Thread: Racism in LOTR?
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Old 03-27-2002, 08:52 PM   #25
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LOTR actually calls the black people from Far Harad who fought against Gondor at the battle of the Pellanor Fields troll-men, but I don't think this is racist at all, I just think that Tolkien was saying that from the people of Gondor's prospective, who had never seen black people before, they looked kind of troll-ish or something.
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