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Neil Randall

@nrandall

Games Institute director; IMMERSe project director

 Waterloo ON
uwaterloo.ca/games-institute
Joined January 2009
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Definitely worth reading if you examine the depiction of cultures in games, especially the idea of colonial acquisition and its costs. As noted, the argument that games are apolitical activies about escapism doesn't cut it. indiginews.com/vancouver-isl…
Not ‘just a game’: World of board games faces reckoning for colonial themes - Indiginews

Not ‘just a game’: World of board games faces reckoning for colonial themes - Indiginews

As the board game industry expands and becomes more elaborate, many players and creators are starting to recognize the exploitative undercurrents in classic games — and are finding ways to diversify

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Here’s the @ConversationUK piece I co-wrote with @MarianaRiosMal1, debunking the backlash against the diverse casting in @LOTRonPrime theconversation.com/lord-of-… @UofGFantasy @TolkienSociety @theoneringnet @TolkienGuide #Tolkien #RingsOfPower #LOTRonPrime @jowrotethis – at Glasgow, Scotland
Lord of the Rings: debunking the backlash against non-white actors in Amazon’s new adaption

Lord of the Rings: debunking the backlash against non-white actors in Amazon’s new adaption

Adaptations are original cultural entities that can imitate, question, re-write, or reinterpret their source material for new audiences.

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Wow. Just watched a youtube video that stated that fans are upset because Amazon aren't trying to keep with the Peter Jackson version of Middle-Earth and therefore aren't trying to keep with Tolkien either. When the hell did Jackson's work get seen as somehow ...
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... Tolkienesque? It's not - it never has been. It has some good stuff in it, and some stuff that does Tolkien well. But it's far, far from Tolkienesque. Lesson: Just because you grew up with a movie and loved it doesn't mean it's an excellent adaptation of a novel.
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This is well done - youtube.com/watch?v=36lviVvo… - I disagree with it strongly, but it's well done. Basically, it points to the problem with fidelity in adaptation studies. What Just Some Guy is telling is, as so many are now telling us, is that deviation form the source is not only
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for that medium, and that time, and that audience. Otherwise, it's an exercise in pandering to the idea that the author had only one way to tell it. And as any author knows, that just isn't the case. At any rate, I expect a lot of these kinds of predictive damnings of ...
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the Rings of Power show, and I also expect that many will be right. That is, as long as you're expecting fidelity. Me, I'd love fidelity - I still wish Jackson had done many things differently. But stories are stories, and they are told by tellers who are never the same.
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autocorrect = autosurprise
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A good week for Tolkien fans. Not only do we have the first real information (and trailer) for the Rings of Power show, we now get news that an anime about Helm Hammerhand is on its way in April 2024 - variety.com/2022/film/news/l…
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but it's entirely possible we'll get that either via flashbacks or, ideally if this works out, a future film. It seems entirely possible that New Line and Warner might see this film as the starting point for a series of Rohirrim animations (no, I've heard nothing about any such
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thing, and there's an entire world there, not much explored even by Tolkien. It would also extend into the Fourth Age, as we know from the LOTR appendices and Aragorn and Eomer had plenty of military adventures after the Ring was destroyed. But let's see what they do with Helm.
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