You are not being a serious person if you insist that Tolkien's use of the word "swarthy" is in the same galaxy as Lovecraft's virulently racist poetry. Tolkien's letters are anti-racist and anti-Nazi. Lovecraft's are openly racist, anti-immigrant, and anti-semetic.
You are not being a serious person if you insist that Tolkien's use of the word "swarthy" is in the same galaxy as Lovecraft's virulently racist poetry. Tolkien's letters are anti-racist and anti-Nazi. Lovecraft's are openly racist, anti-immigrant, and anti-semetic.