Interesting points.
Posted by Fingdegil
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I would shorten the episode with the orks and change them to spies and maybe work some of it into the later acount of his talk to Morgoth.
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Why can't orcs be spies? I think that if you were under torture, there would be things that you will say in order to save yourself. I don't see it wrong that Maeglin had to say them something for they to believe that he was who he said he is. And also, by not stating explicitly that they were spies, we leave open the possibility that they could have been. (I'm begining to sound like Aiwendil here)
Moreover, I don't think that it is a necessity for the Orcs to be spies, it is a posiblity that they were, but not a certainity.
[ September 02, 2003: Message edited by: Maédhros ]