Where did all the goblins go?

[littlemanpoet]

Originally Posted by The 1,000 Reader

With a united, peaceful kingdom being Aragorn's goal, and with no evil being to rally under, it is likely that the orcs all died. As for crossed myths and such, beings such as Grendel could just be like the Watcher in the Water.

Nyet. Grendel's lineage is, in Beowulf, traced from Cain, eldest son of Adam and Eve. At least that's the mythological construction the author of Beowulf uses.

But I have proof that orcs outlived Sauron: Tolkien in his Letters to his son Christopher repeatedly referred to "orcs on both sides of the war" and such like; apparently, they merged with the races of Men.

And Selmo, are you sure you haven't been reading any "Assigned to Mordor" rpgs lately? "Orcs as the glue of society" is just plain hilarious.