To be completely fair they lived in a world where there actually were real differences between the races. In our world racism is silly because there aren't any actually relevant differences between the races, but the differences between elves, men, and dwarves are very real in middle earth. Not enough to pull everyone over a comb (to use a swedish proverb), but at least there's some substance to it.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There used to be different types of people on earth but we likely killed them all cause of racism 😞

Imagine if we still had other humanoids walking around

[–] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I thought the latest research was pointing more toward homogenisation of the species through interbreeding rather than strictly competition or other factors.

OK so I was way off. This has info I was thinking of.

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