Quote from: RPGPundit;655524So was Mozart, though...

Yes.  And Elvis is still known as a performer, despite being dead (according to most) for 30+ years.  

Mozart, while he has a reputation as a performer, it's impossible to KNOW how good he is - our best guess is based on performances of his work (which we assume he was pretty good at performing).  But regardless of his skills as a performer, he is now known as a Composer.  

Yo-Yo Ma may be a better violinist than Mozart was; it's impossible to know; but we can evaluate his performance on a String Quartet because we can hear it.  Direct experience counts for more than word-of-mouth.  That's why reputation tends to fade so quickly...  

If someone is known as the 'fastest gun in the west', people want to see it proven time and time again; not take the word of someone who claims to have seen him 'shoot, like, faster than anyone ever, guys!  It was amazing!'.  We all have a bit of sceptic in us - some more than others.

Quote from: Catelf;650120Crazy?
Is it crazy to point out that the only darkskinned in LotR is Orcs, Goblins, and other beings that is depicted as cruel, mean and Evil, and that the reason for that easily can be traced back to the fact that Tolkien was a White Southafrican and essentially was brought up as a racist?

Well, its not crazy so much as ignorant. You obviously haven't done even the most basic research on the subject. You might start by looking up Tolkien's letter to the German Nazi publisher that wanted to do an edition of LOTR.

QuoteIs it crazy to point out that the musicstyle "rock" has its roots in "Negro Spirituals" wich was derived from the African slaves that was forced to work in the "USA"?

Its crazy to try and make a spurious connection between that with your erroneously simplistic reading of orcs as "blacks" based on nothing besides colour and completely oblivious of Tolkien's own words on the subject, what was actually written on the subject in the Lord of the Rings story itself, and the classical literary origins of the characters/creatures in LOTR that Tolkien was drawing upon.

QuoteIs it crazy to point out, that the obvious result would be that in fantasy worlds, the Orks would have brought the seeds to Rock, or even have developed Rock themselves?

Only if one accepts the racist notion that orcs = africans. So not crazy, but it does make you seem racist, actually.

Quote from: Catelf;650120Is it crazy to point out, that the obvious result would be that in fantasy worlds, the Orks would have brought the seeds to Rock, or even have developed Rock themselves?

Clearly carrying "the seeds to Rock" is a dwarf thing. Now I'm wondering what they do.

Quote from: deadDMwalking;655560Yo-Yo Ma may be a better violinist than Mozart was . . .

Yo Yo Ma is a cellist.

Quote from: deadDMwalking;655560. . . it's impossible to know; but we can evaluate his performance on a String Quartet because we can hear it.  Direct experience counts for more than word-of-mouth.  That's why reputation tends to fade so quickly...

Mozart's reputation as a performer survived for two hundred years and counting.

I take your point, but I don't think it's relevant.