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Storm is black in the comics and was played by Halle Berry in the first X-Men movies lol. Jannies shut it down fast 
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Why accept this premise? How about no, there wasn't a lack of black people in LotR because it wasn't about black people. And there's no objective metric for how many sub-Saharans belong in some white guy's imaginary world based on English history.
Secondly, they don't believe in their own subjective standard anyways. They wouldn't say a fantasy world made by a black author and based on Zulu history lacked white people and required race swapping.
So what does that leave? Nothing. Their 'standard' is just a vacuous personal preference about someone else's creation and they don't even believe in it anyways.
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There were plenty of sub-Saharan types in Tolkien's fantasy world, they were off on the bottom edge of the map. They were ruled by evil kings under Sauron and fought in his armies. There's a note about Aragorn bringing them freedom and peace. You could have a story that expands on them, but that wouldn't accomplish the mayocide of the existing story
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You're completely right, but even accepting that "English history" matters is accepting that stories must reflect the racial background of the world as a precondition to being non-racist.
The story he wanted to tell involved the author's take on Englishmen, for whatever reason, or lack of reason, the author felt.
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We wuz numenoreans and sheet
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Aragorn being swapped to black isn't even the most egregious thing, they made fricking Galadriel black!!!
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