It will never cease to humor me that the people who claim to be the most for the free market always get so butt hurt when the free market shifts towards current trends they don’t like to chase capital. Had a convo a bit ago with a loser who wa super but their about WOC wanting to change orcs in D&D to end the blatant coding. Who then shut the fuck up when someone brought up how it’s not a moral issue but WOC just wanting to appeal to the untapped POC nerd market.
the orcs are definitely described as being mongolian-like but I disagree with dwarves being jews, I think that stretches it a bit - the haradrim, easterlings, umbar corsairs and the dunlanders are more racist if we're going to pick Tolkien's work apart.
The umbar are described as swarthy and dark skinned, the haradrim are just a pastiche of indian, mongolian and chinese influences, the easterlings seem to be a pastiche of islamic influences with their masks that completely cover their faces except the eyes, their long beards, and how they were originally going to be called the 'swarthy people' - and their's also the idea of these 'cruel, unforgiving people from a place that's probably sandy or something' laced throughout their characterisation. Dunlanders are just supposed to be stupid barbaric people that are probably germanic coded but I can't really remember.
regardless of all the racism that's just under the surface though I personally still really like the books, now if had been really racist I might change my mind, but to me it just seems like its a relic of when it was considered ok to say things like that
I don't think the choice to partially base their language as semitic is makes them definitely semitic, of course it shows that they were partially inspired to have semitic traits but I think it doesn't show as much as with the various factions I listed because a lot more went into the dwarves than just pastiche
It will never cease to humor me that the people who claim to be the most for the free market always get so butt hurt when the free market shifts towards current trends they don’t like to chase capital. Had a convo a bit ago with a loser who wa super but their about WOC wanting to change orcs in D&D to end the blatant coding. Who then shut the fuck up when someone brought up how it’s not a moral issue but WOC just wanting to appeal to the untapped POC nerd market.
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the orcs are definitely described as being mongolian-like but I disagree with dwarves being jews, I think that stretches it a bit - the haradrim, easterlings, umbar corsairs and the dunlanders are more racist if we're going to pick Tolkien's work apart.
The umbar are described as swarthy and dark skinned, the haradrim are just a pastiche of indian, mongolian and chinese influences, the easterlings seem to be a pastiche of islamic influences with their masks that completely cover their faces except the eyes, their long beards, and how they were originally going to be called the 'swarthy people' - and their's also the idea of these 'cruel, unforgiving people from a place that's probably sandy or something' laced throughout their characterisation. Dunlanders are just supposed to be stupid barbaric people that are probably germanic coded but I can't really remember.
regardless of all the racism that's just under the surface though I personally still really like the books, now if had been really racist I might change my mind, but to me it just seems like its a relic of when it was considered ok to say things like that
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I don't think the choice to partially base their language as semitic is makes them definitely semitic, of course it shows that they were partially inspired to have semitic traits but I think it doesn't show as much as with the various factions I listed because a lot more went into the dwarves than just pastiche
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Coding is blatant in all fantasy works especially the older ones