Tolkien as a Catholic rejected 30s "race science" stuff that was normalized in the pulps, like race war being inevitable
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Replying to @arthur_affect @benjanun_s
you see way more comfort with the "inherently inferior races" trope in Howard or Burroughs
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Tolkien spent the last part of his life trying to fix the origin story of Orcs bc "inherently evil race" bugged him so much
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toward the end he wanted to say they weren't even really alive, just sort-of-undead things
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the word "orc" originally comes from a word meaning "corpse" describing monsters in Beowulf
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