#I can't believe peter jackson did orc blood libel

[garden-ghoul]

There is some distinction between the orc subtypes in the Pippin captured chapters. Its said the uruks of Isengards were the tallest, described as looking identical to men except for their face which is described as ugly. They had the best daylight vision. The Mordor orcs were large & strong, they had long arms with bow legs, leading to the other orcs to slur them as "apes." Moria Orcs/Goblins are said to have the best dark vision, but worst light vision, probably due to all their cave home?

identical to men????

The Pippin chapter also has one of the only hints of an orcish home life outside of the Hobbit. Ugluk, the WhiteHand commander, is trying to get the orcs to run Merry/Pippin to Isengard, one of the Moria orcs mentions the Sun is already coming out, & Ugluk makes them running, saying run or you’ll never see your “Beloved holes” again? You know if you think about it, orcs are really just people, I wonder how Hobbits & elves would be described if Ugluk wrote LOTR?

You only just now got around to “orcs are just people”… Anyway I think it’d be neat if orcs describe elves with the horror humans and hobbits SHOULD feel–like, reality warps around them. elves are a mind altering substance, and that’s terrifying! I bet orcs can directly perceive it. humans and hobbits are kind of ho hum, nothing special, but nice eating. hobbits would be the best, I’d expect; one doesn’t expect them to murder one quite as effectively.

Another interest thing is in the book, while orcs like to eat man flesh, Saruman giving it as a treat to his Uruk hai who call him Sharky(Old man), eating orc flesh is taboo, the white hand leader, Ugluk(again) gets very offended when a Mordor orc accuses him of eating orc flesh. This is altered in the Peter Jackson movie where orcs like to eat orcflesh, possibly to make them less sympathetic?

SHARKY! Y’know I’d almost expect orcs to have one of those cultures where you ritually consume the dead as a remembrance, that’d be cool

Potentially controversial opinion, while I don’t think orcs on any way innocent, I do feel its wrong for the free people to consistently treat them with so much hatred. With human or wizard enemies, they always try to give them a second chance & not sink down to their level. They spare & try to save Saruman of all people from Grima, yet his Uruk hai who he tricked get no such chance & orcs are specifically mentioned at several points as not taken prisoners by the free people who just kill them 

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