Quote Originally Posted by Bohandas View Post
How can the author mean something that they don't mean? If it was done purely to copy Tolkien and for no other reason than reading it as a racial allegory or anything else of that nature is ipso facto incorrect.

It's not fair to criticize an author for some random readers' headcanons.
It is absolutely fair to criticize someone for something they didn't intend, if that thing is still harmful. You don't have to intend to cause harm in order to be harmful. That is exactly what the recent decisions by WotC and Paizo, to de-emphasize absolute or even predominant racial morality (among the intelligent humanoids anyway), are meant to address.