[isoneri]

Not so, Gollum was not white skinned, nor were the undead armies that Aragon controlled, the series was written in response to World events of World War 2. MOst of the oppressors were white, so how could it be racist.

I would not spend a good portion of my life reading something which was so. Tolkein was an person with excellent imagination and used that skill to escape the world that the rest of us has to live in. I envy and admire him for that.