Comments by "" (@TheArklyte) on "Trope Talk: Grimdark" video.

  1.  @jackwhite8204  that's the part Tolkien prefered not to touch upon. For example his orcs are based on combination of legend, but also real slavs, vikings and mongols. He had said that they are evil by nature and can't be redeemed. Mind you, when he said it, british jingoism was all the rage and "commies" were dehumanized as easy target all eover wstern Europe. Time passes, certain events happen, true horror of Holocaust gets exposed alongside at least a quarter of what was done to slavs, romanies, chinese, koreans and many others. And suddenly out of nowhere good old professor changes his opinion to saying that orcs aren't evil, they're "just following orders"(does that sound familiar?) and real culprits are only Morgoth and Sauron. But I really like this part of his worldview truly shifting or at least pretending to follow the new trends.
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