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- From: lewchuk@cs.UAlberta.CA (Michael Lewchuk)
- Subject: Re: Orcs in the Last Alliance
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:08:15 GMT
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- dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz) writes:
- > All living things were divided in that day, and some of every
- > kind, even of beasts and birds, were found in either host, save
- > the Elves only.
- >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?
-
- Based on Fangorn's statement about evil forests I would think that there
- were evil ents at one time or another. Although I don't know about orcs.
- It is hard to imagine orcs fighting for the West, although I guess it
- could be so that an orc was treacherous enough to fight against Sauron.
-
- Michael Lewchuk
- lewchuk@cs.UAlberta.CA
-