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Oh MAN one if the things that always irked me when reading the books and watching the movies were the ORCS. WHY. DIDN'T. ANYBODY. TALK. ABOUT. THE. ORCS.
All the other races in Middle Earth were portrayed with so much realism it was so great.

Elves were considered the fairest and smartest and they were by far the most skilled in combat, so of course they grew into a superiority complex and were written as these racist superior ******** who knew anything and everything and had two beautiful kingdoms like Imlildras and Lothlorien.

When dwarves where made, they were considered mistakes and had to be hidden away until the coming of for the firstborn and the second born, and so they were always considered a species that was a mistake, a failure to replicate the work of Illuvatar and so they squirreled themselves away in mountains kept their culture as secret.

Hobbits and men, their cultures show the some kind of forethought and planning but orcs?

Yea, ******** 'em. They're just angry and gross lol
Nevermind that that Sauron had given the task of making Barad-dur to orcs who constructed a tower that was somewhere around four-thousand feet tall, as well as all the outlying gates and fortresses like Morannon. The understanding of architecture that would have been needed was-
haha no, it was magic. Orcs are just angry and gross lmao

Or the fact that those, ladders they used at helm's deep, and the catapults and troll-saddles and rolling towers and giant WOLF-SHAPED METAL RAMS that they used at Minas Tirith were new inventions never seen or even conceived in thought by any other race because the likes of elves and hobbits were too concerned with their tra-la-la-lallying and trees and farms to think of maybe using their unburdened-by-starvation-and-the-constand-emminence-of-war minds to maybe, come up with something useful?

Or the fact that Sarumon's Orcs in Isengard had come up with a way to MASS-PRODUCE armor and weaponry for hundreds of thousands of orcs, which is at a level unforeseen by any written race in Arda, EVEN DWARVES who were supposed to be masters of the forges. Yea, elves and dwarves focus more on craftsmanship, but their stocks of weapons came from hundreds of years of hoarding old swords and axes while ORCS HAD BEEN ABLE TO MATCH THAT AMOUNT OF WEAPONS AND DOUBLE IN IN A FRACTION OF THE TIME

Im irked by this! Just within the frame of the Lord of the Rings books, Orcs have been shown to pull off these amazing feats that no other race in that world had done, but they are constantly CONSTANTLY shown as being
A) so weak in battle that you could twist a n****e and they'd loose an arm
B) so stupid that if you kicked one, they'd all fight until half the army was dead or
C) so savage that they EAT eachother

NONE. OF. THESE. THINGS. ADD. UP. The writing hints towards a society that has begun the first industrial revolution this world has seen, but constantly characterizes them as these witless savages that ******** their mothers and s**t in their own soup. IN FACT, ORC SOCIETY AND CULTURE IS SO VAGUE THAT WE DON'T EVEN KNOW IF ORCS AND GOBLINS ARE A DIFFERENT SPECIES.

You know, the whole thing in the Lord of the Rings where the fourth age marks the beginning of the age of men because they're the preferred race of Illuvatar gifted with death and short life so that they might change the world is such utter bullshit
We don't know what an orc's lifespan is or even if they're immortal or not, but it dosent even matter. Illuvatar made men in such a way that their separateness from nature and short lives would make them the race of change and revolution but they didnt do s**t about ANYTHING until the fellowship came along. They just kind of kept nudging Mordor back, they never tried to stop it. They didn't try to change anything.
ORCS MEET THE MAIN CRITERIA THAT ILLUVATAR SET FOR THE PREFERRED RACE AND ACCOMPLISHED WAY MORE THAN MEN EVER DID but nah they're just dumb lol
f** orcs dey gross

I always hoped that the Tolkien fandom would fill in the gaps left by the author but there's so little source material that few are up to the challenge.

Also, a lot of fans are just there for the pretty elves.

Bluh!

give thanks for Shadow of Mordor and its upcoming sequel Shadow of War! Only one elf in the entire game and he's already DEAD and he's an a*****e!

BLESS!

Well Orcs were made from Elves by Melkor (the original Dark Lord before Sauron) using dark magic (vague) so we know that much at least. And we know that the Uruk-hai and Oolog-hai are basically super soldier clones made using magical gene splicing. but where the goblins, who are also under the umbrella term of Orc, or the trolls come from is a mystery.
maybe goblins are just orcs who evolved to be smaller and more subterranean but then what about trolls? just really BIG orcs? or an entirely different species?

so many questions!