This thread perhaps disturbed me the most out of any of the ones that I found:
Middle Earth: A Model For Us All.
In it, the author, a member on the site by the name of RohanKnight, says that he likes Middle Earth so much because it is exemplary of his hope that
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the Caucasians will prevail, and not have their societies destroyed by invading armies of evil, satanic peoples
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since the men who serve Sauron are, in his opinion, representative of blacks and other "satanic peoples" in general.
My response to him was this (although it did not get posted on the site for some reason [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] ):
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Tolkien is (admittedly arguably) not a racist, and he certainly did not write Lord of the Rings to prophecize or to suggest that he hoped for a Caucasian-dominated world. The main reason why Middle Earth's heroes share their features predominantly with Caucasians is that Professor Tolkien originally set out to write a mythology for Great Britain, which would be harder to reconcile with present day England if its heroes shared physical traits with members of a different ethnicity than the Caucasian. You are right about one point, though, RohanKnight, and that is that Middle Earth should be a model for present day society: a land where social standing is earned through bravery, humility, loyalty and honor, not through race.
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It saddens me deeply that people would use Professor Tolkien to convey such a horrible and vulgar agenda.