[Laurinquë]

I certainly do not think you are being way too soft-hearted Child of the 7th Age, I in fact have a softer heart. All the while I have read LOTR I never really understood why things like wargs and orcs had to be intrinsically evil, I mean sure, they did terrible things to people, but don't you think that they thought that people did terrible things to them? People went out there and slaughtered them, they can't have liked that. If I met an orc on the road one night I wouldn't kill it, no matter what it tried to do to me, it has a life just like mine, how am I better then it? Because some important people think I do the right thing verses what the orc does? There is no set rules of right and wrong, the orc was doing what it thought it should do, maybe someone had made it do on threat of death or something. It's for this reason that I am not totally in awe of Legolas or Gimli for killing X number of orcs, it's bad enough you killed them, but did you have to glorify it so much? You could just do it for the sake of protecting your friends and family, that's not something to scoff at.

Ah well, it seems I have gone off on rampage here, I get really touchy on this sort of thing, I follow the Buddha's teachings on the value of another's life.


I might add that in the LOTR rip off Eragon the big, bad, orc things called Urgals are not really the bad creatures they seem to be at first, as is reviled in the second book Eldest.



*Much later edit* I hope I did not kill this thread....I got kinda enthusiastic there, heh heh..