to be fair, i also thought lotr has some racist undertones as well...i mean, the book is especially bad on this score, equating darkness of skin with evil, and fairness of skin w/ good.
Yeah, I found that kinda strange at first, but if you think about it, in terms of geographical locations, the "darker skinned" men all came from the south and far east, which explains the skin tones a bit. Of course, that could just be a convenient justification, but just as I don't equate certain events in LOTR to antiwar metaphor (as some do), I don't think there's much more to it than simple story details.
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Yeah, I found that kinda strange at first, but if you think about it, in terms of geographical locations, the "darker skinned" men all came from the south and far east, which explains the skin tones a bit. Of course, that could just be a convenient justification, but just as I don't equate certain events in LOTR to antiwar metaphor (as some do), I don't think there's much more to it than simple story details.
How is it that this guy gets consistently modded up in this thread by bragging about being drunk? Is it just me, or are we rewarding idiots?
Maybe if I post every time I fart my karma will start going through the roof.
Amazing how much this reads exactly like spam, right down to the sig. No, can't be. I shudder to think...
I have heard that WNT was named for the three letters following VMS, just like the relation between HAL and IBM.
Actually, NT simply stands for "New Technology".
Sneezing might cause a bit of a problem...