TFP
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Oct 28 2022, 8:37am
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Yeah, I'm not sure they need to go there much, really, especially if Poppy and hopefully-not-Gandalf really do go to Rhûn.
Regarding 'diversity' - as others have said, I think they've probably done away with any straightforward parallels between this ME and our world. The choice of 'Northern' English accents for Southlanders [despite Mordor really being in the Balkans or thereabouts] is probably as clear a signal of this as any other. Also as previously discussed the strange way that seemingly isolated communities maintain so much ethnic diversity. And e.g. even in Tolkien's books, Rohan is arguably too far South for the degree of Anglo Saxon influence to be an obvious choice. I suppose I'm saying there'd be no really strong need for the show makers to base Harad on Africa.
(This post was edited by TFP on Oct 28 2022, 8:46am)
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