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Topic	Orcs are trending on twitter Are Orcs in fantasy literature racist caricature?
Southernfatman 04/27/20 7:54:57 PM #35:	Some people are trying to find racism in anything so they can take a grand noble stand to make themselves look good. ChocoboMogALT posted... Tolkien explicitly made dwarves resemble Jews (their speech...) I think that's about a big of stretch as the orcs = black people thing. The_Creep_2020 posted... Not to mention his Arabian and African analogues all served or were allies with Sauron. They were, but the books themselves don't make those people out to be evil, but possibly tricked or coerced into fighting for Sauron. The "white" people in the Middle Earth world also were tricked by Sauron before. --- https://imgur.com/hslUvRN When I sin I sin real good. <cite>Southernfatman posted [p:938206404] in Orcs are t... [t:78632788]...</cite> <quote>Some people are trying to find racism in anything so they can take a grand noble stand to make themselves look good. ChocoboMogALT posted... </cite> <quote>Tolkien explicitly made dwarves resemble Jews (their speech...)</quote> I think that's about a big of stretch as the orcs = black people thing. The_Creep_2020 posted... </cite> <quote>Not to mention his Arabian and African analogues all served or were allies with Sauron.</quote> They were, but the books themselves don't make those people out to be evil, but possibly tricked or coerced into fighting for Sauron. The "white" people in the Middle Earth world also were tricked by Sauron before. --- https://imgur.com/hslUvRN When I sin I sin real good.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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