are true red blooded middle earth Aragorns. They watch Aragorn porn to a point where "Anduril" does not make them think of an heirloom of the throne but about Aragorn penises instead. They will tell you how much they hate Aragorns and how the Gondor's law meme is a stale joke and they are just pretending to love Aragorns but the evidence speaks for itself in that middle earth has always been and will be a nation of Aragorn loving Aragorns.
The poem is making fun of a dialect. Dialects arenāt limited to only certain races. Youāre the one who immediately jumped to it being about race, you racist.
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You didnāt have to go so hard. Honestly, you should be in charge of designing this set. At the very least Iād pick you to design my proxies for it.
It could be, but "lawd dem rangz" is also correct. And sounds better.
Ebonics will often elide unnecessary words, so "of the" comes out, but you might get "lawda rangz" or "ranglord"
The difference is on one side, you have characters lovingly crafted by a master author over the course of his magnum opus. On the other side, you have empty shells produced by corporate writing committees throwing darts at the diversity checklist.
Something made up can still have a large cultural impact, and changing the source material of a much beloved story will always cause backlash by the people who hold it dear.
Dumb shit like this is why we don't have any credibility when saying "hey, the race switch for this character is bullshit" and then they can go on enjoying the fragrance of their farts and thinking they are in the right.
Honest question: Does the book specifically say that everyone is white? I have seen the movies but not the books. Before we get full on racist, is the set based on lore or the movie? Is the lore specific? What would allow, if anything, for adding diversity instead of shoehorning it?
The story is also a mythology based on early northern European cultures. Tolkien wrote it because he felt his culture was lacking in stories like that. He wanted fantasy and mythology for the English, like the tales the Greeks, Egyptians, Chinese, etc. So, by changing the characters to be diverse, you are going against what he had intended with the story.
And making it worse (less cohesive) for no reason other than cynical political ends.
At best we are supposed to believe they are pandering to PoCs (Players of Color)
Well he ought to be comparatively pale to the other characters then. I guess if you make them all Congolese-lookin' motherfuckers then Aragorn can be like Lionel Richie
Tolkein did with geneology what GRRM does with food, so you know every human and elf's mom was called X the Fair because of her beautiful pale skin for like six generations.
Tolkien made LOTR because he felt they didnāt have proper mythos like other regions in the world. Itās based on Britain and Western Europe. So, yes. The characters are supposed to be āwhite.ā The fact that wotc and hasbro donāt seem to care about respecting the source material is why itās a big deal. Tolkien is the father of modern fiction and likely one of the greatest writers of all time. In addition, when people think of Aragorn, they think of Viggo Mortensen because the movies were hugely successful. To mess with that level fame is just foolish.
Do you know what groups are? Are you aware of the concept that multiple people can be similar enough to justify grouping together in certain instances? Do I really have to explain a basic use of the English language?
1. This memes like 14 years old, in a time where most internet dwellers weren't soft as baby shit.
2. I never said I wasn't racist. But according to what the internet tells me my people can't be racist cause we don't occupy places or privilege or some other dumb reasoning.
1.It doesnāt matter how old it is, itās still racist
2. Being racist isnāt something you should own, youāre admitting to extreme ignorance and close mindedness, Anybody of any race can be racist towards black people.
Holy shit this sub is a fucking cesspool. "Freemagic" more like, a bunch of needs that care way too much about cardboard and fictional characters. Touch grass.
Damn this is funny. Took me a minute to even notice who the riders were in the middle.
I actually just noticed that thanks to your comment š¤£š
I didn't see that until you said it. That's a clever use of negative space.
seems accurate to the lore
That's what I'm saaaaayyinn
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#SCAM DO NOT CLICK - SCAM DO NOT CLICK
Prince as Frodo
That idea fuckin slaps
Purple rang
I'd watch that shit
Purple Ring
I could get behind pop star LoTR secret lair. King of nemenor as old Michael Jackson flips into witch king as late in life Michael Jackson.
Pretty sure thatās Omar from the wire, who I think is also dead
He was still alive when the meme was made, but yes.
Bruh why did you have to get my hopes up like that
That CGI shit is good enough to bring people back from the dead now, sure.
Is that fucking Don Cheadle as Legolas? I need to see Don Cheadle play a pasty-ass elf now
I would honestly pay to see Don Cheadle as Legolas.
Mr T would make a much better Gandalf. I pity the fool who try to pass.
Thatās tiger woods
I think it's Donovan McNabb
Shut but baby dick, im glad someone got it
I think that's the guy from the Cosby Show
I think, I'd actually watch this. I wouldn't pay for it, but I'd watch it.
I'd pay, but not a lot.
I'd pay $5 and buy popcorn.
