Tolkien Black
character on "South Park"
Tolkien Black is a fictional character in the adult animated television series South Park. He was voiced by Trey Parker in early appearances, but South Park art director Adrien Beard took over in 2000 and has performed the character since. Until 2022, the character's name was Token Black as a play on tokenism, and he formerly had the last name "Williams". His name was retconned in the episode "The Big Fix" to be Tolkien, after J. R. R. Tolkien, though earlier episodes now have his name spelled Tolkien in the closed captioning.
Biography
Tolkien attends South Park Elementary, initially as a third-grade student of Mr. Garrison's class before moving up to fourth-grade.
He was originally the only black student attending the school until Nichole Daniels was introduced in "Cartman Finds Love".
Residing in South Park, he is the only child and son of Steve and Linda Black, who were originally the only African American family in the town until the Daniels family first appeared.
Character
Creation and design
Tolkien debuted in the series' first episode, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", though having no spoken lines. He was composed with construction paper and animated through stop motion.
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