“The servants of the Dark Lord are the wizard Saruman, the nine Ringwraiths (former kings of men), the Orcs, and the Uruk-Hai.”
So… Orcs, and more orcs? And you forget the people of the Southern Nations.
"Saruman and the Ringwraiths are traitorous members of the races of the Fellowship.”
Well, Saruman is a cousin of the Balrog and definitely picked a side. But the Ringwraiths were taken against their will, IIRC.
“But who are the Orcs, the hideous, greedy, treacherous, squat, squabbling servants of the Dark Lord, who feast like maggots on the corpse of murdered nature, who swarm like cockroaches through the bowels of the Earth? They are Tolkien's equivalent of Wagner's Niebelungen, who are an allegorical representation of the Jews.”
Um, they’re elves. Elves taken by evil, forced to reproduce in the dark, tortured, and so on. Is it your contention that white people could be turned into Jews through brutality?
“And then there are the Uruk-Hai -- the tall, muscular, aggressive, stupid, black-skinned soldiers of the Dark Lord -- spawned and gestated in mud, and unleashed by Sauron and the Orcs to enslave and exterminate the fair races of the Fellowship.”
Wouldn’t they be elves, too? Just highly developed elves through exquisite brutality?
“As my companion and I drove away into the sprawling urban hell of Atlanta, I wondered aloud: "How can people watch a movie like that and then return to this without feeling profoundly alienated?”
It’s fiction.
And your projections aren’t in the film or the books.
"How can they see such magnificent natural landscapes and such beautiful, organic buildings -- and then feel at home in this tacky, plastic cityscape?”
I can’t afford Rivendell.
“How can they see such serious, noble, idealistic people -- and then watch 'Friends' and 'Will and Grace'?”
Serious people?
Galadriel: Let us take counsel with Celeborn, the wisest of elves.
Celeborn: Well, I think the first
Galadriel: Oh, shut up, Celeborn.
“How can they see such magnificent specimens of the White race -- and then contentedly rub elbows with Negroes, Mestizos, and Jews?"
We’re not boneheaded lip reading mouth gaping sister fucking racists?
“If more people took Tolkien's world to heart, this world would be finished.”
His fictional, pre WWI world, huh?
“Thus it is a veritable miracle that this movie was made in today's culture. The Orcs will surely recognize the threat it poses.”
Dude, you already got that message and it wasn’t even in the movie.
“ But there is nothing they can do now to prevent the rest of the trilogy from being made and released, for Peter Jackson made all three films at the same time!”
First off, that’s not how it works, and second off, that doesn’t prevent them. If there’s NO money in the first movie, the 2nd will not be released. They don’t throw money after bad. Mediocre, maybe. But if enough people had taken issue with Jackson’s portrayal of ANYTHING, they could have protested and made enough of a fuss that the studio would have washed their hands of it… And sold the rights to some other studio.