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Old 04-16-2002, 03:02 PM   #6
Voronwe
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Actually, Tolkien was born in South Africa and spent his very early childhood there. There is a letter Tolkien wrote to his son where he complains about the racism in that country at the time. Anyone reading the letter can see that Tolkien was not a racist man. However, he was not, thankfully, a politically correct writer either.
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