Tolkien was a turkophobic fascist!

**Proto-Shaman** · 09-20-2017, 02:47 AM

Sumerian-Turkic Turanian warrior with Mongol hairstyle from Uruk. Demonization/Ugly barbarian appearance is characteristic:

EVEN ARABS (Haradrim) are portrayed as normal human beings

**~~Profileid~~** · 09-20-2017, 02:49 AM

i hate u

**Arduti** · 09-20-2017, 02:49 AM

Yikes, maybe you're the Turkophobe if you are saying Turks look like that! lol

**Smeagol** · 09-20-2017, 02:49 AM

No he wasn't.

**Proto-Shaman** · 09-20-2017, 02:50 AM

Originally Posted by Smeagol

No he wasn't.

why not?

**Smeagol** · 09-20-2017, 02:52 AM

Originally Posted by Kipchak Håkan

why not?

Because there's no evidence of it. Orcs, nor anything else in his books were based on Turks.

**Proto-Shaman** · 09-20-2017, 02:52 AM

Originally Posted by Etain

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i <3 u

**Dick** · 09-20-2017, 02:53 AM

JRR Tolkien was inspired by Serbian Epic poetries of wars with Turks while writing his trilogy. He even knew how to speak and read Serbian so you may have a point there.

**Arduti** · 09-20-2017, 02:56 AM

Originally Posted by Dick

JRR Tolkien was inspired by Serbian Epic poetries of wars with Turks while writing his trilogy. He even knew how to speak and read Serbian so you may have a point there.

I always heard they were based on Norse myths

**Proto-Shaman** · 09-20-2017, 02:58 AM

Originally Posted by Smeagol

Because there's no evidence of it. Orcs, nor anything else in his books were based on Turks.

T(orc)?

Tolkien describes Orcs explicitly in one of his Letters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc_(Middle-earth)

...they are (or were) squat, broad, flat-nosed, sallow-skinned, with wide mouths and slant eyes; in fact degraded and repulsive versions of the (to Europeans) least lovely Mongol-types.[15]