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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 135 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a dagger that was made by elves, Galadriel.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 74 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please don't use the E word, thanks. The preferred nomenclature is 'Firstborn of Iluvatar'. DEFINITELY NOT 'pointy ears'

[–] The_Lopen@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 years ago

These knife-eared snowflakes get whinier and whinier

[–] Vegan_Joe@beehaw.org 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Elves made the sword in the first place...

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 16 points 2 years ago

Yeah and honestly that doesn't do much to silence the idea of racist origins funny enough.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Remember watching Fellowship as a teenager in 2001 (if you're a millennial) and thinking that Cate Blanchett was probably in her 50s? Yeah she was 31.

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I thought she was several thousand years old

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 4 points 2 years ago

Orcs aren't people and I'm not afraid to say it.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well I know who's next in line for a little chat.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't elves have a visceral hatred for orcs, what with them being originally elves brutally deformed and beaten into submission by Morgoth and all that ? If anything, most elves would like you a bit more for being racist towards orcs.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 0 points 2 years ago

Elves are super racist toward pretty much every other race.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 2 years ago

Whoa man. Keep those ideas back in the first age where they belong.

[–] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you suggesting that just because their ancestors were tortured beyond recognition that they are no longer worthy of basic rights?

That's definitely a hot take if I've ever seen one.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

More or less a central pillar of the Mormon Church racism.

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They absolutely are people. They clearly show intelligence and sapience. They may be people with morals that are opposed to the other species and they may be at war with them, but dehumanization (depersonization?) isn't the answer.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They are constructs, imitations of life, animated by the evil will of Morgoth and his foul apprentice Sauron. They're no more people than ChatGPT is people.