You think you've read drivel? You haven't read drivel until you've read this

[William Cloud Hicklin]

But, when he doesn't think deeply - when he ... makes everyone from the South and East into The Enemy - he mirrors the racist attitudes of the time,

Middle-earth was calqued upon western Europe, in fact is feigned to have been a prehistoric western Europe... where, historically, the invaders and ravagers always came from the south and the east.

The question here is 'would a woman or an ethnic outsider have composed a poem about a big burly man killing an ethnic outsider and a woman?'

Um, less "ethnic outsider" than "supernatural monster." Do we class Cthulhu as an "ethnic outsider"?