• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    I mean, the key distinction between orcs and elves was that orcs were selectively bred by an evil sorcerer for cruelty and malice, and tortured for generations to achieve this…

    It’s not like you can just live peacefully with orcs, they fundamentally won’t allow it because coexistence is incompatible with their raison d’etre.

    It would be like a Ukrainian having a dagger that glows when russians are near. A net positive.

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        2 days ago

        Not sure what point you’re trying to make exactly. I swear, some of your comments are almost as bad as the user youcantreadthis.

        But yeah, anyone who wants to make a racialized critique of Tolkien’s depiction of orcs is really telling on themselves. Like, “I didn’t interpret there to be any symbolic connection between orcs and IRL racial minorities. Did you?”