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Why were they all white in the fellowship?
Jaxson Russell
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Aaron Lopez
Because it's a story set in fantasy Europe about fantasy Europeans mirroring real history and not because Tolkien was /pol/, he hated /pol/.
Owen Edwards
It was Europe in the past.
Wyatt Ross
He didn't know /pol/
Robert Morris
The same reason the main Cast in the Witcher show should
Jose Campbell
>mirroring real history
Damn. I didn't know elves were fucking real.
Jordan Lewis
>This meme again
If you mean he wasn't a racist, then no he was a racist in so far that he believed in biological determinism and was a right wing Uber catholic. So Catholic and right wing that he , until the day he died, he said mass in Latin just to spite the Second Vatican Council. He was also subscribed to a bunch of nationalist newsletters. His writings reflect a lot of ethnocentrism as well.
It's just that he didn't hate people for being different and didn't like Nazis. A lot of right wingers didn't like the Nazis either . Including the people who tried to assassinate Hitler
Gavin Russell
Because The Brotherhood of the Ring doesn't sound as good.
Ryan Edwards
faggots of the ring sounds the best
Blake Baker
I love seeing /pol/ twist themselves into knots trying to argue that he really hated black people and Jews too.
>"The treatment of colour nearly always horrifies anyone going out from Britain, & not only in South Africa. Unfort[unately], not many retain that generous sentiment for long." ― Letter 61 — Written to Christopher Tolkien who was stationed in South Africa during World War II.
>"I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do not care which of them you think White." ― From a Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford in 1959.
>"I must say that the enclosed letter from Rutten & Loening is a bit stiff. Do I suffer this impertinence because of the possession of a German name, or do their lunatic laws require a certificate of arisch origin from all persons of all countries? ... Personally I should be inclined to refuse to give any Bestätigung (although it happens that I can), and let a German translation go hang. In any case I should object strongly to any such declaration appearing in print. I do not regard the (probable) absence of all Jewish blood as necessarily honourable; and I have many Jewish friends, and should regret giving any colour to the notion that I subscribed to the wholly pernicious and unscientific race-doctrine." ― Letter 29 — Written in response to Tolkien's German publishers asking whether he was of Aryan origin.
>"It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad that he could not see the dead face. He wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil at heart, or what lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would not really rather have stayed there in peace." ― The Two Towers, "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit".
Bentley Parker
Why do zoomers constantly mix facism and far right with biology and traditionalism?
Michael Gonzalez
>Tfw there's no blaxploitation film called "Niggas of da Rang" parody of Fellowship
Owen Gonzalez
>he hated /pol/
If your grandparents posted here, you would be calling them /pol/
Liam Collins
>"Thank you for your letter. I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject — which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.
>Your enquiry is doubtless made in order to comply with the laws of your own country, but that this should be held to apply to the subjects of another state would be improper, even if it had (as it has not) any bearing whatsoever on the merits of my work or its sustainability for publication, of which you appear to have satisfied yourselves without reference to my Abstammung." ― Letter 30 — Written directly to Tolkien's German publishers.
>“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”
Thomas Allen
>biology
>wholly pernicious and unscientific race-doctrine
Keep spinning /pol/.
Henry Cruz
>that he really hated black people and Jews too.
I didn't say that though , in fact I explicitly said the opposite :/
He was still a racist though. He believed in racialism, he believed in biological determinism, and was ethnocentric.
>Traditionalism isnt far right
It's about as reactionary as you can get. It's more right wing than fascism
Samuel Allen
>Race doctrine is unscientific and pernicious
No, it's still a legitimate claim within biology around the world.
Adrian Cruz
>He was still a racist though. He believed in racialism, he believed in biological determinism, and was ethnocentric.
Great let's see the excerpts of his letters saying that.
Nathan Lee
>He hated /pol/
Yet all the non-whites in the books are more primitive, violent and supporters of Sauron and his evil like those Indian looking fags. I'd say Tolkein was based and that you're a faggot.
