Timeline for Were there ever any "good" Orcs?
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| Dec 18, 2017 at 18:51 | comment | added | La-comadreja | Maybe so. In The Return of the King, the orcs of Mordor seem too violent to live in large groups over the long term without dark magic. But The Hobbit says "It is not unlikely that they invented some of the machines...for wheels and engines and explosions always delighted them, and also not working with their own hands more than they could help; but in those days...they had not advanced (as it is called) so far." That would indeed have required orc societies to become more independently organized than the ones in The Return of the King. | |
| May 5, 2017 at 4:52 | comment | added | EvilSnack | Without a dominating evil will to drive and control them and press them to evil deeds, the orcs probably did begin to evolve towards something less corrupt. When an orc got "sick of this crap" during the rule of Sauron or Morgoth, either of these would have ordered the orc put down as an example. After the fall of Sauron, such orcs could at least go their own way and acquire some decency. | |
| Apr 28, 2014 at 18:16 | comment | added | La-comadreja | Or that they used their inherent determination to get back on track, and some turned to technology and showed up on our sister site Stack Overflow :) | |
| Jan 11, 2014 at 14:45 | comment | added | Envite | Received and understood :) Not a native english speaker | |
| Jan 7, 2014 at 3:04 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | I think the question is more about third age and before | |
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| Jan 7, 2014 at 2:45 | history | answered | Envite | CC BY-SA 3.0 |