Lord of the Rings called anti-African, students outraged on campus

MS ^ | Robert Milakovic

[River Hawk]

Students at the University of Nottingham are upset after a history course labeled J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings as racially offensive.

The controversy comes from a module called Decolonising Tolkien et al, taught by historian Dr. Onyeka Nubia, which examines how British literature has historically reflected racial bias. According to course materials, darker-skinned characters in Tolkien’s works, including orcs and other groups, are depicted as morally corrupt, while lighter-skinned characters are shown as virtuous. The module argues these depictions tie into a long tradition of racial stereotyping.

The course also examines how Tolkien’s Eastern characters, such as Easterlings, Southrons, and the men of Harad, are portrayed as inherently evil.

The materials claim that Tolkien’s fictional races carry echoes of “anti-African antipathy,” portraying Africans as “the natural enemy of the white man.” Students are taught to consider literature through the lens of decolonization, analyzing established works from non-Western or non-white perspectives.

Dr. Nubia has written about how Africans lived in medieval England but were often erased from literature, and the course also extends its critique to C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, highlighting orientalist depictions of the Calormen. Shakespeare has also been discussed, with Dr. Nubia stating that his plays helped create an “illusion” of a racially homogenous England by omitting references to Africans.

[Organic Panic]

“Decolonising Tolkien et al, taught by historian Dr. Onyeka Nubia”

Where else but a university could such a useless stupid person be employed?

[Stosh]

“Possibly. Tolkien said something to the effect that evil cannot create, it can only mock.”

Don’t tell that to the ‘gay marriage’ crowd. . .

[Organic Panic]

We wuz orcz

[Republican Wildcat]

The materials claim that Tolkien’s fictional races carry echoes of “anti-African antipathy,” portraying Africans as “the natural enemy of the white man.” Students are taught to consider literature through the lens of decolonization, analyzing established works from non-Western or non-white perspectives.

Taught to be stupid and believe stupid things some person with too much time on their hands thought up.

A less than worthless course. And people are employed to "teach" this stupidity.

[Reily]

An academic position created for the purpose of having more women, nonwhites and sexual deviants in the faculty lounge.

[Telepathic Intruder]

I wouldn’t be the first to call it a mockery of marriage. An abomination, even. Whatever it is, it’s not marriage.

[BFW]

And yet who does the most violence in the world? Stabbings, knife attacks, genocidal warfare against unarmed civilizations? p.o.c people of color black, brown, arab

muslems

ORCS indeed!

[Disambiguator]

And goblinz....

[Rummyfan]

Ohh... eff them!

[SisterK]

its always about racism with some folks

what a poor and small existence

[Rummyfan]

“I am Aragorn son of Arathorn...

Strider....

[Rummyfan]

You can certainly make a movie like “Wakanda” however...

Are all those Africanb-Americans still booking trips to Wakanbda?!

[fr_freak]

Just more proof that academia has run out of worthwhile subject matter.

I don't think that's what's going on here. You'll notice that the name of this "academic" is Dr. Onyeka Nubia, which suggests a person with little ties to Western culture, but perhaps more than a little resentment. Should fit right in with the communists who run Western academia now.

[rllngrk33]

Nick Shirley disturbed America's Orcs and Swarthy Men from their feasting at Minnesota's government trough - will a Theoden emerge to ride in and smash them completely?

Mike Lindel with the aid of Trump and Vance?

[simpson96]

Well, it’s one way to make money and get street cred, with his useless-to-society degrees and career path...