english-history-trip reblogged
my mum was googling for an article about why everyone in the lord of the rings film is white (like to be clear she was annoyed by this) and the google ai was apparently like “everybody in the lord of the rings is not white. gandalf is grey.”
#genuinely sounds like some of the arguments racists make#do you know how long I had to argue with a guy once bc he was convinced Aragorn HAD to be white#bc there is one line when he is described as having a 'pale stern face'#like there are not fifty million more lines about Gondorians being 'dark'#lotr#nonsense