The Hobbit fires casting director for thinking only white people live in Middle Earth

In an unforeseen hiccup to an otherwise butter-smooth production thus far, a casting director has been fired from The Hobbit after placing ads in New Zealand newspapers specifically calling for actors with “light skin tones” and dismissing another actor by telling her she was “too dark” to appear in the film. Peter Jackson’s production company released a statement clarifying that the casting director had acted totally alone, and that it had never made any explicit specifications that they should only be auditioning white people. All it ever did was make three Lord Of The Rings films without any black people.