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imsobadatnicknames2

I saw this mentioned as a bit of an aside on another post but since it was a little bit besides the point of that post decided to make my own post about it instead of derailing that one.

It IS very interesting how in Lord of The Rings orcs are the soldiers of a (compared to the rest of the world) highly industrialized and technologically advanced military force, yet pretty much every high fantasy media that has borrowed the concept of orcs since then has instead given them the "tribal savages" treatment, and i don't know how I failed to realize that difference until I saw someone else bring it up.

Like of course this is not saying that the depiction of orcs in LoTR is not problematic for a lot of different reasons (there have been years of discussions unpacking that) but it IS an interesting change and I think a pretty ideologically loaded one.

Thinking about it makes me remember this article I read a few years ago about how, regardless of genre trappings, a lot of high fantasy (especially in ttrpgs and videogames) actually has a lot more in common narratively and thematically with wild west ""cowboys vs indians"" films and shows than it has with its aesthetic inspirations. Like once you look at it with that lense in mind it becomes really conspicuous how much these works like giving the "tribal savages" treatment to any sapient creature that exists for the heroes to fight.

#imsobadatnicknames2#Tolkien#Fantasy#Orcs#Armies#Tyranny#~Savages~#Yeah#It's spcl notable in DnD as Orcs are BROUGHT to Faerun as an army of conquest by a Netherese Wizard#Yes Blizzard ripped off DnD as well as GamesWorkshop#like: why would they go from THAT to a bunch of chaotic ~primitives~???#but As Colonials the makers of DnD of course saw something Noble and Good in Strict Regimented Violence#so they shifted Tolkien's Orcs from a CRITIQUE of dehumanizing effect of modern industrial conscript armies#to a violence justifying caricature of the colonized#but anyway#minitagrants#appreciative reblogs
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pussyronin

Everyone shits on elf metal. Just because dwarf metal (GRANITE FORGE, UNDERBEARD) and orc metal (URROSH GROGAG, TUSK) are widely renowned and pioneers of the genre and style as a whole doesnt mean we all need to collectively bash LAST KING ELIANDOR'S DIRGE FOR THE FALLEN LEAVES PARTS IX-XXII

#pussyronin#Fantasy#Heavy Metal#Metal Bands#Elves#Dwarves#Orcs#Last King Eliandor's Dirge for the Fallen Leaves Parts IX XXII#Humor#Posting#frivolous reblogs
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dunmeshistash

Dungeon Meshi - Orcs

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roach-works

oh i really love that skeletal breakdown-- orcs are built that broad to start with, and they have HUGE strong femurs, too. i'm also delighted by the detail of their feet! like a pig's four-toed trotter, they seem to have two main toes with big nails, and two vestigial back toes that are almost but not totally incorporated into a plantigrade foot's heel.

A+ monster design.

#Kui Ryoko#Dungeon Meshi#Character Design#Monster Design#Anatomy#Orcs#Dwarves#Gr8 Art#appreciative reblogs#The Dolorous Mangas#DM Analysis#Damn#with hips and femurs like that it'd bscl be impossible to push over a dwarf or orc#and the flip side: dwarves and spcl orcs would have MASSIVE pushing tackling hauling capacity. SUPREME Wrestlers.#GIGANTIC thigh and ass muscles#and obvsl they'd have the capacity to fuck SUPER hard if you're into that#u_u u_u u_u#minitagrambles
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red-pencil

Here's my contribution to the Spread the Love challenge animation collab. Had a lot of fun with this one. I'll be sharing a process video of this soon.

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bunjywunjy

the motions and expressions here feel like golden-age Don Bluth, and I mean that in the best possible way

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gallusrostromegalus

This is still one of my favorite pieces of animation of all time.

#red pencil#Spread the Love Challenge#Animation#Orcs#Cats#Don Bluth#Gr8 Art#appreciative reblogs
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milk5

You have been brought before the ORC BOYAR.

The ORC BOYAR seeks entertainment; perhaps this will be your chance to impress the ORC BOYAR?

Perform a dance for the ORC BOYAR by selecting two DESCRIPTORS of the ORC BOYAR's liking.

You perform a BONE MUSHROOM dance.

The ORC BOYAR was not impressed.

You perform a CHEESE SPIKE dance.

The ORC BOYAR was not impressed.

You perform a FAST BROTH dance.

The ORC BOYAR was not impressed.

You perform a HOT CRUMB dance.

The ORC BOYAR was not impressed.

You perform the DESSERT STONE

The ORC BOYAR was not impressed.

You perform a LAKE MUD dance.

You feel TIRED.

The ORC BOYAR was not impressed.

You perform a ROYAL PIG dance.

The ORC BOYAR was not impressed.

You perform a CAVE TROUT dance.

The ORC BOYAR was not impressed.

You perform a ANVIL BREAD dance.

Your POINTED JINGLE SHOES begins to show wear from use! Bring the item the TOWN SMITH to repair it.

The ORC BOYAR was not impressed.

You perform a DOG MOSS dance.

The ORC BOYAR seemed slightly interested.

You perform form a DOG DOG dance.

The ORC BOYAR was not impressed.

You perform a MOSS MOSS dance.

The ORC BOYAR was not impressed.

You perform a MOSS DOG dance.

The ORC BOYAR was not impressed.

You perform a DOG MOSS dance.

The ORC BOYAR was sent into a rage.

ORC BOYAR: I have already seen DOG MOSS dance. Away with you!

A FERAL HOG appears to your LEFT.

A FERAL HOG appears to your RIGHT.

