NP Tolkien Picks Up A Few More Bits Of Cultural Baggage

[barbara100 at jps.net]

on 8/1/03 12:24 AM, jbor at jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> So, your argument now is that the orcs are a "race" of humans, members of
> the human race, is it? Sorry, that simply doesn't gel with the text or
film
> at all, as the quotes illustrate.
>
> The orcs, just like the dwarves, elves, trolls etc, are *not human*.
>
> best


i think you're being much too literal. you're talking as if there really are
elves and trolls that you could absolutely argue were *not human*.

it doesn't gel with the text and film you say. it doesn't gel with reality
either. those different species must be representative of something.  apes?
monkeys? lions?  that doesn't gel.