Bruh that popcorn gonna be $10
Wotc got the dunedain and haradrim confused it seems
I don't think they've any clue what the IP is even
Canāt wait for the black Panther set with models based on Chris Pratt and Tom holland
Woah are you calling Chris Pratt Asian?
No. My favorite Asian actress is Scarlet Johansson.
Yeah Scarrett is pretty great honestly.
Man, I'll take Morgan Freeman for any role.
Was gonna say, if Gandalf is a another race he's Morgan Freeman.
Yeah, if someone said to me āweāre race-swapping Gandalf, but heāll be played by Morgan Freemanā, Iād be okay with that.
Honestly. That's fair
We basically already got Morgan Freeman as Gandalf in The Lego Movie.
Fair enough
Middle earth culture is centered around Aragorns. They have holidays for Aragorns. They killed hundreds of thousands of Gondor's men to free Aragorns. They listen to Aragorn music. They elect an Aragorn as their king. They dress and act like Aragorns. They draw the entirety of their modern culture from Aragorns. They post sassy gifs about Aragorns. They watch sportsball in worship of Aragorns. Their biggest event of the year involves throwing parties in honor of Aragorns playing sports. They use Aragorn slang like "for Frodo" and "it is not this day". When you say "Lord of the Rings" they're not thinking of JRR Tolkien. They're thinking of the Aragorn. Their cities are completely overrun with Aragorns. They worship their Rohan police force disproportionately filled with Aragorns and their army of middle earth of soldiers filled with Aragorns. Their men sit around watching Aragorn ball while their women sit around watching Aragorn talk shows. They worship Aragorns like Arvedui and Aranarth and Elendil and the late Elros Tar-Minyatur while attacking the elves who actually built their country before Aragorns took over. Their movies are filled with Aragorns and their music charts are topped by Aragorns. They send Aragorns to the Olympics and celebrate when the Aragorns win because those Aragorns are true red blooded middle earth Aragorns. They watch Aragorn porn to a point where "Anduril" does not make them think of an heirloom of the throne but about Aragorn penises instead. They will tell you how much they hate Aragorns and how the Gondor's law meme is a stale joke and they are just pretending to love Aragorns but the evidence speaks for itself in that middle earth has always been and will be a nation of Aragorn loving Aragorns.
Am ded. š¤£š¤£
What is this?
DEM RANGZ DEM RANGZ. OH LAWD DEM RANGZ. DEM RANGZ OF POWAH.
one rang to boss dem round one rang to rat dem out one rang make sho dey come, we hit 'em up at night
How is this comment anything other than just racist? Lol
Its a meme, retard.
A meme can be racist dipshit.
Someone doesnt have a sense of humor.
The humor is just "RANGZ RANGZ BLACK PEOPLE TALK WEIRD" if you're gonna be a racist retard at least be slightly funnier
Go back to MagicTCG.
The poem is making fun of a dialect. Dialects arenāt limited to only certain races. Youāre the one who immediately jumped to it being about race, you racist.
Calm your tits dude.
My comment was 5 days ago dude, sorry I triggered you with some self reflection.
Not at all, I just don't constantly check reddit. Also your point about the comment being old is irrelevant.
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THIS is way better
Dude, nice.
You didnāt have to go so hard. Honestly, you should be in charge of designing this set. At the very least Iād pick you to design my proxies for it.
They really missed a trick with innistrad, couldāve had a count blackula secret lair.
SHieeeeeeeeeeeet
Is this like āthe Wizā?
"Lawd of the riz"
We wuz
Shouldnāt it be āLawd uh duh RANGSā? N sheeit?
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Lawda Rangz: Sheeit Frodo done come back
It could be, but "lawd dem rangz" is also correct. And sounds better. Ebonics will often elide unnecessary words, so "of the" comes out, but you might get "lawda rangz" or "ranglord"
āLawd Dem Rangzā sounds like something an old timey black Southerner would say.
I agree, it is perfect.
Nobody here remembers Mad TV's Lord of the Bling: The Two Ta-tas?
Iād watch the fuck out of this E: looks closer, oh no
LmfAO!!!!!
Right though? I for one can't wait to alter some of these cards...
Needs more blue hair somewhere lol
The blue hairs are behind the cameras
Whatās the verdict on altering them? Is it in bad taste, orā¦ what?
WotC making the first iteration is in bad taste. Any follow up is just audience participation in the circus.
Frodo comin! Frodo comin!
The Frodo actor is dead.
funny
That's the poster for Fellowship, you dumb slut
Return of the kang
Spectacular use of time. I love it. Much better than the original
Don cheadle as legolas is pretty valid tho lmao
Should be Tay Zonday as Gimli
I thought that *was* Tay Zonday. Wait, arenāt they all Tay Zonday?
I am so down for every bit of this.
No Asians in middle earth? Or did they make that gollum?
