Do Tolkien’s Depictions Of Dwarves In The Hobbit Prove That He Was An Antisemite?

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Do Tolkien’s Depictions Of Dwarves In The Hobbit Prove That He Was An Antisemite?

In an interview, Tolkien, while not specifically characterizing the Jews as warlike, nonetheless spoke to an explicit connection with biblical characterizations of the Jews, with the biblical narrative describing many wars of conquest, much as Tolkien does in The Return of the King, the third book of his trilogy; in a BBC interview, he referred to the immense warlike capacity of the Jews, which we tend to forget nowadays.