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Re:There and Snack Again: How to Eat Everything in the Lord ... by tantalor on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @10:48AM (#19096030)
From the article:

For my money, this is one of the best moments in the trilogy, if only for the haunting implication that orcs understand the concept of a menu. There will come a blog post where I consider the idea that orcs have a cultural memory of a more civilised existence. Where I wonder if maybe they are good people who have been woefully misrepresented in a history told by its victors. But it is not this blog post.

Re:There and Snack Again: How to Eat Everything in the Lord ... by jeffbr13 on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @11:07AM (#19096264)
Check out “The Last Ringbearer”[1] for an alternate take on the LotR mythology where the orcs aren’t monsters but instead citizens of the renaissance state of Mordor.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer

Re:There and Snack Again: How to Eat Everything in the Lord ... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @03:43PM (#19099681)
So this is the LoTR analogue to "the Empire were teh good guys" ["teh" was a typo, but it fits, so heh].
Re:There and Snack Again: How to Eat Everything in the Lord ... by widforss on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @11:22AM (#19096444)
This made my day. Thank you for the link!
Re:There and Snack Again: How to Eat Everything in the Lord ... by KineticLensman on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @11:01AM (#19096176)
> Where I wonder if maybe they are good people who have been woefully misrepresented in a history told by its victors

That would be 'The Last Ringbearer' [0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer

Re:There and Snack Again: How to Eat Everything in the Lord ... by asbromberg on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @11:04AM (#19096226)
Also half-seriously considered in this mcsweeney's satire: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/unused-audio-commentary-...