Josiah Mitchell
I mean, all your letters have done is prove that he doesn't hate people from being different. That doesn't mean he thinks of people in purely egalitarian means in terms of their ancestry or culture, in fact within the letter where he decries nazism he still implies he has pride for being both English and German. Which is ethnocentrism
Then there is the way he describes the ugliness of orcs
>squat, broad, flat-nosed, sallow-skinned, with wide mouths and slant eyes; in fact degraded and repulsive versions of the (to Europeans) least lovely Mongol-types."(Letter 210)
Yeah, ethnocentrism and racialism. Of course I'm going to guess your some raging liberal who just can't stand disagreeing with people about anything so this might be a shock to you. Here's some advice: grow up
Camden Jackson
>he didn't know elfs are real
Wew lad, watch yourself
Lucas Green
Mythological past*
Blacks for example have been in Britain since at least Roman days. They brought tools, infrastructure and hygiene to the British Isles.
Tolkien fails to grasp how diverse Europe has been since its beginning. Instead he chooses to opt for a racist divisive approach which paints European whites as a kind of noble but troubled race trying to hold the line against an Eastern race of plundering savage slavers called Orcs.
While anthropologically, culturally, literary and historically interesting when studying nationalist and racist mythos, as a piece of entertainment it is only right that in future adaptations (such as by Amazon) diversity will come to the foreground. We will never again return to the age of exclusion and division.
It does not mean that the Lord of the Rings movies from the early 2000's aren't good. They're decent flicks in their own right. But they are also a relic of a bygone age.
Ryan Bailey
Everyone prior to a few years ago was racist/sexist/whateverphobic. It's an ever moving window so you can denounce anyone at anytime.
Evan Sanders
>Blacks for example have been in Britain since at least Roman days. They brought tools, infrastructure and hygiene to the British Isles.
Pffffttttt hahahahaha
Carter Gray
What word are they talking about?
Nolan Parker
They don't even have tools, hygiene, or infrastructure now.
Julian Thomas
Dude, how has centuries old Roman (literal) propoganda about the Celts being unclean dirt grovellers survived in our perception to this day?
Chase Lee
>atanari
>white
Jaxon Morgan
bound to get a few bites
Ethan Richardson
I believe it's an Elvish word.
Samuel Gomez
Tolkien would beat people like you with a belt if he saw how faggoty you are
Ayden Ramirez
because they were made by a Russian guy a century ago, he wrote about what he knew. instead of doing what modern writers do shilling their imagined versions of how poc live.
Austin Ortiz
>Orcs look like ugky Asian people.
Lol what the fuck does that have to do with ethnocentrism or "racialism"? Tell me where in that obe sentence he espouses those ideas. And what about biological determinism? I have quotes of Tolkien EXPLICITLY rejecting racism, apartheid, and anti-semitism and all you can do is desperately project as many of your /pol/ ideologies as you can into one sentence.
>Of course I'm going to guess your some raging liberal who just can't stand disagreeing with people about anything so this might be a shock to you.
I'm not the one so desperate to put Tolkien into a neat little box to define what he'd think about politics half a century after he died. I never called him a liberal!
>Here's some advice: grow up
Woah nice badass finisher.
Adrian White
i love this pasta
Cooper Rogers
>anglos
>european
Kek
Colton Adams
He killed a lot of /pol/acks in Spain.
How come poltards can't fathom that aboslutely no one likes them but but themselves? I'm a far right wing ultranationalist that despises non-whites in white countries and I hate /pol/. They're a bunch of manchild neo nazi women haters clutching their pearls about getting punched for saying nigger in front of niggers and having mental breakdowns whenever a non-white is portrayed in one of their capeshits or vidya. All they do is piss and moan about things that don't matter and talk tough before running away from things that do matter. If there was a Spanish Civil war type situation I'd refuse to fight alongside poltards, though I wouldn't even have to worry about that because no one from /pol/ would even show up.
