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: Just a thought, but who would be living in any hypothetical Balrog kingdom? A bunch of orcs ? It would be fairly pointless for the Balrog wouldŽnt it. Would any of you care to lord it over a tribe of Chimps ?

As has been pointed out, orcs were more then just mindless cannon (crossbow??) fodder. They did have a sense of community, honor, courage, even, to some degree, a social order. More then that, if there was a hypothetical Balrog kingdom, it would contain more then orcs. Using Sauron's own Mordor as a model, men and trolls would most likely be a part of the overall structure.

Of course, mine is all conjecture. Mr. Martinez would probably be better able to provide the overall social structure of the orcs of Mordor, which would give a better theoretical structure for a hypothetical Balrog kingdom in Moria.

-RR