Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26815144-20170110085924/@comment-26149161-20170127234128

Loke Khan Torgou of Rhun wrote: Dragonovith wrote:

Loke Khan Torgou of Rhun wrote: Why do I never get support from other people with the same beliefs as me but you guys do? It is unfair tbh. Let me tell you why: You aren't being reasonable and you're aggressively pushing the Easterlings to a "level of strength and skill" that they don't have. Yes, they are a barbaric and savage people, and Tolkien never hid his favoritism toward the "greater races", in this case, the Gondorians. It doesn't matter how ~cool~ the Easterling armor seems to be in the movies, because they are a "lesser" people and lesser in all society and culture matters. Call it racism if you want, but that's how Tolkien envisioned his world and no one can deny that. But these aren't toliken's easterlings... Also I never knew empires could be considered barbaric. All Easterling factions, no matter if a directly mentioned one or not, are considered "Tolkien's". They have to fit within his theme. For the same reason we can't invent a Eriador faction with muskets, they have to fit the books.

And you clearly have never heard of Ghengis Khan.

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lome) 23:41, January 27, 2017 (UTC)