> ...Amazon isn't rewriting his books. That raises a kind of interesting point. They aren't rewriting his books, they are rewriting his world. Tolkien started

> ...Amazon isn't rewriting his books. That raises a kind of interesting point. They aren't rewriting his books, they are rewriting his world. Tolkien started out with a hobby of creating languages. He then was inspired to build worlds in which those languages would live. His fiction came out of a desire to have adventures in those worlds. I've read descriptions of Tolkien's dealings with people who wanted to adapt his published stories for film. He was quite ready to accept modifications to the stories to fit the needs of another medium, so long as the main thrust of the narrative was preserved. What would really draw his ire, though, was when people tampered with his world. All that said, though, his writings, especially later in life, give me the impression that if it were explained to him that racial diversity was to become the hang-up for people that it has, he would have sought to modify his stories to avoid giving offense.