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Originally Posted by eowyntje
A famous example is the group of orcs which captured Merry and Pippin, these were if I remmember correctly slit-eyed and comming from the east, which could be seen as a refference to the chinese.
Also the policies of Aragorn, in the story represented as the destend and perfect king, are quite kapitalistic and very militant. For example Aragorn tries to pursuade the more pacifistic Theoden who wants to flee to helms deep, to fight open war. Perhaps Tolkien found militant behaviour a good way to deal with the threath of war.
Then there is of course the fact that the perfect race, elves, were tall blond and blue eyed. And there are many more examples like this.
I'm not saying Tolkien was a racist or a kapitalist, I'm just saying the topic does need serious discussion.
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There are so many fallacies here...the point about the Orcs is simply absurd and contrived, the point about Aragorn and Theoden is only relevant with regard to the films, not the books. You might just as well say Tolkien was a racist for making Gothmog a pink orc.
And elves are not blonde and blue-eyed. Another filmic misconception. Only the Elves of the Vanyar and Finarfin's house (and, apparently, Thranduil) were blonde. The vast majority were dark. Almost all had grey eyes...
And Tolkien probably was a capitalist, as most men of his age and class were, to some degree; but he had an aesthetic distaste for capitalism, as you can see from his treatment of Saruman's capitalist schemes in Isengard and the Shire. This is why he has such a keen hippy following...