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"Orcs" were based on asiatic features, similar to the Mongol armies. The association with "orcs" is based on ethnicity, driving an image of an ugly, warlike species with no regard for life.
Strongly resisting the urge to go on a rant about how CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien would get into arguments regarding how hamfisted and Hitlerian their biblical analogies should be
Go for it, people need to know.
Maybe in a full post. I also need to explain the whole Peter Thiel thing (with relation to US postwar financial imperialism) and post more about Indian communists, I will add it to the stack
Sounds good!