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   From: michael.stemper@gmail.com   
      
   On 2018-02-10 16:49, Bill O'Meally wrote:   
   > I mean, I don't recall him ever specifically being described as white.   
      
   On the contrary, here's some narration from Book 1, Chapter 9, as the   
   hobbits are approaching Bree:   
      
     But in the wild lands beyond Bree there were mysterious wanderers. The   
     Bree-folk called them Rangers, and knew nothing of their origin. They   
     were taller and darker than the Men of Bree and were believed to have   
     strange powers of sight and hearing, and to understand the languages of   
     beasts and birds.   
      
   The Rangers are described as being "darker than the Men of Bree".   
      
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