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To: HairOfTheDog; g'nad; Bear_in_RoseBear; JenB
I read something last year that the Orcs were twisted creatures that hated life -- and didn't have a strong will to live.

(pinging some Tolkien experts who may know more)

42,899 posted on 11/21/2002 7:34:01 AM PST by John Farson
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42,901 posted on 11/21/2002 7:37:11 AM PST by carton253
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To: John Farson
I read something last year that the Orcs were twisted creatures that hated life -- and didn't have a strong will to live.

That makes sense. What makes a bit more sense, perhaps is to realize that the Orcs are corruptions of life, not an original creation. Who is it who give a creature the will to live? Surely it is the same One who gives life in the first place. Twisting that gift of life to hideous ends - who knows what will become of the side issues.

So what I'm saying is that maybe it's not that Orcs hate their existance, though I am sure they do, but that Creation and all created being loathe Orcs and therefore the world is a far more inherently hostile place to an Orc than it is to a Human or an Elf. This is my Father's world; and He probably doesn't like people messing it up.

42,925 posted on 11/21/2002 8:09:41 AM PST by JenB
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