Orcs aren't the proletariat, but they are a lazy 'other'. A peoples without any moral good in them who are simply evil because they are born evil. Therefore it's totally fine to kill them because they're evil.
That is most hum-drum boilerplate dehumanization which you've seen every racist tout about their target of oppression. To Tolkien's credit, I don't think he actively realized what he was doing with the Orcs, and may have even started to catch on that he did an oopsie later in life. However, it didn't stop them from being used as a dogwhistle for every chud who wants an easily 'other' to happily chop to pieces in D&D.
Christ, just see the 'Goblinslayer' anime for the logical conclusion where even orc/goblin baby-murder is justified.
The orcs kind of are. Sauron/Saruman are factions of the capitalist class. Elves and Gondor are the high and low aristocracy, horrible in the past but decayed and preferable to the bourgeoisie.
Hobbits are....Dithmarschen? Peasant republic with a Kulak/Gentry ruling class?
Orcs aren't the proletariat, but they are a lazy 'other'. A peoples without any moral good in them who are simply evil because they are born evil. Therefore it's totally fine to kill them because they're evil.
That is most hum-drum boilerplate dehumanization which you've seen every racist tout about their target of oppression. To Tolkien's credit, I don't think he actively realized what he was doing with the Orcs, and may have even started to catch on that he did an oopsie later in life. However, it didn't stop them from being used as a dogwhistle for every chud who wants an easily 'other' to happily chop to pieces in D&D.
Christ, just see the 'Goblinslayer' anime for the logical conclusion where even orc/goblin baby-murder is justified.
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They were elves who were captured by Melkor/Morgoth who were then enslaved, tortured, and yeah, basically bred to be soulless killing machines.
Wikipedia already has the struggle sesh covered:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien_and_race
The orcs kind of are. Sauron/Saruman are factions of the capitalist class. Elves and Gondor are the high and low aristocracy, horrible in the past but decayed and preferable to the bourgeoisie.
Hobbits are....Dithmarschen? Peasant republic with a Kulak/Gentry ruling class?
Hobbits with a Kulak ruling class is really the best sentence I have and will ever see on chapo.chat. Everyone else go home.