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  • In my personal opinion, those folks need to lighten up. We’re talking about a completely fictional realm where there is plenty of fantasy diversity expressed in other ways, written by a British man who was born in 1892. Enjoy it or don’t, but there really isn’t much foundation to assume that Tolkien was trying to be racist with his literary choices.

    From the Wikipedia article on Tolkien and race:

    In his personal life, he was anti-racist both in peacetime and during the two World Wars.

    Sure, we can throw in some black characters in new productions of his work, but judging the man by modern standards is just looking for outrage.