Tolkien explicitly made his entire LotR mythos a foundational myth for Europe and Great Britain. That's why all the characters are white, and why non-whites are said to exist far away in the east and south. At most, he said some of the races have a darker complexion, but that's meant to indicate a more swarthy European complexion.
Tolkien explicitly made his entire LotR mythos a foundational myth for Europe and Great Britain. That's why all the characters are white, and why non-whites are said to exist far away in the east and south. At most, he said some of the races have a darker complexion, but that's meant to indicate a more swarthy European complexion.