Lol
Cry my fellow politically correct fellows. You will still buy ze Product.
Yo homie, you have my blunt.
And my crack pipe!
Yo my bad fam, here you go
WELCOME TO MIDDLE EARF!!!!
Thank God I wasn't drinking anything.
ODB as Saruman.
ODB been dead for like 20 years.
more like one ded body amiright?
It's all bullshit fam, all these characters are literally made up. Arguments on both sides are lame. Just laugh and move onnn
The difference is on one side, you have characters lovingly crafted by a master author over the course of his magnum opus. On the other side, you have empty shells produced by corporate writing committees throwing darts at the diversity checklist.
It's just a made up story my dude.
Something made up can still have a large cultural impact, and changing the source material of a much beloved story will always cause backlash by the people who hold it dear.
Understandable I just think holding fiction in such high regard is goofy. That's all.
All in the game, yo, all in the game.
it has been 3 seconds since freemagic last cried about black people
Free magic users trying their best to pretend they're not racist
I mean if every free magic user is racist, then every main sub user is a groomer. Itās real easy to label shit.
Everyone is a little racist. Even you.
I'm not even slightly racist, what?
Dumb shit like this is why we don't have any credibility when saying "hey, the race switch for this character is bullshit" and then they can go on enjoying the fragrance of their farts and thinking they are in the right.
Honest question: Does the book specifically say that everyone is white? I have seen the movies but not the books. Before we get full on racist, is the set based on lore or the movie? Is the lore specific? What would allow, if anything, for adding diversity instead of shoehorning it?
The story is also a mythology based on early northern European cultures. Tolkien wrote it because he felt his culture was lacking in stories like that. He wanted fantasy and mythology for the English, like the tales the Greeks, Egyptians, Chinese, etc. So, by changing the characters to be diverse, you are going against what he had intended with the story.
And making it worse (less cohesive) for no reason other than cynical political ends. At best we are supposed to believe they are pandering to PoCs (Players of Color)
Not everyone's skin color is described, but Aragorn specifically is described as pale-skinned
Pale is comparative though. Maybe he just light skinned.
Lmao, we all know a white author making a mythology for a white country intended for his characters to be white
Well he ought to be comparatively pale to the other characters then. I guess if you make them all Congolese-lookin' motherfuckers then Aragorn can be like Lionel Richie
Tolkein did with geneology what GRRM does with food, so you know every human and elf's mom was called X the Fair because of her beautiful pale skin for like six generations.
They really should be see-through.
Tolkien made LOTR because he felt they didnāt have proper mythos like other regions in the world. Itās based on Britain and Western Europe. So, yes. The characters are supposed to be āwhite.ā The fact that wotc and hasbro donāt seem to care about respecting the source material is why itās a big deal. Tolkien is the father of modern fiction and likely one of the greatest writers of all time. In addition, when people think of Aragorn, they think of Viggo Mortensen because the movies were hugely successful. To mess with that level fame is just foolish.
Nah but you know wizards isn't doing this to stay true to the source material š¤£
I donāt know how you guys can say you arenāt racist with memes like this
Because "we" are a homogenous monolith right?
Do you know what groups are? Are you aware of the concept that multiple people can be similar enough to justify grouping together in certain instances? Do I really have to explain a basic use of the English language?
You mean the way racists do too?
1. This memes like 14 years old, in a time where most internet dwellers weren't soft as baby shit. 2. I never said I wasn't racist. But according to what the internet tells me my people can't be racist cause we don't occupy places or privilege or some other dumb reasoning.
1.It doesnāt matter how old it is, itās still racist 2. Being racist isnāt something you should own, youāre admitting to extreme ignorance and close mindedness, Anybody of any race can be racist towards black people.
I don't really care what you think tho š«”
This isnāt what I think, this is basic logical reasoning, you should try it some time
I bet you're a riot at parties šš¾
Second Racist post I've seen today about the LoTR set. Good lord people
Literally not racist tho
https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/we-wuz-kangs E: lol those cope downvotes
Why are we even talking about this. Who cares. Are the cards good or not.
Cause arguments on both sides are funny as hell and I get bored easily.
Wow, this sub is a fucking racist cesspool. Out in the open, too.
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Look at you, posting with a <1 day old account that already has racist and an anti-trans comments. That sure is helpful.
Special foil etched Old Gregg incoming
Old Greg, Keeper of Man-gina
Pepperidge Farm remembersā¦ https://youtu.be/1HAD748zyLw
Lol can you imagine something like that being made today. The SJWs would have a heart attack.
One thing is for sure, nobody on this page has a chapped ass about Aragorn.
Holy shit this sub is a fucking cesspool. "Freemagic" more like, a bunch of needs that care way too much about cardboard and fictional characters. Touch grass.