All trolling internet BS aside -- go find a copy of The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad. This mindbending book is a sort of standard issue "mighty hero with a magic weapon defeats the hordes of evil monsters" -- except it's as written by an alternate universe Adolf Hitler. You will never look at this genre the same again.
even better to find an English copy of "The Last Ringbearer" showing Mordor as a nation on verge of industrial revolution and Elves as racists towards Orcs !!
There's nothing wrong with making comparisons between fiction and non-fiction. Though in Tolkien's case I imagine if orcs were based on anything from reality (and I don't know if they were - @silvermyth knows far more about Tolkien than I do), it would have been enemies from the war. Which were by and large white people.
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The problem begins when people start making forced comparisons, and then finding reasons to get offended about those comparisons, and then inflictings them on others.
Dwarves are often portrayed as loud, ugly, short, a bit stupid, selfish, gassy, uncouth, loutish drunkards with red hair and Scottish accents. Arguably far easier to make the assertion that they're somehow racist than it is to claim orcs are (and for the record I don't think dwarves are racist), and yet the Scots don't seem particularly perturbed about it.
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The fact that the people making these idiotic claims always at some point add in the stipulation: "if you disagree with me you will be labelled unworthy, insulted, and silenced" really speaks for itself, though
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I play an orc. She's a legit viking, an all-round happy-go-lucky raider, likes to dance, and has a major crush on this little kobold she saw on a raid once. An orc is what you make of them, not their past/historical connotations.
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The problem begins when people start making forced comparisons, and then finding reasons to get offended about those comparisons, and then inflictings them on others.
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The fact that the people making these idiotic claims always at some point add in the stipulation: "if you disagree with me you will be labelled unworthy, insulted, and silenced" really speaks for itself, though