It occured to me that maybe I could post a link to my post about "nice trolls" here, concerning the trolls from Hobbit and the compassion one of them shows. I speak about both orcs and trolls there and I believe that it is a valid argument even for this discussion.
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"Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories
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