What does it mean to Write in the Spirit of Tolkien?

[Celuien]

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

Interesting thoughts here! I see that Celuien just couldn't resist moving the discussion to Books!

Of course not. The dicussion was far too interesting to stop where we were.

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

You mean, his curious ways of sidestepping the issue of moral choice and redemption of orcs?

Well, I was referring to lmp's point about cursing and cleaning up orcish language.
But it extends to moral choice as well, I think. I suppose getting into that knotty point about the orcs might have loosened the rather clear cut roles they play throughout the Legendarium as out and out 'baddies.' Not sure where I'm going with this line of thought, though. I'm working on running out the door to go to a meeting and can't attend to it properly just now. More later...