The Tolkien Society’s seminar on “Tolkien and diversity”
10 September 2021 | Beyond Bree, September, 2021: Diversity issue, 2
Perhaps it started when Elyanna Choi (who identifies as non-white) was speaking on a panel at Tolkien 2019, when she was treated discourteously by members of the audience. She voiced her anger online and in “My Statement on ‘Tolkien 2019’,” published in Mythprint Summer ’20. This was not well received. Italian and English NeoNazi and White Supremacist groups have adopted Tolkien’s works [see “‘Hobbit camps’ and Italian fascism,” Beyond Bree, Jan ’18], [as] have members in the Tolkien Society.…
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