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The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit creator JRR Tolkien

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

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Is Tolkien Racist?

Tolkien was born a Victorian, so difficult to be racist. C.S. Lewis was more conservative religiously and societally. But how many Victorians turned their art into a rigid demarcation between black and white people? That's the transmogrification to use an unnecessarily long word of racism into art. P.E.E. Box: Do you think Tolkien's racist? Probably.

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