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Aristus

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11. Right-wingers have, in the past, and nowadays too, evidently,
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 05:37 PM
Jan 2021

claimed that LOTR supports white supremacy, since most of its major figures are described as conforming to white European features, while the antagonists are largely dark-skinned or are described as being dark, either literally or figuratively.

The suspicious, distrustful, greedy dwarves are often likened to gross stereotypes of Jewish people.

Tolkien himself refuted a lot of this, especially from anti-Semitic German fans who thought Tolkien may have been a fellow-traveler.

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