NP Tolkien Picks Up A Few More Bits Of Cultural Baggage

[Dave Monroe]

Speaking of baggage ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> God no. Life's too short. Just pointing out the
> obvious. I.e., that "race" does not equal "species".
> And that "racism" is a *human* phenomenon.

... not to mention "the text(s)," e.g. ...

"Yet it is held by the wise of Eressëa, that all those
of the Quendi who came into the hands of Melkor, ere
Utumno was broken were put there in prison, and by
slow arts of cruelty were corrupted and enslaved; and
thus did Melkor breed the hideous race of the Orcs in
envy and mockery of the elves." (Silmarillion, p. 50)

http://www.fortunecity.com/athena/emerald/236/fateoforcs.html

"... a race of rational incarnate creatures, though
horribly corrupted." (Letters, p. 287)

http://tolkien.slimy.com/tlfaq/DwarfEnemyMisc.html

... which (spoiler alert, apparently) were actually   
written by a twentieth-century human (and don't get me
started on The Name of the Rose).  And see also ...

http://meduseld.tripod.com/orcs.html

http://tolkien.slimy.com/faq/Creatures.html#Orcs

This I thought was esp. interesting ...

http://tothink.com/orcs/

Jackson really does have an eye for detail.  Everyone
I know mentions those elven leaf-shaped brooches ...

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