Re: [閒聊] 亞馬遜魔戒獸人變白人啦~~~~~~~~~

※ 引述《kimisawa (楊回血了。)》之銘言：
: 亞馬遜公布了獸人的造型
: https://i.imgur.com/ZoKatBI.png

半獸人的來源，我查英文維基，

其實有寫托爾金對半獸人外貌、生態有很詳實的描述。

Tolkien proposed several semi-contradictory theories for the origins of orcs.In The Tale of Tinúviel, Orcs originate as "foul broodlings of Melkor who
fared abroad doing his evil work".In The Silmarillion, Orcs are East
Elves (Avari) enslaved, tortured, and bred by Morgoth (as Melkor became
known);they "multiplied" like Elves and Men. Tolkien stated in a 1962
letter to a Mrs. Munsby that Orc-females must have existed.[18] In The Fall
of Gondolin Morgoth made them of slime by sorcery, "bred from the heats and
slimes of the earth". Or, they were "beasts of humanized shape",
possibly, Tolkien wrote, Elves mated with beasts, and later Men. Or
again, Tolkien noted, they could have been fallen Maiar, perhaps a kind
called Boldog, like lesser Balrogs; or corrupted Men.

Half-orcs appear in The Lord of the Rings, created by interbreeding of Orcs
and Men;[T 12] they were able to go in sunlight.[T 7] The "sly Southerner" inThe Fellowship of the Ring looks "more than half like a goblin";
similar but more orc-like hybrids appear in The Two Towers "man-high, but
with goblin-faces, sallow, leering, squint-eyed."

托爾金對獸人的起源提出了幾個半矛盾的理論。在 Tinúviel 的故事中，獸人起源於“
在國外從事邪惡工作的米爾寇的邪惡後代”。 在精靈寶鑽中，獸人是被魔苟斯奴役
、折磨和培育的東精靈（阿瓦里）（米爾寇成為已知）；[T 9] 他們像精靈和人類一樣“繁殖”。托爾金在 1962 年給曼斯比夫人的一封信中說，獸人女性一定存在過。在
Gondolin Morgoth 的隕落中，魔苟斯通過魔法使它們變成了粘液，“從地球的高溫和粘
液中培育出來”。或者，它們是“人性化的野獸”，托爾金寫道，精靈與野獸交
配， 或者再一次，托爾金指出，他們可能是墮落的 Maiar，也許是一種叫做
Boldog 的物種，就像較小的炎魔一樣；或墮落的人。

半獸人出現在《指環王》中，由半獸人和人類雜交創造; 他們能夠在陽光下行走
。魔戒中的“狡猾的南方人”看起來“比半像妖精”；[T 13] 類似但更像獸人的
混血兒出現在《兩座塔樓》中，“人高，但有著妖精的臉，臉色蠟黃，斜視，瞇眼。”

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實際上這一段描寫得很像蒙古人。

而實際上，托爾金在私人信件上有寫過對半獸人的描述。

"squat, broad, flat-nosed, sallow-skinned, with wide mouths and slant eyes: infact degraded and repulsive versions of the (to Europeans) least lovely
Mongol-types."

矮胖的、寬的、扁平的鼻子、淺黃色的皮膚、大嘴巴和斜眼：實際上是（對歐洲人來說）最不可愛的蒙古人的退化和令人厭惡的版本。

簡單的說就是托爾金把魔戒當成歐洲人起源神話寫，

而蒙古人因入侵歐洲(黃禍)，所以他直接把蒙古人形象拿來當半獸人素材。

所以半獸人應該不是白皮膚的，

而是該長得像亞洲人、黃色膚。

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