Miyazaki does NOT hate Tolkien! Lord of the Rings comments explained!

I was starting to believe i was the only one who interpreted his quote that way. Happy to learn i am not alone.

I don't recall Indiana Jones killing people just willy-nilly or being disrespectful to other countries. Any killing he dose is always in self-defense or in defense of others.

The morality of the Orcs and if they had the capability for good and redemption was one of the questions Tolkien wrested with his entire life. As for the Orcs themself, their evil is the result of a massive cultural and generational trauma.

The thing is that he is wrong about Peter Jackson's films as well though, while it is a bit different Peter Jackson was a huge fan of LOTR and took a lot of care and consideration when making these movies to be as faithful as possible while keeping the same messages, I never felt in any way the the movies glorified violence, so either way I think he is wrong and at the very least didn't really understand the full meaning behind the movies themselves, one example is what you mentioned about Sam's line in the book, that exact line was given to Faramir in the movies.

I think he was talking about the films. I do think he is wrong tho. There are no enemy civilians shown in the films. And atleast the extended editions include the simpthising with the fallen haradrim scene.

They should cut Tolkien a break he fought in the trenches for four years, against peoples from the east, people he had no personal grudge against, but people never the less who wanted to kill him and did in fact kill most of his friends and peer's, and these were Europeans not people of colour. Seem's sitting behind a desk at the Guardian does not make you wise or knowledgeable, just biased and partial looking for fault where no fault exist's. And I might point that Mordor is more South East than East, and Isenguard is south west east and north of the free folk of Middle Earth. Seem's to me people over simplify and cherry pick to make their target fit the agenda that they have set. And we take these people far to seriously, let's face it who except Guardian readers take the Guardian seriously.

All orcs were not evil and all hobbits were not good. Elves and dwarfs were enemies, humans were all over the place. Tolkien’s world was far from black and white.

The vibe I got about the men on Sauron's side is that their cultures weren't inherently evil, and in fact had genuine grievances against the men who faught Sauron. After the war, they're still given independence and peace.

That Miyasaki guy should read the Silmarillion and Beren and Luthien firstly! 🙏💖

The Orcs are not referred to as 'slant-eyed'. There is a character who is referred to as 'squint-eyed'. This has nothing to do with having Asian-looking slanted eyes. This means that the character squints in the bright sunlight because he cannot stand the sunlight, because being part Orc, he is sensitive to Sunlight.

The issue is Miyazaki hates war so much he can't see things for what they are, being sometimes their evil people and good people, that's the story Tolkien was telling. Beyond that Tolkien was a WW1 vet, and Miyazaki is not a vet of any kind, so I'd trust Tolkien's perspective more.

Even if hes talking about the films hes talking nonsense. Non of the orcs killed in the movies were civilians.

I strongly disagree. Mostly beause there are no civilian orcs. So I dont see how LotR falls into that category.

Eh either way he was rather shallow about the movies. He makes great movies but that doesn't mean need to pretend he's not stuck up.

Sounds like Miyazaki Sama is a Tsundere for Tolkien and Lotr. Otherwise he wouldn't have based his two films Nausicca and Princess Mononoke on Lotr.

They've been calling Tolken racist since the 1960s

I think Miyazaki has a point. There is a big difference in theme between Tolkien's book and Jackson's films. In the films, The Two Towers is mostly about persuading reluctant leaders (Theoden, Treebeard) to go to war with Sauron, because only war can save Middle-Earth. They even made Helm's Deep a place for the Rohirrim to hide from Saruman, which makes zero sense if you look at the map. It works, in The Two Towers, but it's a major departure from the book. It crashes and burns in The Return of the King when Jackson has to make Denethor also a leader who has been dallying when he should have been warring, because the whole point of Denethor is that he believes -- like Jackson evidently does -- that only war can save Middle-Earth from Sauron, and this is a mistake, a mistake that ultimately costs Denethor his sanity, his kingdom, his life, and very nearly his son. War cannot save Middle-Earth as long as the Ring endures; it can only temporarily hold Sauron back.

That animated version of The Hobbit was my first exposure to Tolkien's work as I was too young to read at the time I saw it. It scared me so much I didn't pick up the book for years!

The painting of the west as good and east as bad, is fictional. It doesn't mean racism in any way in itself. You could just as well paint the south as good and north as bad, or the north-east as good and south-west as bad. That in itself has no implications as far as racism is concerned. There would have to be quite a bit more inflammatory material for a book or story to be racist.

I'm not hearing out a man (Miyazaki) who neglects his own son