[Keeper of Dol Guldur]

Obviously I'm well aware of Tolkien's true feelings, and that he just wanted to write a good story.

But yeah, everyone certainly notices the similarities and parallels between Middle Earth and Europe (which happens to be on earth, between Asia and America).

But then, while Tolkien refined and really characterized a lot of fantastic races, he didn't invent them. Magic Rings, Dwarves, Elves and Goblins have been legends of Europe (and nearly identical legends in other continents) for hundreds upon hundreds of years, and whatever their original creators intent or meaning was doesn't mean crap anymore.

Now ... as a pirate ... you must be REALLY upset with Tolkien for the negative way he portrayed your type as backstabbing, hired help who were an inferior branch of the seafaring race mingled with non-Numenoreans for YEARS (he must have been taking a stab at Latin American / Carribbean cultures?!) ... and because he went so far as to suggest that pirates and Haradrim (who coincidentally came regions of Middle Earth similar in geographical form to Africa) should all be killed by legions of ghosts who swore to fulfill an oath to the King of the White City. Is that supposed to be some sort of veiled support for the Ku Klux Klan?!

(Yeah yeah, I'm not so subtle.)

Funniest post ... EVER! Wholly inappropriate, politically incorrect, and swarthy and scurvy and everything in between ... now everybody laugh hysterically at the ridiculousness of human culture's idiotic past, and how far I think we've come (which is pretty damn far, but still isn't good enough). Laugh! LAUGH!