I think this issue is somewhat within my lane since the original Tolkien Orcs were specifically a racist caricature of Asians And my thing is like, what's done is done and it's too late to "cancel Orcs" completely from our pop culture, but I'm allowed to make be snarky about ithttps://twitter.com/HoldenShearer/status/1254414174484140034 …
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What did Tolkien say about his mental view of the elves? They also can be considered Asian (i.e., not Nordic) it seems to me (?)
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No not really He physically describes Elves as "fair" and Orcs as "dark" and it's pretty clear that at least sometimes he was literally referring to skin color
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