Not-racists did exist at the time. Would be cool if Tolkien was ahead of the curve, but it’s not going to diminish his legacy if we criticize him a little.
As far as I’m aware Tolkien did oppose discrimination against Jews, though. He was once asked by the Hitler regime whether he was Aryan, and he responded with a sassy answer that he didn’t have the honour of being one of those noble people from India, etc.
I think that had he been born in more modern times, he would have been the equivalent of a grandfather who might be a bit slow with the times, but certainly is no hateful person. In that context, it is all the more sacrilege what oligarchs have been trying to appropriate.
Wait till you find out how may people born in 1892 were racist
Not-racists did exist at the time. Would be cool if Tolkien was ahead of the curve, but it’s not going to diminish his legacy if we criticize him a little.
As far as I’m aware Tolkien did oppose discrimination against Jews, though. He was once asked by the Hitler regime whether he was Aryan, and he responded with a sassy answer that he didn’t have the honour of being one of those noble people from India, etc.
I think that had he been born in more modern times, he would have been the equivalent of a grandfather who might be a bit slow with the times, but certainly is no hateful person. In that context, it is all the more sacrilege what oligarchs have been trying to appropriate.