The Hall of Fire

Whether orcs have their measure of free will or are puppets... If they are puppets, animated by their master (as demonstrated by the quote given at the fall of Barad dur), then they have no need of redemption - both because they are not fully sentient creatures with free will of their own, and also...

Tolkien's views on what Orcs were exactly changes throughout his myth. My final opinion is that the Orcs are not sentient - they are animated by the spirit of Morgoth, and their own disloyalty and infighting is simply a result of Morgoth's own chaotic and destructive nature. I can't prove that, thou...

Great to see this bought up again – I haven’t had a serious Tolkien discussion in a long while. It’ll take me a bit of time to sort everything out, but I’ll definitely be back sooner or later.