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Can you reconcile the goblins with the orcs as we see them later in LotR?
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I have difficulty with this. I can not for the life of me imagine Ugluk, Shagrat or Gorbag signing to each other or their captives. I can imagine them torturing them but not singing. There just seems to be a difference between the manner in which most races are portrayed. Tolkien does a good job at explaining that they are nasty creatures but they seem more like creatures we would see on the movie Gremlins than a serious evil, twisted creature.
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
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