> By comparison, if you want to see what racism in fantasy looks like, look at Tolkein's contemporary, Lewis, and his Calormene… I don't believe that there was

> By comparison, if you want to see what racism in fantasy looks like, look at Tolkein's contemporary, Lewis, and his Calormene… I don't believe that there was anything racist in Lewis's attitude to the Calormenes. They weren't inherently evil people, although their culture was in most parts bad and in some parts evil. Note the young Calormene Emeth who is saved in The Last Battle.