What did Dimitra Fimi publish in 2009 about J. R. R. Tolkien and race?
Dimitra Fimi published a book titled Tolkien, Race and Cultural History that examined conflicting academic arguments about J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings.
Dimitra Fimi published a book titled Tolkien, Race and Cultural History that examined conflicting academic arguments about J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings.
Andrew O'Hehir described Orcs as dark-skinned and slant-eyed creatures who are inherently evil despite possessing reason and speech while calling their depiction a revealing representation of the Other that is also the product of Tolkien's background and era.
Stuart Heritage noted that some commentators draw parallels between the Dwarves as a diasporic people yearning for an ancestral homeland and Zionism while others question if this reflects subconscious bias regarding Jewish influence in Tolkien's Middle-earth writings.
In 1938 publishers of the German translation of The Hobbit from Potsdam wrote to J. R. R. Tolkien asking if he was of pure Aryan descent before he asked his English publisher Stanley Unwin if he should declare such origin before responding to Rütten & Loening.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series screened from September 2022 attracting fierce debate about its handling of race through casting people of color as Dwarves Harfoots and Elves.