I do not regard the (probable) abscence of all Jewish blood as necessary honourable; and I have many Jewish friends, and should regret giving any colour to the notion that I subscribed to the wholly pernicious and unscientific race-doctrine
(Letter n°29, 1938, en réponse à un éditeur allemand qui demandait s'il était aryen)
The Nùmenoreans of Gondor where proud, peculiar, and archaic, and I think they are best pictured in (say) Egyptian terms. In many ways they resembled "Egyptians" - the love of, and power to construct, the gigantic and massive. And in their great interest in ancestry and in tombs. (But not of course in "theology" : in which respect they were Hebraic and even more puritan - but this would take long to set out : to explain indeed why there is practically no overt "religion", or rather religious act or places or ceremonies among the "good" or anti-Sauron peoples in The Lord of the Rings).
(Letter n°211, 1958)

