It upsets me when people say that Tolkien was a racist because there is nothing to signify he was. He enjoyed other cultures, he studied other cultures. He was fascinated about the world. He was attempting to create a myth about a fantasy world named Arda, which was in some way historically accurate. Not all those with, in his words, “tanned skin” were bad and not all those who had white skin were good. To say he was a racist because he based his story 6000 years in Europe, is wrong.

