Re: Lord of the Rings: war propaganda?

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Subject: Re: Lord of the Rings: war propaganda?
From: Danielle Ni Dhighe <danielle@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 16:21:41 -0800

At 07:32 AM 12/15/2002, LouPaulsen wrote:
>Unfortunately it is much more correct to charge Tolkien
>with racism and sexism. "Black men" and "swarthy men"
>are always on the enemy side.

I don't think it's necessarily true that his intent was racist if one
understands the mythologies he patterned his novels after. The light/dark
contrast comes from those mythologies and it wasn't about what we would
understand as "race".

Danielle Ni Dhighe
Puget Sound Chapter, Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
danielle@xxxxxxxx - http://www.irsm.org/irsm.html
Free Dessie O'Hare! - http://www.irsm.org/irsp/free_dessie/

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