The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™

[Wizard Lizard]

This has to do with purposely ignoring Tolkien's word to pander to 'modern audiences'. It has female dwarves & non-white dwarves. Most horrific of all, it has beardless dwarves.
While female dwarves technically aren't wrong, them being able to be identified as such is!

no Man nor Elf has ever seen a beardless Dwarf- unless he were shaven in mockery, and would then be more like to die of shame
[…]
For the Naugrim[Elf word for dwarves] have beards from the beginning of their lives, male and female alike; nor indeed can their womenkind be discerned by those of other race, be it in feature or in gait or in voice

The War of the Jewels, from JRR Tolkien's unpublished manuscripts which were edited and published by Christopher Tolkien.

They are in voice and appearance, and in garb if they must go on a journey, so like to the dwarf-men that the eyes and ears of other peoples cannot tell them apart.

Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, Durin's Folk

With regard to non-white dwarves, I don't think I need to expand on this by saying that Tolkien wouldn't have imagined dwarves as being black. If you want to get technical, Tolkien's dwarves were heavily inspired by Jews according to Tolkien himself. 20 years ago, nobody would have made the dwarves black, and it's something added just to make the game more "diverse".

[› Furin]

Thanks! I've added this game as not recommended.

Sad to see the continued desecration of Tolkien's work.

For those that don't know, there's also a game with "diverse" hobbits in the works:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2016460/Tales_of_the_Shire_A_The_Lord_of_The_Rings_Game/

(I've already added it to our list)

[RayoSombrio]

No mods to fix the issue yet...
I really hate to play with forced diversity.

[Shadow the Edgehog]

>Tolkien's dwarves were heavily inspired by Jews
lmao

[Wizard Lizard]

Originally posted by Shadow the Edgehog:

>Tolkien's dwarves were heavily inspired by Jews
lmao

It's true.

This is an actual quote from Tolkien, btw.

The dwarves of course are quite obviously, wouldn’t you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic, obviously, constructed to be Semitic.

[Ghannon]

Originally posted by Wizard Lizard:

Originally posted by Shadow the Edgehog:

>Tolkien's dwarves were heavily inspired by Jews
lmao

It's true.

This is an actual quote from Tolkien, btw.

The dwarves of course are quite obviously, wouldn’t you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic, obviously, constructed to be Semitic.

Ironically, Tolkien was sympathetic to Jews, which is not evident by the fact that he apparently thought Jewish women looked like men. Although, Tolkien was not a fan of allegory, so it was likely more of an accident.


Thank God Tolkien lived in the time he did; otherwise, The Lord of the Rings might have been very liberal and anti-white.

[H-Foundry PIXIV]

Originally posted by › Furin:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2016460/Tales_of_the_Shire_A_The_Lord_of_The_Rings_Game/

(I've already added it to our list)

Funny that Tales of the Shire doesn't even have a thread on it, so extra happy it's on 'the list' beforehand.

The diverse hobbits is explained a lot by the developer, someone on the dev team went full on-the-offense with very controversial comments, as bad as Matt Hansen, when no one asked. These ideologues can't help exposing themselves to the world, but we know this. I guess it's lashing out at them seeing they're losing and knowing they're not the majority, just propped up by the democrats and monied interests.

7:26
https://youtu.be/tDS8ib6wcc4?si=DFbBHSvgayOrDv3O&t=440