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Here we go. Even on forums where the posters generally agree on most topics, I like to create polls that will be debated. First in the series, we deal with J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings', a much-popular fantasy setting in which several different species coexist (or don't) with humanity on a continent called 'Middle Earth'. One of these species - inspired from Northen European folklore - called the 'Elves' are slim, agile, long-eared creatures with unlimited natural lifespan - I hardly need to describe them. According to Tolkien, these creatures can succesfully interbreed with Humans, though it only happened 3 times in history, these stories are heavily promoted and popularized in his books(LotR and The Silmarils) in the forms of "heroic" inter-species love stories, e.g.: Aragorn and Arwen.
Now, it is obviously "just fantasy", but so is anything that comes out of Hollywood, regardless of the genre, these stories can have great impact on the targeted audience, especially if it's the youth, as in this case. Peter Jackson's famous and well-made movie of the same title further emphasized and heroized this love story and its meaning: your blood doesn't matter, your culture doesn't matter, your traditions don't matter, only love matters.
The paralels between this and real-life miscegenation are quite obvious, skin colour is meaningless in this context. And so is the agenda which it advances, love without responsibility towards one's own blood. If some people hold such stories in high regard as part of the Aryan culture, then we're rotten and doomed indeed.
What do you think? Elaborate your choices.
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