Here I have posted an interesting story concerning some people who do not like the Lord of the rings for the curious reason that it is too "White" whatever that may mean. For those of us who love Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic mythology you must read this article.


‘Lord of the Rings’ Rules Oscars
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, etc: “Anti-Racists” Say Lord of the Rings too “Eurocentric”

Sam Francis, VDare.com, Feb. 19

[See also: Today’s Letter: Gimli Agrees With “British Reader”]

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a self-appointed “watchdog” organization in Montgomery, Alabama that purports to keep a sharp eye out for “racism” and “hate.”

Despite its name, it doesn’t seem to have much to do with either the South or the law, let alone poverty, other than avoiding the latter for its own officers, most of whom reportedly pull down six-figure salaries for themselves.

But this week its well-paid but merciless eye fell upon a target not usually associated with “hate”—the immensely popular and widely praised epic film series “Lord of the Rings,” the last installment of which is now showing at your local Bijou and has been nominated for no fewer than 11 Academy Awards.

The SPLC’s website, tolerance.org, last week reprinted an op-ed from Pacific News Service by Andrea Lewis, a San Francisco based writer who has discovered that at least the current film in Peter Jackson’s stunning cinematic version of the three-volume novel by J.R.R. Tolkien should really have been named “The Return of the Patriarchy.”

There just aren’t enough fighting females in the movie for Miss Lewis, but she also doesn’t like it because “Almost all of the heroes of the series are manly men who are whiter than white” and “exude a heavenly aura of all that is Eurocentric and good. Who but these courageous Anglo-Saxon souls can save Middle Earth from the dark and evil forces of the world?”

Perhaps you begin to catch her drift. [‘Lord of the Rings’ vs. ‘Matrix’: Patriarchy vs. the Rainbow Coalition, Jan 05, 2004]

Miss Lewis thinks “Lord of the Rings” is bad because it reflects white racial and patriarchal stereotypes, and as a matter of fact, it probably does.

That’s because those “stereotypes” are integral to the complex tale of civilizational struggle that Tolkien was telling, a tale that thoroughly modern multiculturalists would prefer had never seen cold print because it also happens to be the tale of our real civilization.

It’s the tale of our real civilization because the kings, warriors and heroes who led us have always been manly men who really were whiter than white, and that just might have had something to do with why they won the struggle against their civilization’s enemies, medieval and modern, at all.

That, of course, is what Miss Lewis and her pals at the SPLC don’t like.

What they do like is “The Matrix,” the endless, tedious and incomprehensible special effects film series for teeny boppers that features the non-white and mixed race heroes Miss Lewis and her multiculturalist friends demand. As she writes in comparing the two films:

“Neo, the [Matrix] trilogy’s central figure, is played by mixed-race actor Keanu Reeves. His savior and mentor is Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), a powerful leader who also happens to be a black man. The wisest figure in ‘The Matrix’ is the Oracle, a warm and witty African American woman.

“The films also are infused with a strong sense of Asian style and culture, exemplified by the character Seraph (Collin Chou) who is both a martial arts expert and Buddhist meditation practitioner.”

Perhaps here too you catch her drift.

The drift is that what Miss Lewis and the SPLC boys who chose to reprint her article like is not “tolerance” and what they oppose is not “hate.”

What they oppose is any positive portrayal of white people.

What they like is any production that writes whites out of the picture.

Well, not entirely. Another reason Miss Lewis likes “The Matrix” is that it depicts whites as villains.

“Most of the really bad guys in ‘The Matrix’,” she gloats, “are Euro,” including a Frenchman, two British albino twins [Peter and John Brimelow write: hey!] and “a rather stuffy and pompous white guy with white beard and white suit who reeks of imperialism.”

What she really approves of is any production that not only demotes whites from heroic roles but serves to demonize them in new anti-white stereotypes. Nothing more clearly exposes the SPLC’s real anti-white agenda than Miss Lewis’ silly article. The “multiculturalism” that obsesses her and the SPLC is just as steeped in hate—of whites—as any of the goof balls they “investigate” (and maybe a good deal more). It’s just hate of a different hue.

The fact is that “Lord of the Rings” is an important, beautiful and entirely healthy movie, more or less faithfully based on an important, beautiful and entirely healthy book, which itself draws from some of the deepest springs of Western culture—the myths and folklore of Northern Europe—and tells an important, beautiful and entirely healthy story that white Western men need to hear.

