Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-98.247.168.42-20181122042639/@comment-37166538-20190425232437

For the electicity thing, the point is that elves had  harnessed electricity and created lightbulbs BEFORE humans had. Humans did discover how to do the same things -- but after the elves.

And as for the J.R.R. Tolkien thing, it's just part of Shannon Messenger's fantasy world! She's not claiming that J.R.R. Tolkien actually didn't come up with it, it's just fantasy. Chris Colfer did a similar thing in The Land of Stories with faries telling The Grimm Brother, Hans Christian Andersen, etc., about the fairy tales.

So about the degrading humans thing, I do honestly believe that's a main point of the series. I believe that, by the end, stereotypes against humans will be gone. That's sorta the point. The Neverseen is mistreating humans, and even normal elves degrade them -- but it's Sophie, who has lived with both species and can see both sides of the story, who will unite them.

About the racial thing, I would say that race isn't really something people judge by in the Lost Cities. As for diverse main characters, Prentice, Tam, Linh, Livvy, and Wylie are just a few. And I don't think we could assume that there haven't been any Latino characters either. Shannon Messenger never directly calls a character African, Asian, etc., so she may have a character intended to be Latino, but we don't realize it.

I'm not saying Keeper doesn't have it's faults, but it does frusterate me when people go looking for problems that don't have to be there. SM obviously isn't trying to be racist or discriminatory. I think we should all just try to appreciate Keeper for what it is, and not criticize it for what it's not.

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