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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9260408" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>That's a slight misunderstanding of his philosophical problem. After writing LOTR, Tolkien struggled with the fact that people were taking his books seriously, and one of the philosophical problems he had was that he didn't feel he portrayed orcs in LOTR as being inherently evil and unredeemable enough. He also struggled therefore with the origin of orcs as elves (or humans or both) because he didn't like implying that Melkor could so corrupt something of Illuvatar's (other than himself) such that it was effectively ruined and defeated. It would be fine to suggest that Melkor could corrupt an individual, but he rejected that Melkor could corrupt a race of elves (or men) so far as to make them irredeemable. He therefore began to wish that he'd portrayed orcs as more robotic puppets and less like they had personality or independent thought. He never was anything but fully committed to orcs as little demonic figures there were instruments of diabolical tyranny, and so never struggled with the idea that they should be opposed and slain. He only struggled with the mythopoeic justification for that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 9260408, member: 4937"] That's a slight misunderstanding of his philosophical problem. After writing LOTR, Tolkien struggled with the fact that people were taking his books seriously, and one of the philosophical problems he had was that he didn't feel he portrayed orcs in LOTR as being inherently evil and unredeemable enough. He also struggled therefore with the origin of orcs as elves (or humans or both) because he didn't like implying that Melkor could so corrupt something of Illuvatar's (other than himself) such that it was effectively ruined and defeated. It would be fine to suggest that Melkor could corrupt an individual, but he rejected that Melkor could corrupt a race of elves (or men) so far as to make them irredeemable. He therefore began to wish that he'd portrayed orcs as more robotic puppets and less like they had personality or independent thought. He never was anything but fully committed to orcs as little demonic figures there were instruments of diabolical tyranny, and so never struggled with the idea that they should be opposed and slain. He only struggled with the mythopoeic justification for that. [/QUOTE]
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