Lord of the Rings labelled racist

[Melephelwen]

(And, on a more personal level, I never saw the orcs as black. I don't really know quite how I saw them, but more of a green thing going on. You can describe them all you want, use Tolkien's words, but I've got my own little movie going on in my head, and it would be vain to attempt to convince me that my image is wrong.)

To be honest, I couldn't imagine hobbits to look like small men before I saw the movie. They were small brown creatures without hair, no matter how hard I tried to get a better picture. Maybe dr. Shapiro had a similar thing with, I don't know, Orcs, Dunlendings, any of Tolkiens people - except he might not believe his image is incorrect or awkward.