So something I'm going to mention. D&D orcs are coded as PoC Savages because D&D was written by a very conservative racist guy deliberately trying to mimic the (very racist) clash-of-civilization-vs-barbarism dynamic of Conan. Tolkien orcs are *abberrations* in D&D terms.
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They're not really mutually exclusive, though - and it's not like the orcs are DUMB. They are thuggish, but they are the minions of a very specifically evil ORDER. Orcs act like what they are - the runaway multigenerational hordes of a Dark Lord turned warlords & brigands.
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Remember, Shagrat and Gorbag's idea of a comfortable retirement isn't like... a city or going home to their families, it's setting up somewhat as local bandit lords where nobody else can bother them. But their entire "society," such as it is, is defined by order and technology.
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In part that's because he was doing a little bit of "REAL England is small villages in the countryside" mythologising, and Orcs being a heavily industrialised people come from the big city. GW caught that and modernised the stereotype a bit.
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Eh, kiiiinda? Tolkien's attitude to industry is, imo, a little more complicated than people give credit for, because many of his forces of Good are profoundly industrialized. Gondor, the Noldor, the Dwarves. What they aren't is capitalist or the negative side of industry.
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