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  2. Tolkien's moral dilemma - Wikipedia

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    The Elf Ecthelion slays the Orc champion Orcobal in Gondolin. 2007 illustration by Tom Loback. J. R. R. Tolkien, a devout Roman Catholic, [T 1] created what he came to feel was a moral dilemma for himself with his supposedly evil Middle-earth peoples like Orcs, when he made them able to speak.

  3. Orc - Wikipedia

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    The orc was a sort of "hell-devil" in Old English literature, and the orc-né (pl. orc-néas, "demon-corpses") was a race of corrupted beings and descendants of Cain, alongside the elf, according to the poem Beowulf. Tolkien adopted the term orc from these old attestations, which he professed was a choice made purely for "phonetic suitability ...

  4. Tolkien's monsters - Wikipedia

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    Orcs are depicted as wholly evil, meaning that they could be slaughtered without regret. All the same, Orcs are human-like in being able to speak, and in having a similar concept of good and evil, a moral sense of fairness, even if they are not able to apply their morals to themselves. This presented Tolkien, a devout Roman Catholic, with a ...

  5. Middle-earth peoples - Wikipedia

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    Orcs are a race first bred by Morgoth, mostly living in mountain caves and disliking sunlight. Many of them live in the Misty Mountains, while others live in Mordor. They are also known as goblins. The Orcs are not created, since "evil cannot create, only corrupt" in Tolkien's philosophical perspective.

  6. Tolkien and race - Wikipedia

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    In real (exterior) life men are on both sides: which means a motley alliance of orcs, beasts, demons, plain naturally honest men, and angels. [ T 7 ] The literary critic Jenny Turner, writing in the London Review of Books , endorses O'Hehir's comment that orcs are "by design and intention a northern European's paranoid caricature of the races ...

  7. Meet the real people living in famous houses from movies and ...

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    A recent documentary reveals what it's like to live in a home famous from a movie or TV show. Owners of the properties in "Home Alone" and "Halloween" have welcomed hordes of fans paying homage.

  8. Adar (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) - Wikipedia

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    The episode also introduces Orc culture in the series, with the Orcs being primarily created with practical prosthetics. The design of the Orcs' Warg in the episode was based on chihuahuas. "Adar" premiered on the streaming service Amazon Prime Video on September 9, 2022. It was estimated to have high viewership and received generally positive ...

  9. Isengard - Wikipedia

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    In J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy writings, Isengard (/ ˈ aɪ z ən ɡ ɑːr d /) is a large fortress in Nan Curunír, the Wizard's Vale, in the western part of Middle-earth.In the fantasy world, the name of the fortress is described as a translation of Angrenost, a word in Tolkien's elvish language, Sindarin, a compound of two Old English words: īsen and ġeard, meaning "enclosure of iron".