Argibel The Orc : The Bitter Romantic

Apologies to Tolkein if this is not exactly what he might have had in mind when he created Middle Earth, but many of us have taken his ideas further in many directions. Most fantasy writers of any sort owe a great debt to his creativity. I certainly don’t wish to cheapen his creation with dark or simple humour or with sexually motivated excess, but there are so many questions about how the various races in Middle Earth could interact, or find common motivations. Can they rise above their stereotypes to work together or to live together or teach each other to understand themselves? In the real world we generally now accept that different races are all basically the same. We are all humans, but that was not always the way people thought. In Middle Earth the differences between races are far more pronounced and the hatreds, fears, and misunderstandings far more extreme.