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Post by Cyno on Jul 23, 2019 17:03:30 GMT -5
Jesus Christ, Joanne.
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chrom
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Post by chrom on Jul 23, 2019 17:13:51 GMT -5
Let's just be glad Tolkien isn't around to make asinine changes to The Lord of The Rings like she, Martin and others have with their works. You're talking about the guy who literally rewrote an entire chapter of the Hobbit to make it fit in with Lord of the Rings. The change he made with Bilbo finding The Ring instead of the original with Gollum giving it to him after the Riddle game benefited the story. Nothing I've seen Rowlings change has done anything except cause eyerolls.
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EyeofTyr
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Post by EyeofTyr on Jul 23, 2019 20:59:26 GMT -5
It probably started the day she said "Dumbledore? Totally gay. It's there if you look for it. No it's not just something I made up off the top of my head 5 minutes ago shut up." Dude, that was fairly obvious, at least in the books. When she came out and said it, a lot of us were like, "Yeah, you kind of said that on the pages already." I wouldn't say it's fairly obvious prior to that statement by her. Maybe to you, not to everyone though. For me once the topic of Grindelwald came into the picture I did have a flicker of "Hm. Is Dumbledore gay/bi/pan?" The question didn't really matter to me much though ultimately. It's subtle and small enough that one could've easily hand waved it away or (as a lot of people did online prior to the announcement) chalk it up to crazy fanboy/girl shipping when some fans would suggest the pairing were a thing.
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Post by eJm on Jul 24, 2019 3:31:10 GMT -5
Yeah, I was waiting for this to be brought up. The stuff with the American version of the Ministry of Magic and stuff involving Native Americans was my first moment of being really wary but I could chalk that up to cultural ignorance and that it was more the fault of the people who approved it and not holding her to account. That, though? Jumped off the JK train pretty quickly.
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Nr1Humanoid
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Jul 24, 2019 3:33:53 GMT -5
Dumbledore and Voldemort; a magical XXX Parody.
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Dr. T is an alien
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jul 24, 2019 6:49:22 GMT -5
You're talking about the guy who literally rewrote an entire chapter of the Hobbit to make it fit in with Lord of the Rings. The change he made with Bilbo finding The Ring instead of the original with Gollum giving it to him after the Riddle game benefited the story. Nothing I've seen Rowlings change has done anything except cause eyerolls.
Except everything I have seen Rowling say isn't changing things so much as adding more content, regardless of whether it is worth it or not.
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