Flaws

[The X Phial]

I have often wondered, because of the Professors religion how he felt about how bantu's were treated. (Bantu is 'black' is Africaans) It seems IMHO that Sam (his character anyway) has reflection of the times before the apartide took place.

I, unfortunately, no longer have a copy of the letters handy, but during WW2, when Christopher Tolkien was stationed in South Africa, his father wrote to him quite often. While I can't recall the actual quote now, I do know that the treatment of native peoples by European settlers was not approved of by Tolkien. I believe he expressed disgust. I doubt he would intentionally have written anything that would reflect well on aparthied.