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Could you give some examples of when a main character is black or LGBT and the story doesn't make sense because of it?

It’s not specific to Netflix, in the Apple TV book adaptation series Foundation the 2 main characters where swapped from white men to black women for no apparent reason. In the upcoming Amazon LOTR adaption the dwarf queen is black but black dwarves are not a thing in the books.

But the story still makes sense, doesn't it? If anything it now makes more sense in Foundation, where there is famously almost no mention of women in the books despite them presumably making up half the population.

I googled dwarven skin colour in LOTR and apparently it's not mentioned in the books, so I don't see any problems with a black dwarf.

The problem with foundation wasn’t what you state. The problem is that they changed the story so much from the books that it doesn’t resemble them and they got the central theme exactly backwards.

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