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   From: michael.stemper@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/09/2022 19.57, Louis Epstein wrote:   
   > In rec.arts.books.tolkien Michael F. Stemper    
   wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Should Aragorn be perceived as disagreeing in that he then   
   > passed a law barring Men from the Suza?   
      
   Is this supposed to be a new spelling of "Shire" with which I   
   was previously unfamiliar?   
      
   If so, then no. If he disagreed, he would have made either the Big   
   Folk or the Little Folk leave Bree.   
      
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