Genetically the Numenoereans were basically humanity until 2-3 thousand years prior. You'd have to make every human black for Aragorn being the pinnacle of Numenor blood to make any sense.
It doesn't make sense given how the rest of the world is structured ethnically. There's both Rhun and Harad, which both are basically exclusively PoC. It doesn't really matter much, but it doesn't make any sense with any consistent world building for the heir to a bloodline-based monarchy (that stayed pretty isolated genetically to the point where Aragorn lives like, 4 times the length of a 'normal' human due to his extremely undiluted bloodline) to be black unless the majority of middle earth is primarily black too. And middle earth is basically the fantasy series with the most reliance on consistent world building.
However, I do get you that it's not a huge deal. But there's not a way that it makes sense with the worldbuilding, and the worldbuilding here is very intentional and it's one of the biggest selling points of the series, so that being treated as disposable or changeable is going to ruffle some feathers in a way that isn't "I don't like seeing black people in fantasy".
Giving Aragorn a BMW 750i with cruise control and heated seats wouldn't be important to his character, but still fucks with the story because it contradicts the world.
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u/MetaCommando Warlock Nov 09 '24
His entire character arc hinges on being Numenorean