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fandomsecrets2014-03-23 03:28 pm
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(Anonymous) 2014-03-23 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)Doesn't necessarily mean that there can't be PoCs in the stories. And in fact there are groups of characters whose description suggest that they are PoCs - it's just that unfortunately most of these (ie the Easterlings and so son) are on the villains' side. Not that they all are, and it's not like there aren't awful white people either, but it's still all rather dodgy. But, anyway, if Tolkien himself included PoCs, even as less enlightened folks, it's not that far-fetched to imagine that other people that he doesn't really describe but which aren't that far from them (ie Haladin) could also be.
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(Anonymous) 2014-03-23 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)Also covered this, see my response to dreemyweird above.
The point is not that these characters must be white, it's that there is reason enough why someone -- even someone who doesn't consider "white to be the default" -- would see them as being white. You could fancast characters whose races aren't specified as PoCs, and that would be a valid interpretation, but it isn't more valid than someone else's interpretation, be it white or PoCs-of-a-differing-ethnicty. You don't get to pull the race card to get one over people.