He was interviewed by top US weekly magazine 'World' on 20 December 2003 and at the launch of Lord of the Rings in Hollywood. He said to reporters: "I think that Tolkien says that some generations will be challenged. And if they do not rise to meet that challenge, they will lose their civilization…. There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about…. By 2020, fifty percent of the children in Holland under the age of 18 will be of Muslim descent."

According to John Rhys-Davies, there are clear parallels between the threat posed to Tolkien's fictional 'West' by armies of monstrous Orcs and wicked Southrons, and the real-life challenge posed to our Western civilization by large-scale non-white immigration.

Rhys-Davies told journalists attending the premiere of Return of the King : "There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially. And rightly we should be. But there is a cultural thing as well… By 2020, fifty percent of the children in Holland under the age of 18 will be of Muslim descent." "And don't forget, coupled with this there is this collapse of numbers. Western Europeans are not having any babies. The population of Germany at the end of the century is going to be 56% of what it is now. The populations of France, 52% of what it is now. The population of Italy is going to be down 7 million people."

"I think that Tolkien says that some generations will be challenged. And if they do not rise to meet that challenge, they will lose their civilization. That does have a real resonance with me."

He recalled a talk he held with his father back in 1955 when the family was living in Tanzania. His father said "... militant Islam is on the rise again. And you will see it in your lifetime." Although his father has since passed on, Rhys-Davies said that "there's not a day that goes by that I don't think of him and think, 'God, I wish you were here, just so I could tell you that you were right.'" "Stand, Men of the West !" "Stand, Men of the West !"

Rhys-Davies knows that such views are politically incorrect, but feels he has to speak out because, unlike the liberal-leftists who infest the mass media : "I am for dead white male culture." He went on : "You do realize that in this town (Hollywood), what I've been saying is rather like, sort of oh well, I can't find a comparable blasphemy ... but we've got to get a bit serious. What is unconscionable is that too many of your fellow journalists do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From it, we get the sort of intellectual tolerance that allows me to propound something that may be completely alien to you around this table."

"I'm burying my career so substantially in these interviews that it's painful. But I think that there are some questions that demand honest answers."