Just Gonna Say It: Diversity In Fantasy Shows Makes Them Way More Realistic, Not Less

I’ve recently developed a new Friday night ritual: after work, I sit down to watch the most recent episode of Amazon’s Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and spend the next hour shouting “slay!” at my laptop screen. My housemates can confirm. After six episodes, I’ve realised one of the reasons I love the show so much is its onscreen diversity — because unlike so many fantasy shows, The Rings of Power

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Both the Lord of the Rings movies and The Rings of Power are adaptations of a world created 70 years ago. 

To argue that one is more “realistic” than the other on the basis of its casting specifically is pure white supremacy. It implies all of these fictional creatures and story elements are somehow more easily conceivable than important Black characters.

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