Responding to Lord of the Rings “HATE”... (LOTR vs Arcane)

#Netflix #Tolkien #Jinx Sauron is a big eye, his weapon is a piece of jewelry, elves and dwarves play a game with killing orcs, the big female empowerment moment is a wordplay joke -- how did a story so simplistic become so iconic and beloved? Compare this to character driven stories with morally gray villains and complex realistic female characters and trope subversions left and right, and how can a black and white fairyale like Lord of the Rings even compare? What this criticism is really getting at is a fundamental question of how stories explore morality in depth. With stories like Arcane, the answer is very clear: the story itself prompts the viewer with all kinds of complex moral questions. With stories like Lord of the Rings, the story presents no questions, but rather a grand moral picture. This dichotomy is often accompanied by a difference in emotional impact as well: nuance from breaking convention, and nuance from maximizing the subtleties of archetypes. Both stories are full of depth from