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I don't know why that other topic about "races" in Rings of Power was removed. Even if tc was "baiting" it is something we should be able to freely discuss (doesnt break any TOS) and nobody was being bigoted.

I just wanted to repeat that race is a social construct to categorize humans. Yes, different alleles that were endemic to specific regions has caused physical variations but we are all of the same species.

Fictional fantasy books have consistently misused "race" when they mean "species". It was a common misunderstanding back when Tolkien originally wrote LotR and it wasn't like he was a trained biologist to know better.

Hobbits, Orcs, Elves, Dwarves, etc are different species; not races. And there should be no surprise that there would be different variations within those species (that would include dark skin).