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<blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 7727189" data-attributes="member: 40166">So when Ebert called North a &quot;unpleasant, contrived, artificial, cloying experience&quot;, he was wrong, because that's not what the author intended? Ebert called out a lot of movies for being problematic for some reason that the authors did not intend; it seems like your statement blows a hole in the whole idea of criticism.In any case, Tolkien isn't relevant here; Sean Bean was not in Tolkien's Lord of the Ring, he was in a much later cinematic adaptation. Even that was just a visual point for the discussion, which is about D&amp;D, and D&amp;D in 2017. Do you think my intention matters? Or is that only for Tolkien that intention matters in what he wrote, and not for us peons?If you're worried about real problems being ignored, then go work on them. I'm chatting on a discussion board just like you are.And I brought this up in the gentlest, lightest way I could; I certainly have not accused anyone here of being racist. Hyperbole certainly doesn't help the discussion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prosfilaes, post: 7727189, member: 40166"] So when Ebert called [i]North[/i] a "unpleasant, contrived, artificial, cloying experience", he was wrong, because that's not what the author intended? Ebert called out a lot of movies for being problematic for some reason that the authors did not intend; it seems like your statement blows a hole in the whole idea of criticism. In any case, Tolkien isn't relevant here; Sean Bean was not in Tolkien's [i]Lord of the Ring[/i], he was in a much later cinematic adaptation. Even that was just a visual point for the discussion, which is about D&D, and D&D in 2017. Do you think my intention matters? Or is that only for Tolkien that intention matters in what he wrote, and not for us peons? If you're worried about real problems being ignored, then go work on them. I'm chatting on a discussion board just like you are. And I brought this up in the gentlest, lightest way I could; I certainly have not accused anyone here of being racist. Hyperbole certainly doesn't help the discussion. [/QUOTE]

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