Hollywood hobbits model Elvish "You All Are Welcome Here" clothes
Following racist reaction to The Rings Of Power's casting, The Lord Of The Rings' hobbits tweet themselves in inclusive apparel

It’s the year 2022 and a reliably maggot-ous core of our numbskull culture has stirred itself into a frenzy about the indignities of seeing Black elves and women who are good with swords on television. Because these kinds of people are, if nothing else, very good at being loud, the internet has been filled with complaints about people of color donning elf ears and hairy hobbit feet for The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power—an apparent affront to the “not-racist” viewers’ pleas for, uh, “accurate” all-white casts in 21st-century fantasy TV.
While The Rings Of Power seems to be doing just fine attracting an audience anyway, four of the world’s foremost hobbit thespians—Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, and Sean Astin —have taken to social media anyway to show that they’re not on board with internet complaints.
Wood, who played The Lord Of The Rings trilogy’s Frodo, tweeted a photo that shows him standing with Boyd and Monaghan (the films’ Pippin and Merry) while wearing t-shirts with a bunch of elf ears in different skin tones and a line of text that translates, according to shirt creator Don Marshall, to the Sindarin Elvish for “You All Are Welcome Here.”