Tyler Gonzalez
You mean niggas of da bling
Lucas Martinez
>blacks for example have been in Britain since at least Roman days. They brought tools, infrastructure and hygiene to the British Isles
In your fairy tale of revised history for the sake of political agenda, do they say why Africa lack all of those things now, even in the countries with the smaller amount of outside intervention?
Jacob Sanchez
>I'm a far right wing ultranationalist that despises non-whites in white countries and I hate /pol/
Owen Parker
High level bait
Jaxson Turner
was sauron a metaphor for nigger?
Easton Williams
>wholly pernicious and unscientific race-doctrine
Eventually you'll learn that wanting things to be true and saying them as if they are doesn't actually make them true.
Unlike black people being dumber than white people, which is an actual true thing
Matthew Collins
>He killed a lot of /pol/acks in Spain.
excuse me what?
>Tolkien voiced support for the Nationalists (eventually led by Franco during the Spanish Civil War) upon hearing that communist Republicans were destroying churches and killing priests and nuns.
en.wikipedia.org
Isaiah King
Yeah because IQ tests are hard science and psychology is a STEM field. But whether it's true or not Tolkien didn't think so and that's the point.
Andrew Turner
Tolkien had access to 4channel?
Grayson Williams
He was probably conflating Tolkien with Orwell, who joined the Republicans but was forced to flee the country when they started killing anyone who counter-signalled the atrocities or wasn't leftist enough. The experience made him anti-Communist for the rest of his life.
Cameron Foster
Yes, the cave troll was originally meant to call Aragorn a jew and then say he's triggered when he asks what a jew is
Adam Sullivan
I think he stopped browsing with moot, haven't seen his trip in a long time
Matthew Harris
Because the white man stole it from them during slavery.
Nicholas Morgan
because white people are actually heroic and brown people are 99.9% mindless and evil
Isaac Hall
everyone in this thread, have sex
Jeremiah White
Tom Bombadil was based on a regular /pol/ user. That is why his wife is the stereotypical blonde wheat field /pol/ fantasy.
Dylan Campbell
How would a annonymous imageboard work back in tolkiens day?
they would get delivered a newspaper-like compilation of the old threads and news threads each morning, and have until the afternoon to sends their posts addressed to existent threads, or new threads. If a thread doesn't get any reply it doesn't comeback the next day, and it is replaced by a new one from the waiting list
I guess thread spam would be a problem as well
Julian Nguyen
/pol/ isn't an image board. It's a way of life.
Robert Morales
because its written by a white man
Joseph Long
They would meet in the town square and scream out racist red pilled comments at each other, hiding their faces behind masks like the KKK
Luis Phillips
A nigger would just have tried to steal the ring
Noah Campbell
Haradrim not white. How is any of this arguable?
Luke Wilson
i didnt know dragons the size of mountains were an acceptable part of European fantasy but a black man somehow stretches that same fantasy to breaking point
Brandon Murphy
Because Tolkien pitted pure good against pure evil
Austin Brooks
>mirroring real history
By which I meant the Umayyad and Mongol invasions.
Lincoln James
In my story I do not deal in Absolute Evil. I do not think there is such a thing, since that is Zero.
Nolan Myers
so many people falling for obvious bait
ay lamo
William Myers
stop expecting white male fantasy authors to insert POC into their stories. if you want a black fantasy story write it yourself. stop asking for handouts no one owes you shit
Gabriel Rivera
There are black people in LotR. They marched with the Haradrim.
Nathaniel Turner
>Damn. I didn't know elves were fucking real.
Tolkien has explicitly said numerous times that the Lord of the Rings Universe takes place in prehistoric Earth.
