Hobbit=Good=White. Everyone else, get in the Uruk-hai line.

Welcome, light-skinned people!

The movie The Hobbit is currently casting extras in New Zealand and there was a bit of a bump in the road recently.

A casting agent was trying to divide potential extra’s by the tone of their skin, with “light-skinned people” in the Hobbit line and, I presume, “dark-skinned people” in the Orc and Uruk-hai line. The casting agent was swiftly fired.

I could have been a good guy

Obviously, that was the right move and the casting agent should take some time to think about why that was wrong.

But in some respect, the agent was just trying to stay true to Tolkien’s world, a world he created where all the good people, the Hobbit’s, the Elves, the Wizard’s (unless corrupt), the humans (unless you’re Boromir), are white. Ocrs and Uruk-hai are evil and decidedly not white.

So don’t take it all out on the fired agent. Tolkien wasn’t very subtle either.

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