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<blockquote data-quote="MonsterEnvy" data-source="post: 8757176" data-attributes="member: 6706188"><p>It looks like my comment on your site did not publish. So I will post my comment about your statement about Tolkien’s Orc here.</p><p></p><p>I am pretty sure you are wrong about Tolkien’s orcs being his views of indigenous peoples like Native Americans. For one Tolkien had little interaction with Native Americans due to being British and not traveling to meet any. The closest thing was a stated interest in their folklore and their connection to the forest things he was interested in. Orcs were also not at all like them, not even being similar to stereotypes, as they were advanced industrialists feeding a war machine, and desolating the natural world. Tolkien had a distaste for industrialization and viewed simple rural life as superior to it. Tolkien’s orcs were more of a vague invading other and don’t map too well to any particular foreign culture. And he still did not view them as irredeemable as that went against his views.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MonsterEnvy, post: 8757176, member: 6706188"] It looks like my comment on your site did not publish. So I will post my comment about your statement about Tolkien’s Orc here. I am pretty sure you are wrong about Tolkien’s orcs being his views of indigenous peoples like Native Americans. For one Tolkien had little interaction with Native Americans due to being British and not traveling to meet any. The closest thing was a stated interest in their folklore and their connection to the forest things he was interested in. Orcs were also not at all like them, not even being similar to stereotypes, as they were advanced industrialists feeding a war machine, and desolating the natural world. Tolkien had a distaste for industrialization and viewed simple rural life as superior to it. Tolkien’s orcs were more of a vague invading other and don’t map too well to any particular foreign culture. And he still did not view them as irredeemable as that went against his views. [/QUOTE]
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