From Letter 211 (1 of 2):
"May I say that all this is ‘mythical’, and not any kind of new religion or vision. As far as I know it is merely an imaginative invention, to express, in the only way I can, some of my (dim) apprehensions of the world. All I can say is that, if it were ‘history’, it would be difficult to fit the lands and events (or ‘cultures’) into such evidence as we possess, archaeological or geological, concerning the nearer or remoter part of what is now called Europe; though the Shire, for instance, is expressly stated to have been in this region (I p. 12).6 I could have fitted things in with greater versimilitude, if the story had not become too far developed, before the question ever occurred to me. I doubt if there would have been much gain; and I hope the, evidently long but undefined, gap* in time between the Fall of Barad-dûr and our Days is sufficient for ‘literary credibility’, even for readers acquainted with what is known or surmised of ‘pre-history’.
I have, I suppose, constructed an imaginary time, but kept my feet on my own mother-earth for place. I prefer that to the contemporary mode of seeking remote globes in ‘space’. However curious, they are alien, and not lovable with the love of blood-kin. Middle-earth is (by the way & if such a note is necessary) not my own invention. It is a modernization or alteration (N[ew] E[nglish] Dictionary] ‘a perversion’) of an old word for the inhabited world of Men, the oikoumenē: middle because thought of vaguely as set amidst the encircling Seas and (in the northern-imagination) between ice of the North and the fire of the South. O.English middan-geard, mediaeval E. middenerd, middle-erd. Many reviewers seem to assume that Middle-earth is another planet!
Jonathan Collins
From Letter 211 (2 of 2):
"I imagine the gap to be about 6000 years: that is we are now at the end of the Fifth Age, if the Ages were of about the same length as S.A. and T.A. But they have, I think, quickened; and I imagine we are actually at the end of the Sixth Age, or in the Seventh."
Isaac Mitchell
Because one inspires images of Fire and true mindless destruction and the other is a dragon
Daniel Brooks
Post that other picture of Middle-earth overlaid with ice age Europe showing Doggerland and everything.
Gavin Thomas
Was meant for
Juan Cruz
Umayyad? Umadbro? Huh? Niggers made up an invasion and called it "Umayad"? Seriously?
Chase Hall
the black people are the orcs
Andrew Rogers
Funny thing is archeologists are now discovering that humans and civilizations have been around much longer than we previously thought and that those advanced civilizations may have been wiped out by a global natural disaster. We're a species with amnesia basically.
So, while not scientifically accurate from a fantasy perspective Lord of the Rings can line up.
Asher Johnson
DAS RIIIIIITE
Oliver Rivera
Orc's skin tone is "sallow" meaning a sickly grey/yellow/green color.
Gabriel Gutierrez
Because they were stopping evil.
Jeremiah Martin
Dragons are part of ancient European folklore which the stories are based on, along with elves and dwarves, you retarded niggermonkey.
Caleb Flores
> fantasy element deeply rooted in European history
> non-fantasy element known not to be part of Europe
wow, you're right, no difference at all.
Wyatt Hill
They were Uruks actually.
Michael Gray
>hey brought tools, infrastructure and hygiene to the British Isles.
Yeah, and then kinda forget them there and never created new ones for themselves back home.
Joseph Allen
Imagine if the movies were made today. 70% of the fellowship would be niggers, women and fags.
Juan Turner
It's some kind of Ebonics, i can't say it
Eli Taylor
cause it was made in the 90s when people were racist still no way they would get away with that bs now days
Nolan Ortiz
>Dragons are deeply rooted in European fantasy
>Black man is not deeply rooted in European fantasy
There are black people, they were in the group of Easterlings with the Haradrim, they got cut down by the good guys in Return of the King, didn't you watch it?
Michael Rivera
think about it logically
Caleb Gonzalez
The books where written between the 30´s and 50´s and the lore is inspired by norse mythology. The films where just accurately (as much as possible) adapting the source material. (which is why these movies where actually that good)
Carter Sullivan
And that's a good thing
Christopher Myers
If you're a faggot
Mason Miller
Tolkien would beat you with the dictionary he worked on
Josiah Phillips
>knows more about history than an Oxford professor of ancient linguistics
Ayyyyyyy