So you know that scene in Two Towers at the battle for Helms Deep where that one elven dude is dying and it gets all serious and sad and stuff? Well, that would always piss Ben off so much. I remember after the movie came out he railed on and on about it, how it was super insulting because we just freakin met the character and then all the sudden we're supposed to feel a bunch of grief for him when he dies?
I'm watching Two Towers and I think I figured it out. We aren't supposed to be sad because he's an elf and he died when he didn't have to. We're sad because he's white. All the elves are white. All the good guys in the movie are white. There are no non-white actors in these movies. Except for maybe the bad guys. You never know. But it seems the orcs and goblins are the only beings with dark skin in middle earth. Or then the bad guys on giant elephants, wearing turbans.
An evil lives in the East.
Even more ironic it's called Two Towers. Kinda Hardee's, man.
Fuck, I wish I was playing Flux right now. I can't go back to Iowa this weekend.
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