Sir Lenny Henry, an actor in Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV series, recently made some comments about his role in a radio interview on the BBC, and they raise a lot of questions….

The article from which I pulled the transcript of Sir Lenny’s comments is here: https://bleedingcool.com/tv/sir-lenny-henry-on-being-a-black-hobbit-in-the-lord-of-the-rings/

The full interview is here with his relevant remarks (not accurately transcribed but sufficiently similar) starting at about the 29:20 mark: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0010fk3

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