My tweets

• Sun, 12:07: You want to bring up a cultural bias that Tolkien had, well I tend to think he was a product of his time.
• Sun, 12:09: You want questionable writing of other races (of humans)? Read Narnia.
• Sun, 12:10: If someone wrote a book *now* with the same cultural biases as Tolkien had, I'd be happy to sit back as people screamed "Racist!" at it.
• Sun, 12:11: But Tolkien was a man of a past era, with different standards.
• Sun, 12:12: Identify the biases, recognize them as such. Use them to recognize your own biases, and go on and enjoy the books anyway.
• Sun, 12:18: All this has been brought to you by @king_thror bringing up racial issues to @SilmarilNaro .
• Sun, 12:19: And I admit, I decided to say all of it here because @SilmarilNaro is one of mine.
• Sun, 12:20: Varda still thinks I should have given the account to Manwë, but my Manwë muse is not in the house. Nárë was willing to come & snark.
• Sun, 12:21: Also, Nárë has been around as long as Varda has. I RP'd silmarils back in late '04.
• Sun, 12:23: RT @YoungDwarf: Tolkien was a little 'un PC' at times, but he wasn't directly hateful towards people of colour. He only mentioned them a fe…

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