I think this issue is somewhat within my lane since the original Tolkien Orcs were specifically a racist caricature of Asians And my thing is like, what's done is done and it's too late to "cancel Orcs" completely from our pop culture, but I'm allowed to make be snarky about ithttps://twitter.com/HoldenShearer/status/1254414174484140034 …
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But he got MAD about that He straight up SAID "No, that's not what I imagined, the Orcs in my head specifically look like a caricature of Asian humans"
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Somehow, no matter what the explanation was -- the Silmarillion saying they were mutant Elves, the other stories saying Morgoth grew them from slime or engineered them from animals Dr. Moreau style, the "they're all very minor Maiar demons" theory -- they had to look Asian
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