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Old 06-03-2020, 05:49 PM   #46
William Cloud Hicklin
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But, when he doesn't think deeply - when he ... makes everyone from the South and East into The Enemy - he mirrors the racist attitudes of the time,
Middle-earth was calqued upon western Europe, in fact is feigned to have been a prehistoric western Europe... where, historically, the invaders and ravagers always came from the south and the east.

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The question here is 'would a woman or an ethnic outsider have composed a poem about a big burly man killing an ethnic outsider and a woman?'
Um, less "ethnic outsider" than "supernatural monster." Do we class Cthulhu as an "ethnic outsider"?
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