• RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Mongol-type or Mongoloid are terms that described Down’s Syndrome iirc. I don’t think it’s being used in a racial context beyond the obvious modern problems with those terms.

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      7 months ago

      I think it’s pretty obvious from the rest of the sentence that Tolkien is explicitly using "Mongol-type"as a racial descriptor; “sallow” is referring to skin color, “slanted eyes” speaks for itself, and the fact that he explicitly references European beauty standards are all providing contextual evidence that Tolkien is using Eastern Asians as the physical model for orcs