JonnyDBrit
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Doesn't that just make it worse, though? It took white missionaries to get them to see the error of their ways?
There's a lot of weird subtext you can get out of the fact that every major named character of note if they have a humanoid form, even the villains, is in the presumed default state of being white and damned pretty. So in this example, not only were the people of the east aided by 'white missionaries', but they were also doing the bidding of someone whose preferred disguise was a gorgeous white guy. The world of Tolkien simply is run by white people (even if those are only their corporeal forms), and there's not much getting around that fact.