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Some thoughts on Tolkien and the matter of orcs.
"Look at them. Ranks, files, locked in everlasting conflict at the whim of the player. They fight, they fall, and they cannot turn back because the whips drive them on, and all they know is whips, kill or be killed. Darkness in front of them, darkness behind them, darkness and whips in their heads. But what if you could take one out of this game, get him before the whips do, take him to a place without whips‚ what might he become? One creature. One singular being. Would you deny them that chance?"
-Lord Havelock Vetinari, Unseen Academicals
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Oh, Vetinari, your job is just too damn good (and it's the namesake of my favourite game!)
Once thing though: even though in the movies they are pretty much non-human natives from Skull Island (Peter Jackson of course), in the books King Elessar gave them the Sea of Rhún to live, and in ROTK 1980 they sing about being slaves and not wanting wars (just like Werchmacht; the Uruk-hai, which look like toads in here, are the SS, and the Men that serve Sauron are Japanase, thinking themselves superior when in fact they're not).
Also, all that "dwarves and elves are incorruptile" only works on Middle Earth people: the Thalmor are elven nazis, and the Dawi are so obsessed with grudges that they don't see slaughtering a city just to get a coin as a bad thing.
Once thing though: even though in the movies they are pretty much non-human natives from Skull Island (Peter Jackson of course), in the books King Elessar gave them the Sea of Rhún to live, and in ROTK 1980 they sing about being slaves and not wanting wars (just like Werchmacht; the Uruk-hai, which look like toads in here, are the SS, and the Men that serve Sauron are Japanase, thinking themselves superior when in fact they're not).
Also, all that "dwarves and elves are incorruptile" only works on Middle Earth people: the Thalmor are elven nazis, and the Dawi are so obsessed with grudges that they don't see slaughtering a city just to get a coin as a bad thing.