The idea of an all-white Medieval European society is fallacious as well! Racists think Black people were invented, oh, about 400 years ago on the West Coast of Africa. We just "popped up" in order to be human trafficked across the Atlantic to be enslaved. Black people indeed were part of Medieval Europe, as the excellent site Medieval POC excellently documents: https://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/ So their protestations about Black people being part of Middle Earth as inaccurate is just WRONG. Thank you for writing such a terrific exposé on the thinly-veiled racism behind complaints regarding more inclusive sci-fi and fantasy.