Okay but you can't say he also didn't make Orcs dumb thugs when it suited him - he even gives them a Cockney accent (which carried over to WH40K) The internal division between Orc "subspecies" is right there with Saruman's Uruk-hai bickering with their "Mordor-orc" commissar
Oh yeah let's not cover up the fact that his aesthetic distaste for the "dark Satanic mills" of industry absolutely did extend to the people in them, the idea that the modern working class had become "degenerate" due to their conditions
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Mordor literally means “Black Country”, the name for the industrial region of England in which Tolkien grew up. (And myself also)
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It seems he really didn't like it.
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