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   From: schlomo.goldberg@mailinator.com   
      
   Steve Hayes  writes:   
      
   > 'The Lord of the Rings' Is Not the Far Right's Playground (extract)   
      
   Are you sure Tolkien wasn't far right? I mean, he definitely wrote how   
   Western European-looking people were protecting their homelands from   
   hordes of nigg... I mean, orcs.   
      
   Aragorn was Dúnedain:   
      
   > In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings, the Dúnedain   
   > (/ˈduːnɛdaɪn/; singular: Dúnadan, "Man of the West") were a race of   
   > Men, also known as the Númenóreans or Men of Westernesse (translated   
   > from the Sindarin term).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)