NP "racist" Tolkien?

[jbor]

on 29/12/02 8:01 AM, Dave Monroe at davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:

> Who needs to give "it" a rest again?

Well, with your 150-odd posts this month to my 45, I'd say the odds are it's
you who can't let a post of mine (or anybody else's) go by without a
rejoinder of some sort. You're less obsessive and rancourous with everyone
else, of course, and it's my own fault for letting myself be drawn into your
web of nastiness again, but .... Seriously, it is beginning to sound as if
you need to take a break.

I think I've made my points. Michael Moorcock (!) notwithstanding, the case
against _TLOTR_ as a "racist" text relies on an interpretation of the text
which doesn't match up with the actual substance of the text, the
circumstances of Tolkien's biography or his stated attitudes towards racism.

And it's not "'about'" World War Two either.

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