The Hunt for Gollum is being criticised for its all-white cast. Blaming Tolkien is the wrong answer

The Lord of the Rings author’s debt to Norse mythology is simply irrelevant when it comes to the appearance of hobbits and elves on screen today Casting has come a long way since the early 1980s when it was somehow still acceptable to sign up Max von Sydow to play Ming the…

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