One man's Orc is another man's Orocuen...

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

Er... you do know there's fan-fic out there where one of the hobbits (I forget which) has sex with Treebeard? I'm just saying...

And probably basset hounds too, for that matter.

To me, toying with the point of view of the basic story is an interesting gimmick, but nothing more. It isn't believable for me for Sauron to be "good" in any way, at least by the time of the Third Age. I wonder how he'd explain the mass decapitations of Gondorian soldiers whose heads were tossed over the walls of Minas Tirith during the war, or his imprisoning of Thráin the Dwarf in Dol Guldur, etc.

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

I wonder how he'd explain the mass decapitations of Gondorian soldiers whose heads were tossed over the walls of Minas Tirith during the war, or his imprisoning of Thráin the Dwarf in Dol Guldur, etc.

They just made it all up to make orcs seem cruel, rutheless, ugly, etc! Orcs are really gentle empathetic creatures that are just misunderstood.

As for Thrain, didn't he stay there as an honoured guest on his free will? It's not anyone's fault that he took a strong dose of halucinogen with his drink...