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- From: schere@aix.rpi.edu (Mithrandir)
- Subject: Re: Orcs in the Last Alliance
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:00:27 GMT
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- In article <1h5431INNai6@bigboote.WPI.EDU> mvoorhis@granite.WPI.EDU (Michael C Voorhis) writes:
- >In article <1h4i59INN8fa@mirror.digex.com> dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz) writes:
- >> [..passage from `Silmarillion' deleted..]
- >>Does this mean that there were orcs and trolls fighting for Gil-Galad
- >>and Elendil in the last alliance? Ents fighting on both sides? Or
- >>am I reading too much into this passage?
- >
- >Wow! neat question! I don't think you're reading too much into it, it
- >just never occurred to me that Orcs or ents might fight for a side other
- >than their `own'...
-
- Maybe the orcs and trolls switched sides during the battle when they saw
- they were screwed. I can see the Haradrim and Orcs fighting side by
- side... Trolls leading the Oliphaunts...
- That would show how divided everything was...Men traitors, Orcs traitors..
-
- >
- >Cool question, but I doubt you'll find data to support an answer
- >anywhere, I don't think there's a whole lot of supporting data for the
- >battle on Dagorlad. At least I don't recall any specific stuff...
- >
- > Mike.
-
- Namarie,
- Mithrandir
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- Many are my names in many countries. Mithrandir among the Elves, Tharkun to
- the Dwarves; Olorin I was in my youth in the West that is forgotten, in the
- South Incanus, in the North Gandalf; to the East I go not.
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