Lord of the Rings labelled racist

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by davem

My own feeling is they have decided it is racist & there is not a thing any of us can do to convince them they are wrong.

You may be right. But just because a cause looks hopeless, it does not follow that one should not seek to uphold it. Where would Middle-earth have been with an approach like that?

Although, in fact, my own initial consideration of this issue (in the thread I linked to above) was directed at calming the slight qualms that I had, having not at that stage read the book for many a year and having little knowledge of Tolkien the man, that there might be racist undertones. Suffice it to say that they were calmed.