- "The Wretched of Middle-Earth: An Orkish Manifesto" | In this previously unpublished essay, political philosopher Charles Mills argues that J. R. R. Tolkien has designed a racial hierarchy in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings that recapitulates the central racist myth of European thought. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/sjp.12477 11 comments philosophy