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Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by titzer on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:46AM (#31987549)
> I’m still amazed that people keep torturing stories made at different eras with different mentalities to try and promote today’s philosophy instead of coming with original materials.

Been happening since forever. Jesus was a dark-skinned Middle-easterner. It's funny that in nearly every story over the world of people who have claimed to seen Jesus in a miracle, he appears as their own race!

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Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by rglullis on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:22AM (#31988502)
There is a difference between making projections of mythical, transcendental figures and outright retconning a character just to support a certain narrative.

We can not prove anything about Christ's appearance and Christian values do not change based on that. So it's only natural that people will represent Him as they are used to see their own people.

It is a whole other game to change the description of a character with a well-established description and a set context.

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