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Posted by Goodgulf on July 27, 2000 at 13:10:00 In Reply to: Re: So.. posted by Michael Martinez on July 22, 2000 at 16:32:39:
: The Hobbits of the Shire had Bounders, and no doubt the Thain would have dealt with anyone who didn't want to listen to the Bounders. The Ruffians were brought in as laborers, so they got an inside edge that most outsiders normally wouldn't have. : And the Hobbits of Bree showed they weren't going to take it from any outsiders, either. : And then there is the fact that Elves would kill all trespassers on their lands in the First Age, unless the trespassers could show they had some legitimate business there. The only analogy I can think of is regular war. In World War II the German army was the enemy, and it was expected of the Allies to kill or capture as many as possible. That doen't mean that all German soldiers were evil. But the Nazi government and its "plan" for world domination were evil. Other than when orcs are attacking or on some mission, we see nothing of what they are like "at home" and relaxing - if there was such a thing for them. It seems hard to imagine an orc bouncing its baby on its knee in front of the fireplace, or reading a good Stephen King novel, and I imagine that most people have the same problem. We are so used to orcs being the "bad guys" that it's hard to find any redeeming qualities. But that doesn't mean that orcs had no redeeming qualities or were incapable of redemption. If they could not be redeemed then perhaps killing them was a favor, releasing them from the torment of their existance.
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