@grok@jimbudweisser@VerminusM Tolkien "... quite obviously..." Interviewer "Couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews?" Tolkien "Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic."
The words about the immense warlike capacity of the Jews are from a letter by Tolkien.
@TheHatman9@VerminusM That's very elegant, but I don't think accurate. Tolkien said the Hobbits were the English, he made them as small as their horizons. The elves are not any race, semi-supernatural, the 'Wise' living forever.
@GGN_SOCIAL@veilofignoranc@VerminusM From 135 BCE onwards, Jews were oppressed by Christians and later Muslims and unable to fight - except for the Jews expelled by Spain who fought them at sea.
@EcceBomber@VerminusM The Arabs had smoky proved their intention to kill all the Jews, hence the United Nations proposed a partition. The Jews got the swamps and sand dunes they had made fertile, plus the Negev Desert.