[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

But what I find when I dig down is that Tolkien seems to have put in so many examples which fully support our modern viewpoints. So for example we do have the Numenorean 'master race', but to counter them we also have the Druedain, an ancient, primitive (in terms of contemporary Third Age society) people, who have been cruelly treated by the Rohirrim but prove themselves to be above mere vengeance and demonstrate to these same people that in many ways they are better than them, by helping them instead of sticking them full of poisoned arrows.

A fair point. Although, to reiterate the point that I made on one of the threads linked to above about Tolkien being a "product of his time" (or, in this case, of his shared history), this might be ascribed to the concept of the noble savage.