That story is about how the enemies of their civilization were crushed by manly men (and hobbits) who had the strength and courage to fight back.

I understand why people like Miss Lewis and the SPLC don’t much care for it.





Comments from Readers


From: Brett L.

Sam Francis is H. L. Mencken reincarnated, and this article contains his typically brilliant wit and prose. How many times have you heard, "It's a black thing"? Or have you noticed the exclusivity of the black clothing line FUBU - For Us BY Us?

Well, Ms. Lewis, LOTR is a white thing, and thank God an unapologetically Eurocentric movie (or three) can still be made in Hollywood (come to think of it, they had to go to New Zealand...But it was Hollywood cash). I have to admit, though, I half expected a black elf to show up on screen at some point.

You know there were some serious discussions on how to handle the "diversity" issue when these films were being cast. I'm going to speculate that it was Peter Jackson's conviction to be true to the books that trumped the arguments of those who would have bowed down to the multi-culties. May God bless the responsible party(ies).

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From: M. Scott

Actually, the movies toned down the material considerably from Tolkein's books. In the books, the evil orcs were decribed as black, with flat noses and long, ape-like arms (know anyone like this?) The emphasis was on how semi-humanoid they were. If we had them living in the United States (and I'm not really saying we don't), they'd be referred to as some type of hyphenated-American and given preferential treatment by members of the bed-wetting classes, who honestly seem to approve of evil, stupidity and laziness.

In the movie, the orcs were (caucasian) flesh-tone or (in Moria) light gray. Only the half-orc, half-human Uruk Hai of Isengard were the right (dark) color. The producers were being a little cautious. From a multi-culti standpoint, Tolkein's work is positively radioactive.

Other enemies of western men (men of Gondor and the northlands) included tribes of evil men who sided with Sauron. In the movies, these were regular Caucasian actors, with exotic-looking clothing and armor. In the books, the Southrons and Haradrim were always, without exception described as "swarthy" (dark). These swarthy men weren't just victims of circumstance, as in the Silmarillion (prequel) they tended to side with Morgoth (Sauron's old boss) and the orcs, trolls, balrogs and nasty whatnots against white men, white elves and white dwarves thousands of years before the War of the Ring was fought.

The racial overtones of the story were considerably lightened for the films, and with this in mind, the SPLC ought to shut up. Further, there is no shortage of movies one can go see (if one can stomache them) in which Orcish-Americans save everyone at the films' climax.

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From: Brett L.

I don't think there is anything overtly or implicitly racist about the LOTR books (although sorcerers may now join the procession of the aggrieved). Yes, the men from the south were described as swarthy, but Tolkein was using the British Isles as a model, and he was probably thinking of north African corsairs and Moors as a reference.

I recall reading an article on a Jewish website claiming that Tolkein had compared Jews to his dwarves (insular and fond of gold and gems), but that seems a pretty mild comment. The article also claimed that, in the 1930s, the Third Reich contacted Tolkein to inquire if he was of Teutonic stock (he was) as his books wouldn't be translated into German unless he was. Tolkein more or less told the Nazis to shove it.

The article also claimed that Tolkein reserved his wrath most for the Normans, whom he despised because they invaded England during the 12th Century. That's holding a grudge.

You do have a point that the film makers likely avoided using dark-skinned bad guys where they could avoid it.

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From: John P. M.

The PC/Marxist types will harp on anything! This is yet another example of just how far they will go. You can't even enjoy a film anymore.

It is interesting to me that SPLC/Ms.Lewis, would extoll the virtues of the Matrix. This probably reflects on her/their rather surface oriented inability to look at some of the other implications of that film series.

Has anyone else ever been struck with the rather barbaric and crude society of the "real" world and its multi-cultural heros vs the civilized and structured society of the "Matrix" and the white villians. For example, contrast "the woman in the red dress sequence" in the first film, with the Woodstock meets a RAP orgey "dance sequence" of the second?

In part I wtite this tongue in cheek. However, my other point is this, if you look hard enough at anything you will see what you want!

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From: M. Scott

Tolkein might seem strange for having resented the Norman invasion of 1066. One assumes that as an Anglo-Saxon, he approved of the Saxon invasion of Britain 500 years earlier (or the Romans before that.). As someone who is overwhelmingly Celtic, I must express my disapproval of each, and as a descendant of Historically Aggrieved Persons, I am now demanding reparations from the governments of Germany, Denmark, France, Norway, and Italy.

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