Black People In Fantasy--No, LotR doesn't Count!

[silk_noir]

So on FB I posted a question on my wall--"name me the last heroic fantasy you read where there were black people in it."

Ungrammatical, perhaps, but you know what I mean.

And the responses?  Sweet green-eyed bespectacled hermaphrodite Christ.

El Cid, for the love of God.  Because, you know, Moors.  Because Moors are North African

Comments

[tedeisenstein]

I'm not entirely convinced that the respondee meant that all of the people in El Cid were black. Your question seems to ask if there were any blacks in a heroic fantasy novel, not if all the characters were black. I am willing to believe that there may be at least one if not more blacks in the novel. It'd be majority Spanish/Berber/Northern African, of course, but surely it would have at least a few blacks?

[silk_noir]

No, he didn't mean all of the people in El Cid were black.

1) El Cid is NOT a heroic fantasy novel.

2) El Cid is NOT a novel.

3) North Africa =/= automatic black people.

[maggotpunk]

Does Mace Windu count? A lightsaber is kinda like a sword. Star Wars is, afterall, a space version of a swashbuckler tale.

[ammitnox]

Yeah, that thread... THE SONG OF ROLAND, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. Man. People.

BUSTED!

[randy008]

LANDWHIG'S PRIDE: THE 5TH TOKEN OF LIFE!
An ebook I read on Kindle. The main character is black, and the story is not set in Africa, but a world called Uckah.

[ext_2031054]

Dies the Fire series. Reread the latest one last month. Lots of brown people, alt. modern world heroic fantasy.