Re: _NP?_ "the_formerly_colonised_coming_back_to_haunt_us"

[Tim Strzechowski]

Yes!!

> Any debate on the implied racism or xenophobia in TLOTR, is spectacularly
> obtuse because it ignores the very content of the books. The members of
the
> Fellowship came from different SPECIES for chrissakes. They had to put
aside
> thier culturally imbedded and reinforced mistrust or downright hatred in
> order to cooperate to defeat an inhumane and uncivilized menace."  [ ... ]

And this is precisely why the whole "racism" argument, for me at least, is
an absurd one.

Thanks for a wonderful paragraph, there, vze422fs!

Tim