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= Tolkien / Racism =

Tolkien has been accused of racism, mainly for two reasons:
 * 1) The evil is located in the South of Middle-Earth, and the men siding wit it (the Haradrims) look like elephant-riding arabs, while his good people look closer to celts and a viking cavalry.
 * 2) Less anecdotally, some of his world races are inherently good, like the fair, tall, and beautiful elfs, or inherently evil, like the dark-skinned ugly orcs.

But J.R.R. Tolkien has always resisted the use of his work for promoting racism (insert refs about apartheid and nazism). Also, unlike some protestants, he did not believe people to be inherently good or evil, and didn't want his work to suggest that (insert a sentence about Sauron). He has admitted the orcs being an inherently evil race was a flaw in his world-building, but died before finding a way to rectify that.

Now, his son's view of the subject are another matter, and might account for the confusion...

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