Is Lord of the Rings Racist?

A discussion of how Lord of the Rings ended up like this. | Buy Symphony of the Sojourn: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CT89VR14?...

Thanks to my patrons!!!
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=73482298

Sources:

Branston, B. (1957). The Lost Gods of England. London: Thames and Hudson.

Chance, J. (1979). Tolkien’s Art: A ‘Mythology for England’. London & Basingstoke: Macmillan Press.

Hardman, G. trans. (2011). The Saga of Sorli the Strong. The Complete Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda. Available online at: https://www.germanicmythology.com/FOR... [last accessed 08/04/2024].

Humphrey, C. (1977). Tolkien: a biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Shipley, T. (1982). The Road to Middle-Earth. Allen & Unwin.

Shippey, T. (2004). "Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel". In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

St Clair, G. (1996). "An Overview Of the Northern Influences on Tolkien's Works". Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature, v. 21, no. 2, Article 13.

Stuart, R. (2022). Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth. Palgrave Macmillan.

Tolkien, J. (1932, 1934). "Sigelwara Land". Medium Aevum, v.1 no.3 & v.3 no.2.

See also:

Sinex, M. (2010). "Monsterized Saracens," Tolkien's Haradrim, and Other Medieval "Fantasy Products". Tolkien Studies, v. 7, no. 1, p 175-196.


Written and created by K Klein
Art by kvd102