At 09:52 22/02/02 -0500, you wrote:
>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 was a Christian
>and I'd have hoped he would allow for the possibility of an orc overcoming
>its background. No sentient being should be beyond the possibility of
>redemption.
Tolkein does say that Orcs can be redeemed in his letters. But
since he didn't know much about how their motivations (unlike
glorantha's broos), he couldn't depict them as he had for Gollum.
--Peter Metcalfe