[Olorin_TLA]

Right, Tolkien started with a mythology for him, his homeland: when people create stories, characters tend to be like themselves, because that's the way the mind works.<P>So therefore, good guys of Middle-earth, whom he wrote of=white, like him (thoguh there are a fair percentage of swarthy good guys, and even the Wild Men, so it's not like he was saying white=good...).<P>Now, LotR covers a hell of a lot more terrain than Silm or the Hobbit. Since it was set far in the past of our world, the further aborad your map goes, the more vaired skin tones will be. It's a simple human fact.<P>You know what would have been racist? Albino Haradrim and men of Rhun. An entirely white world. Think about that if ye will.