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Yesterday an expert on radio explained to me why the 'Lord of the Rings' is not racist. At least he wanted to. But I did not understand. Ok, I have to admit, I never read or watched the 'Lord of the Rings'. But as far as I understood the criticism was that in the book and/or the film the 'good guys' were light and the 'bad guys' dark. That could well be a reproduction of racist stereotypes. But the expert did not talk about that. He talked about 'races' which exist both among animals and humans. Then he started to analyse the 'Lord of the Rings' and talked about who could get children with whom. And since the 'light' ones and the 'dark' ones could get children (or something like that), it was proven that the 'Lord of the Rings' was not racist. I did not understand this. Or did he not understand it?