People who've only read 1984 like to imagine him as a sort of centrist liberal or even just as a straight up conservative and it's revealing of this pretty big tonal shift from Young Orwell to Old Orwell
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I don't really think that line reads as negatively you do, especially for an old-timey guy like Tolkien The word "creature" has negative connotations but it doesn't mean "subhuman animal", it just means "created being"
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C.S. Lewis famously did this glossary of terms for translating theology into how the common folk speak and he had to warn them about the word "creature", that the kids these days only ever use it to mean something repulsive or disgusting
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Sure, and they are both trained warriors. That sort of attitude is hardly uncommon among warriors. But there's a difference between the natural dehumanization of warfare and the tricks fantasy often pulls.
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