Race row after woman told she is 'too dark' to be a Hobbit

That's not fair, come on though I would not drop the racist card. I'm Paki myself and I wouldn't do it. I'd rather speak to whoever was in charge and ask him to reconsider.

Anyway, question:

Would James Bond still be James Bond if he was black or Asian?

I was once told I was too dark to play baby spice when my friends and I were playing Spice Girls.

Well, to be honest, the elves in LOTR are all white, blonde, well spoken and beautiful, kind of Aryan, whereas the Orcs are all black, working class commoners. Pattern?

Not necessarily adding anything to the thread but still..

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Although I don't necessarily agree with the casting team issuing an outright blanket ban on extras who are not pale-skinned, I find her comments so inane. It just seems that as she failed to meet the appearance requirements and didn't get what she wanted, she is dropping the racism card.

The film industry should be entitled to discriminate on the basis of appearance to reasonably cast appropriately for a role.

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Although I don't necessarily agree with the casting team issuing an outright blanket ban on extras who are not pale-skinned, I find her comments so inane. It just seems that as she failed to meet the appearance requirements and didn't get what she wanted, she is dropping the racism card.

The film industry should be entitled to discriminate on the basis of appearance to reasonably cast appropriately for a role.

I get where the casting guys are coming from because it is likely that Tolkien did imagine the Hobbits as White (due to the times/place he was living in) and also, as someone else has said they are meant to be an individual race so having one brown one amongst a group of white ones isn't exactly going to make sense.

On the other hand, i don't think many people would even notice if she was there, so it wouldn't have really caused any harm in casting her.

Overall though, i just think it's a non story and she's attention seeking. I've never been to an audition but i know they do specify what physical attributes they are looking for. If people are so anti racist, then surely specifying a certain skin colour should be no different to specifying a certain hair or eye colour.

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Although I don't necessarily agree with the casting team issuing an outright blanket ban on extras who are not pale-skinned, I find her comments so inane. It just seems that as she failed to meet the appearance requirements and didn't get what she wanted, she is dropping the racism card.

The film industry should be entitled to discriminate on the basis of appearance to reasonably cast appropriately for a role.

Nearly everyone in JRR Tolkien's books was white. That's just how it is.

I'm sick of all this political correctness. I'm sorry but but there was no non whites in the lord of the rings so why should the hobbit be any different. It is based on Europe.

I'm loving the idea of an obese, Asian Luna Lovegood. Swinging away at Wrackspurts with a huge flabby arm...

I'm so racist

How do you know this? Does he specifically state each characters skin colour in his fictional world?

It's behavior like this from film-makers, along with the narrow-minded comments by some on this thread, that make me sick.

She wasn't trying to be the main actor for goodness sakes, she was just a fan wanting to be an EXTRA in the background. Why the f*** do you have to be white for that! Where does it say that ALL hobbits are white. This is anti-PC bull****, which is worse than PC bull****.

Now I wish Bollywood would stop casting white actors/actresses in their films. Which they do by the way, and they never get stereotyped or kept out of film productions for their skin colour.

So much for the modern, forward-thinking Western world.