Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth

Robert Stuart is Associate Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia, Australia. His research output has focused on the history of French Marxism, but is now concentrated on the ideological dimension of contemporary genre fantasy literature.

• Chapter 1:  Introduction:  Reflections on Writing about Tolkien and Race.- Chapter 2:  Tolkien, Race, and the Critics:  Debating Racism in Middle-earth.- Chapter 3:  Manichean Racism?  Black and White and Blacks and Whites.- Chapter 4:  Race War in Middle-earth:  The Orcs, Genocide, and Ethnic Cleansing.- Chapter 5: Blood and Soil:  Language, Myth, and their Racial Roots.- Chapter 6: Tolkien and Anti-Semitism:  The Jewish Question and the Question of the Dwarves.- Chapter 7. Aristocratic Racism:  Gobineau in Gondor.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

“Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth is still an extremely valuable contribution to Tolkien Studies, and it represents the most thorough treatment thus far of these matters. … Sturat’s book provides important research for such acknowledgement and analysis, and is therefore a worthy addition to the Tolkien scholar’s library.” (Robert T. Tally, Mythlore, Vol. 41 (1), October, 2022)