Pic of the Day
Pic of the Day
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- Tolkien was racist, he definitely didn't like brown people when he was writing LOTR. He admitted it in later life.PhanLo
- orcs represent everything Tolkien finds wrong with man. Exploitation of earth’s resources, imperialist conquests, etc.Gnash
- TS Eliot was an antisemite, doesn't mean that the Hollow Men were joosGnash
- I'm learning how racist Lovecraft was.lemmy_k
- Aren't Orcs actually Elves though?DRIFTMONKEY
- uh so the orcs were supposed to be... arab? black? what?sarahfailin
- @lemmy. yes, orcs are corrupted elves.Gnash
- I'm outraged.inteliboy
- This is a whole clickbait rage article blowing a podcast comment out of proportioncannonball1978
- He was South African, so therefore a racist.
But wait, that makes me a racist for saying that? No. I'm South African so I get to say it. HA!Projectile - lovecraft was a racist ... and from what I have heard a pedo as well. Hope not love his work.
Tolkin was about the destruction of the earth, corruption etc.mugwart - it was meant to show the worst of something pure.mugwart
- +1 @cannonball1978fadein11
- aww. poor wittle tingsGnash
- lolfadein11
- Let's dig up Tolkien and yell at his corpsefuturefood
- or let's not share boring, trivial clickbait.fadein11