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It’s a dagger that was made by elves, Galadriel.
Please don’t use the E word, thanks. The preferred nomenclature is ‘Firstborn of Iluvatar’. DEFINITELY NOT ‘pointy ears’
These knife-eared snowflakes get whinier and whinier
Orcs aren’t people.
Well I know who’s next in line for a little chat.
Don’t elves have a visceral hatred for orcs, what with them being originally elves brutally deformed and beaten into submission by Morgoth and all that ? If anything, most elves would like you a bit more for being racist towards orcs.
Elves are super racist toward pretty much every other race.
They’re basically nostalgic brtish grandpas, of course they are.
Except ents
Treebeard bows deeply to the Lord and Lady of Lothlorian. Ents were taught to speak (trees in the old woods) by elves. So superiority exists.
Counterpoint. The first born are said to be envious of the gift the one gave the second born (men). Death. Before Melkor corrupted the truth and Sauron convinced the Numemoreans that death was evil.
Whoa man. Keep those ideas back in the first age where they belong.
Are you suggesting that just because their ancestors were tortured beyond recognition that they are no longer worthy of basic rights?
That’s definitely a hot take if I’ve ever seen one.
More or less a central pillar of the Mormon Church racism.
I absolutely agree with you. However you could make the point, and of course I am not making that point, but one could argue that there was also some genetic engineering involved, that allegedly might have led to some qualityies that some might call a teeny tiny bit murderous.
Jay we talked about this
They absolutely are people. They clearly show intelligence and sapience. They may be people with morals that are opposed to the other species and they may be at war with them, but dehumanization (depersonization?) isn’t the answer.
Their entire species was created as a magical weapon. The funny thing they’re really supposed to represent the cruelties of industrialization. Tolkien was not a fan of what England did with technology.
Sure, but that’s irrelevant. The only questions are: are they sapient? And do they have free will? If yes to both, i.e. they can choose their own way, especially once Sauron’s magical control is gone, then they are people.
Saying they aren’t people because someone created/bred them for a specific purpose kinda feels like the people who argue certain dog breeds were bred for X or Y and therefore they should be culled/banned/etc. It simplifies the living creature too far and doesn’t allow them to branch out from what they originally did. It’s essentially genocide on the orc front.
They don’t have a meaningful level of free will from what I understand. That’s part of the process of creating them. They only act within certain boundaries or else resort to raiding and eating… everything. And everyone. Occasionally each other.
You’re imposing an enlightened modern viewpoint onto a universe with explicitly different rules. In Middle-earth, there actually IS such a thing as absolute evil, unredeemable and not possessing what we would call a soul, and the orcs are plwced firmly in this class of being. Their sapience is not relevant to the morality of killing them when they are evil.
I understand that this doesn’t map onto the real world very well, but the real world also doesn’t contain immortal beings who are within a few degrees of separation from the creator Eru Ilúvatar himself, who have literally spoken with either him or his greatest servants the Valar. It’s hard to deny the rules of good and evil when you have them firsthand from the creator of the universe.
My point is simply that you have to define the frame you’re arguing within. If your frame is the real world, then you are correct and orcs should be treated the same as any other living being. But if your frame is the subcreation of J.R.R. Tolkien, you must acknowledge the stated realities of that world.
They are constructs, imitations of life, animated by the evil will of Morgoth and his foul apprentice Sauron. They’re no more people than ChatGPT is people.
Elves made the sword in the first place…
Yeah and honestly that doesn’t do much to silence the idea of racist origins funny enough.
Remember watching Fellowship as a teenager in 2001 (if you’re a millennial) and thinking that Cate Blanchett was probably in her 50s? Yeah she was 31.
I thought she was several thousand years old
Orcs aren’t people and I’m not afraid to say it.
And then she made a bunch of Jade eggs for your puss puss and sold them.
Do you think that’s Ginuwine Paltrow?
You’re confusing Cate Blanchet with Gwyneth Paltrow.
Galadriel is Cate Blanchett
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I can see why on the surface you might think it’s a conservative meme, but it’s not. It’s poking fun at how rigid and yes potentially racist fantasy settings can be.
Racism is a fantastic way of introducing conflict without having to come up with a particular reason. And stories without conflict are often really boring. Comes with the bonus points of being realistic.
Unironically, the elves aren’t racist against orcs. Orcs were elves that got corrupted.
Arent there worlds where theyre made of clay? Or other origins?
Pretty much the only consitent thing about orks are that they big, dumb, and muscle bound.
Outside of lord of the rings? Yeah, sure. Outside of existing stories orcs can be literally anything.
In my canon orcs are just the mature form of juggalos
Uruk hai were created from clay or something like that. They’re the ones you see come out of the pit in the LOTR movies.
They must be something else though. As even Melkor was not able to create, only twist and distort. I doubt his lesser could do that which he could not. I don’t think even Saruman could create life.
I dont think there is a canon to the Uruk hai origin other than they are “…cross between orcs and men…”. The depiction of them coming from the ground is just how Tolkien described “…worm their way out of the ground like maggots…”
In reality its likely slaves of Sauron and orcs making Uruk hai in a not so pleasant way
Soooo… You want the fantasy racism to be justified?
Like in what way? Ideally, every bit of world building would be justified, but thats not always realistic.
I think justifiable racism might just be unrealistic enough to be exclusive to the fantasy genre in the first place lol.
You’re just trying too hard to justify the meme, OP’s title is about cancellation, probably just copied wherever OP found the meme, and the meme itself is phrased to push the point that “woke” ruins even fantasy literature, this is a Right wing meme post.
I can assure you the title is tongue-in-cheek for humor. You’re reading way too much into it.
Lighten up man
I’m pretty far left and I chuckled at this. This is why the right makes fun of us for not being able to take a joke.
I’m pretty sure they have other, worse reasons.
I also chuckled.
Frodo isnt real my guy
There’s no such thing as being cancelled, mature people just call it “consequences for actions”.
So there is such a thing but you’d prefer people use different word for it?
