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Look, why does anyone *care* about Black people in a Middle Earth thing? Yeah, I know racism, but for all the description JRRT provides, *the entire Fellowship and all the Istari and hobbits could be Black*, why not? Like literally the only people he mentions with ethnic traits are the Saxons-with-serial-numbers-filed-off Rohirrim and the quasi Inuit who show up in Silmarillion. You'd have an easier time arguing there aren't coniferous forests in Middle Earth.

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