All of this talk about Tolkien and race makes me wish for a @HeerJeet Tweet essay on the subject.
@dkaszor @ShawnGoldwater Oh yeah, there's definitely a lot of racialist thinking in LOTR, although JRRT also struggled against this in text
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@HeerJeet Yes, the views of a man who feels justified in his landed privilege but also just saw Hitler almost burn down the world. -
@dkaszor I'd have to wrestle with the texts a bit more but as I said in NP piece, JRRT was reactionary but not a Nazi (small consolation)
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