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I play on Evernight, never heard a single player express they intend to
leave over this, or heard much criticism of the charceters update
in /world.
Except from a few trolls, who also frequently...

/chuckle

Veteran players arent leaving, let alone in big numbers.
I'm part of a kin of 600 players, with a lot of Veteran players, and none of them have even said 1 unhappy/ negative word about...

To be specific, I said YOU are racist.
Not Tolkien fans in general, not any other poster in this thread.
Even though I vehemently disagree with him, I havent seen Radhruin write anything that...

You are completely ignoring the problems Tolkien faced when he had to deal with the fact that the nazis so abused Norse mythology
in their gruesome propaganda, that after WOII even saying that Norse...

Ah Tolkien...the words and values that make sense are tolerance, solidarity, love, comradeship, anti-racism.
The veiled and not so veiled intolerance, bigotry and racism some here display, are...

You're absolutely correct. I am not interested in your nuance, when you try to pretend black people as described by Tolkien are only a little black,
or preferably brown or mediterranean. That's not...

Are you actually not just narrowminded but also incredibly dumb?
Yes dwarves come from norse mythology, but if someone here would claim that dwarves are based upon the actual people from Torvud,...

That is correct. You didnt have a clue, you keep arguing and you still have no clue.

It was very simple to say: yeah you're correct that was what Tolkien said about the house of beor.
But...
...

Bingo.
It wasn't English, they aren't English, they were partly based upon people whom he knew from his childhood, partly on earlier fantasy/ fairy tales like The Marvellous Land of Snergs
and an...

I have never argued any of this, so answer your own phony arguments, that doesnt interest me.
If you care to discuss what I actually posted:

"One of the three houses of men that crossed the Ered...

Yes, good point.
The message that evil can only be defeated when all races, cultures cooperate
went right over a lot of players' heads.:rolleyes:

Tolkien has written that he styled many of the hobbits and their customs on the simple country folks who he knew during his youth, yet
they were NOT Englishmen, or English.
They are fairy figures,...

One last time, because you just honestly dont seem to get it.
Tolkien was a professor in English Language and Literature and a philologist. Apart from writing the books we so enjoy, he constructed...

Yes it absolutely does.
The hobbit was a fairy tale, based upon another fairy tale, describing imaginery fairy folk, as Tolkien
argued in his essay "On Fairy-Stories".
All your posts, from when...

I agree with your entire post.:)

I take it you dont know much about how and why Tolkien wrote The Hobbit or what he
in his own words used as inspiration.

"I should like to record my own love and my children's love of E. A....

Just for the record, you are assuming here that Tolkien, who was a professor in English Language and Literature and a philologist, was not aware of the etymology of the word swarthy.
It might ofc be...

Entirely, 100% wrong.
The Shire, as area, was inspired by the Midlands.
The Hobbits were inspired by the "snergs" from the children's book The Marvellous Land of Snergs, by Edward Augustine...

Seeing how outspoken Tolkien was against eugenics, racism and apartheid, I'm sure
he would prefer to see a game world where we can see someone like Lizzo, over some "slegs vir blankes" game world.
...

Reading is hard I know.
I said i dont care about someone's opinion that HIS way of playing/ looking at his avatar is the only good one.

Thanks, but it is absolutely not up to you to decide how players watch/ experience their character.

Once again: that is not up to you to decide.
Many, many studies show that players enjoy having...

Being a devout Christian, which I also am, thank you very much, doesnt equal being a bigot.

"Anything named as sin in the bible he also would have seen as such"
Tolkien was a Christian, he wasnt...

This is such a short sighted and silly take. Study after study shows that yes, people do identify with their avatars/ player characters in Mmorpgs.
It doesn’t matter that you say it shouldn’t be...

Just happened on Evernight too, very nice.:)

We didnt need a new thread on this subject, where the same handful of posters complain and speculate about things.
The change doesnt effect me, since I havent seen a single female player with beard...