Com2Kid's Journal: Lord Of The Rings is a tale of exploitation.

Think about it for a moment, a group of hobbits are recruited to save the world so that humans can take it over. In the process all of the Dwarves, Hobbits, and other races will be completely wiped out. Now who does this recruiting? None other than the one last "trusted" human out there! The so called "Gandolf the White".

In the process of "saving" middle earth, all races other than humans are eliminated! How convenient! Bleck! And using two hobbits to do it as well!

"Gandolf the White"

[agnosonga]

Gandalf is not a human.

Olorin A Maia, one of the Istari (Wizards); see Mithrandir, Gandalf, etc ...

all races other than humans are eliminated
that includes Gandalf

sorry for the rant, but I hope that explains something

They aren't eliminated

[sielwolf]

Those that remain in Middle-Earth, become human. The end of the series represents the end of racial strife and xenophobia. In fact it is quite possible that pre-destruction of the Ring humans are much different then the post-destruction of the Ring humans.

Re:They aren't eliminated

[Com2Kid]

• Those that remain in Middle-Earth, become human.

Well now that is fairly eliminated isn't it?

I never did like the entire LOTR trilogy for the sole reason that it is a tale of the END of an age. I hate this current age, I want a story of the height of magic and Elvish culture! ::looks over at Silmarillion::

Ouch, head hurt. Jumbled pile of facts strewn together.

That and in my opinion, Gandolf never got enough action in the books. Sure he is an "insanely powerful wizard" but we never read about him disi

Certainly

[perfessor multigeek]

After all, LOTR was written by an Englishman. Proud voice of the people who used one native group to wipe out another for hundreds of years.

"See that tribe that wears their headfeather on the left? They are your enemy. Here, have some rifles"
-walk-walk-walk
"See that tribe that wears their headfeather on the right? They're your enemy. Here, have some rifles."

-BOOM-

-twenty years later-
"Yaaas, this lodge sits on ground that was sacred to the local tribe. Brave fellahs, died well. Our laundry wallah is t