The books are about just and unjust hierarchy- and comity w/in hierarchy,eg Sam proves himself Frodo's equal while always calling him master
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The blood of Numenor marks Aragorn as the rightful king, but Barliman Butterbur is suited to his station, too.
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He said at some points that he was an unironic monarchist, I believe.The philosemitic letter he sent to a Nazi publisher seems relevant, too
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relevant to the kind of ideals about race he's trying to embody in the books, which i think is "valued difference" versus equality/supremacy
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Surely Gimli and Legolas's friendship- one of the central ones of the books- is a cross-racial friendship?
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In the Hobbit, they are presented in more even terms, tho i agree by LOTR he was using/overusing elves to represent quasi theological ideals
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Also, Middle Earth seems to be both England (and I agree that he wanted a specifically English mythology) and Europe/Christendom as a whole.
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Hmm...the big "racial" distinctions in Tolkein (and what he's saying about race writ large)are btw Elves, Dwarves, Men, Hobbits, and Orcs...
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Apart from Orcs, the attitude is similar to,say, Teddy Roosevelt's: you can't make races *alike*, but you can make them *like* each other.
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