A FERAL HOG appears to your FRONT.

The FERAL HOG attacks you!

The FERAL HOG attacks you!

The FERAL HOG attacks you!

You have DIED. The world has been thrown into chaos.

Tip: The ORC BOYAR was once heard to have inscribed his favorite dance on a HIDDEN STONE in the DARK DWELLING.

#milk5#Adventure Games#Dwarf Fortress#Writing#Comedy#Fantasy#ORC BOYAR#Orcs#Gr8 Art#appreciative reblogs
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txttletale
Anonymous asked:

Regarding the DnD Orc posts:

What would be a less problematic way of describing a fantasy “race”/“species” that is meant to be “evil” and “vile”, (because maybe they were created by a evil deity to cause havoc etc).

#honestQuestion

txttletale answered:

you're positing an inherently paradoxical project mate. "how do i construct a fictional Type of Person who is ontologically evil, whose murder is prima facie acceptable or even laudable, while unimpacted by the titanic weight of historical discourses that did the exact same rhetorical work in service of real-world violences?" -- the answer is that you've invented an impossible task!

there is no fantasy of uncomplicated and meritorious ethnic violence that is neatly separable from the historical context those fantasies are produced in. that's just the way it is. genuinely, i feel compelled to ask--not because i want to hear the answer, but because i want you and others to think about this--why is this a fantasy you’re so desperate to salvage?

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olreid
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re: that posed last question -- why this fantasy? -- i recently read this short essay that uses necropolitical theory to analyze the function of orcs and similar 'evil races' in games and thought it was useful.

A recurring anguish in certain circles of fantasy roleplaying involves the never-ending search for ethical, commendable, heroic murder. This often externalized as an issue of the murdered party, the one fantasized murderer ever the silent passive subject; a quest for an intrinsic quality of the murder victim that makes it A Good. This is phrased and re-phrased in variants of the same question: What would be an acceptable target for my character to kill in a dungeon?
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ghelgheli

for a peek into the etiology of ontological essentialism as it pervades TTRPGs I have to recommend Charles W. Mills’ The Wretched of Middle Earth: An Orkish Manifesto as an analysis of how Tolkien was able to establish orcs as ontologically null for the express purpose of being killed en masse. you can, of course, trace a direct path from the mythos Tolkien set up and the widespread practice of constructing entire populations as essentially evil for the sake of gameplay:

For the genocide of the orcs is, of course, part of the climactic victory over Sauron and Mordor. Yet if it were to be suggested to the average reader of the book that it ends with a great crime, the claim would probably meet with complete bewilderment. The killing of the orcs generates no moral concern (either for the Allies or the vast majority of readers and critics) because, of course, the orcs have been successfully depersonized by Tolkien, rendered as ontological zeros. The pen here prepares the way for the sword. Indeed, a case could be made that LTR should be required reading for courses in the literature of genocide, for precisely because of the celebrated “reality” of Middle-Earth, it becomes possible to watch, in synoptic overview, the construction of an epistemology that makes mass murder possible.
How has this been done? To begin with, there is the denial of history and geographical rootedness to the orcs—almost, one could say, the denial of time and space. The density of detail and cross-referencing which give Middle-Earth its solidity and reality are deliberately withheld from the orcs in keeping with their ontological shallowness. Certainly, there are no genealogical tables, no accounts of culture and history, no etymological speculations about their languages, no maps of their territory. The orcs are defined simply by negation, as the antipode to white culture and civilization.

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The average reader does not perceive these inconsistencies, does not feel in any way disturbed by the systematic slaughter of the orcs, because, as I have suggested, Tolkien is in many ways simply retelling an old tale. The racially-differentiated structure of LTR’s moral and juridical codes simply reproduces actual historical earthly norms, going back at least to the Crusades, where “the same behavior, considered objectively, was ‘persecution’ when it was perpetrated against, and not when it was perpetrated by, the Christians.” Similarly, the fantastic kill-ratios and body-counts of LTR—the party in Moria killing thirteen orcs at the cost of a scratch to Sam (FR, 422), Boromir single-handedly dispatching twenty orcs before succumbing (TT, 18), Gimli’s grisly orc-killing contest with Legolas, which he eventually wins 42 to 41 (TT, 188)—are made both normatively acceptable and fictionally plausible by the racially-coded non-personhood of the orcs.
#txttletale#olreid#Charles W. Mills#Power Fantasies#Violence#Orcs#Tolkien#The Other#Colonialism#Imperialism#Politics#appreciative reblogs
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zohbugg

As many of you know, I recently purchased an Uruk-Hai scimitar.

Well let me tell you, it was quite the pragmatic purchase. It has endless uses in my morning routine.

Such as making the bed:

Making toast:

Getting things off high shelves:

Making coffee:

Reaching the remote when it’s too far away:

And assisting me when I ran out of toilet paper:

I don't know how I survived life without it.

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zohbugg

Happy 10 year anniversary to this dumbass post.

the years start comin’ and they sure don’t stop comin’

I have since moved out of my moms house, stopped destroying my hair with drugstore bleach, went back to school, got a job in tv, went through a pandemic, got married, quit that job, moved across the country, and gone back to school again to make video games.

The scimitar is proudly mounted on the stairs surrounded by LotR posters. It is still my most pragmatic purchase, aside from my bread machine. This bitch loves some fresh baked bread.

Anyways stay cool and stay kind everybody. <3

#zohbugg#Uruk Hai Scimitar#Swords#Orcs#Pragmatic Purchases#Time Aspect#appreciative reblogs
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