Thoughts on Tolkien’s Orcs

I don't think the Orcs are Asians or Africans. I think they're raping Huns. So Germans. Middle Earth is an emblem about World War I and emblemizes the implementation of Industrialization on the West. I don't think Tolkien was thinking about the Japanese or Chinese or any of them, except in the instance of the atrocious war crimes they committed. Which, an enemy capable of doing that, that's in Hebrew Literature, that they are worthless. That's in the Bible, but only because those cultures are irredeemable.

I mean, sure in the Fall of Arthur, Arthur is campaigning in the East, but that leads to Mordred taking control of the country, and then ends up defeating Arthur at Camlann. So, the exact opposite, Tolkien was very aware of the danger of having a major campaign against the East.

No, Tolkien hated allegory. They just represent what Tolkien saw on the battlefield, which would be the Huns in World War I. Just evil in its purest sense. And also the corrosive and corruptive power of industrialization and authoritarianism.

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