Orcs, the unwanted people.... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 09-06-2002, 08:15 PM

Okay, I'll bite (pardon the pun).

Nar: Did you ever consider that orcs like being orcs? For the sake of comparison, I remember the bullies back in all years of school prior to college - yes - maybe they had psychosomatic and social reasons for why they were the way they were, but could it possibly be that they just liked causing trouble, pain, humiliation and all that? That keeps me from pitying orcs. Haradrim are another matter. Sam pitied the dead Haradrim in Ithilien, and that seemed right - the guy was probably a family man. It's hard to imagine an orc guy as a family man, he'd probably eat the little tiks before consuming his wench, eh?

Tolkien was wont to characterize certain developments in the England of his time as 'orcish'.

09-06-2002, 08:15 PM	#9
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Okay, I'll bite (pardon the pun). Nar: Did you ever consider that orcs like being orcs? For the sake of comparison, I remember the bullies back in all years of school prior to college - yes - maybe they had psychosomatic and social reasons for why they were the way they were, but could it possibly be that they just liked causing trouble, pain, humiliation and all that? That keeps me from pitying orcs. Haradrim are another matter. Sam pitied the dead Haradrim in Ithilien, and that seemed right - the guy was probably a family man. It's hard to imagine an orc guy as a family man, he'd probably eat the little tiks before consuming his wench, eh? Tolkien was wont to characterize certain developments in the England of his time as 'orcish'.