Re: Evil, LoTR, and Glorantha

From: contracycle <gamartin_at_...>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:10:53 -0000

> One thing I dislike about LoTR is the way that the whole race of
> orcs is presented as evil because they were made that way. Tolkein

In Tolkiens defense, he was writing in an era in which racial identification was a current issue. I am much more concerned, as you mention, by the way that D&D appears to perpuate this uncritically.

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