It is one of those things where you have to educate yourself but before doing that you have to carve out the time and space to properly do that and we all do not have that time. I would be willing to believe it is just a coincidence but Ms. TERF has way too many blindspots for it to just be a harmless mistake each time.Farerb wrote:I think it's more of an individual feeling I guess and I don't want to invalidate anyone who feels that way. While I like Harry Potter, I'm not a Potter head or anything like that so I haven't looked into this myself. I know that there are many fans here and a lot of people went to the 20th Anniversary screenings.
In regards to Lord of the Rings, I have heard that the Dwarves are based on Jewish people, their language is inspired by Hebrew and their main motivation in the Hobbit is to reclaim their home.
Michael Eisner is definitely Jewish, you can read about it in his Wikipedia page, but also there are quotes from him mentioning his Judaism, and I agree that the reason why they turned down Prince of Egypt was probably because they didn't want to do a biblical story (people tend to be more sensitive when it comes to religion and they probably didn't want to offend anyone).

The dwarves are treated respectfully in LOTR so I guess that's not a terrible comparison. At least they are not the Orcs who have no redeeming factors. I never thought about that before cuz dwarfs are mythological German creatures (like everyone's favorite Seven Dwarfs) so I just assumed Tolkien's main emphasis came from that.
Oooh okay maybe I got him and Katzenberg mixed up and Katzenberg is not the Jewish one then. Or maybe they are both Jewish which makes it weird that I remember hearing Eisner say something rude about Katzenberg's Jewishness. But I guess if he is Jewish too, he can say it.