Are Tolkien Books Racist? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

SlinkerStinker · 01-25-2002, 01:53 AM

This is a sidebar to the thread "Are Tolkien books sexist?"

I'm throwing this out there for opinion sakes. Don't flame me like poor Eve please [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

While I will admit my ignorance of much of JRRT's writings (I've read LOTR 4 times and am halfway through the Sil), I have so far found that the only dark skinned humanfolk in ME live so far south that not only do their stories and history not qualify to be written about, but that they don't even get a place on the map???

Also in LOTR, all the dark folks are lumped into the "inherently evil" group as they are only recorded as being aligned with Sauron, with a slight meantioning that they once traded with Rohan.

I'm not trying to say that Tolkien was racist, but in creating his Middle Earth, where are the heros from the Southrons and Haridrim clans, and where are there stories?

(forgive the spelling I am going from memory)

01-25-2002, 01:53 AM	#1
SlinkerStinker Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 12	Are Tolkien Books Racist? This is a sidebar to the thread "Are Tolkien books sexist?" I'm throwing this out there for opinion sakes. Don't flame me like poor Eve please [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] While I will admit my ignorance of much of JRRT's writings (I've read LOTR 4 times and am halfway through the Sil), I have so far found that the only dark skinned humanfolk in ME live so far south that not only do their stories and history not qualify to be written about, but that they don't even get a place on the map??? Also in LOTR, all the dark folks are lumped into the "inherently evil" group as they are only recorded as being aligned with Sauron, with a slight meantioning that they once traded with Rohan. I'm not trying to say that Tolkien was racist, but in creating his Middle Earth, where are the heros from the Southrons and Haridrim clans, and where are there stories? (forgive the spelling I am going from memory)