XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: michael.stemper@gmail.com   
      
   On 08/09/2022 22.31, Louis Epstein wrote:   
      
   > JRRT didn't portrary M-E as all white by any means,and he didn't   
   > portray nonwhites as intrinsically evil...but he DID portray some   
   > societies that were ethnically homogeneous and not thereby evil...   
      
   He also (in narration) described racially integrated Bree as "excellent",   
   specifically for being racially integrated:   
      
      [...] The Big Folk and the Little Folk (as they called one another)   
      were on friendly terms, minding their own affairs in their own ways,   
      but both rightly regarding themselves as necessary parts of the Bree-Folk.   
      Nowhere else in the world was this peculiar (but excellent) arrangement   
      to be found.   
      
   --   
   Michael F. Stemper   
   What happens if you play John Cage's "4'33" at a slower tempo?   
      
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