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Then wrath mastered Morgoth, and he said: 'Yet I may come at you, and all your accursed house; and you shall be broken on my will, though you all were made of steel.' And he took up a long sword that lay there and broke it before the eyes of Húrin, and a splinter wounded his face

Melkor be like:

Lol he blocked me for speaking the truth

Not true. You got on someone else's thread, got pissy, cried, and ran away.

@SoloWaggin @CerberusXt Wow so not even nothing, but less than nothing. God damn. That's impressive.

@MorgothArc @CerberusXt intuition from playing 1000s of games.

The woke concent detector list is crazy. Imagine missing on so many good games because anti-woke grifters melted your brain.

@SoloWaggin @CerberusXt Oh hey I was right. So how do you know, "these games all do suck"

@MorgothArc @CerberusXt I have played all of them but the shovel knights.

@SoloWaggin @CerberusXt There's 0 chance you've played all those games.

@CerberusXt these games all do suck.

Just so we are clear: Tolkien did believe in evil. What he didn't believe in was pure evil.

@MrHumpty_ @LaoziNabu @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower Tolkien believed in evil, sure. He didn't believe in pure evil.

@MorgothArc @LaoziNabu @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower Just so we're clear. Tolkien did believe in evil. He didn't believe things started Evil. But he most certainly believed in evil/corruption. He left it as a possibility of orcs becoming uncorrupted in an offhand sort of way. If pressed, the probability approached zero.

For the Orcs had life and multiplied.

@LaoziNabu @MrHumpty_ @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower The belief in being correct? And that ignoring the core belief of the author is pure dipshittery?

@MorgothArc @MrHumpty_ @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower It just makes sense why you two seem so lockstep in your beliefs. I thought it was 2 different people with their own organic thoughts I was speaking with not a married team.

@LaoziNabu @MrHumpty_ @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower And here we go pivoting topics.

@MorgothArc @MrHumpty_ @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower You’re married aren’t you? To Gandalf the Gay?

@LaoziNabu @MrHumpty_ @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower No, I'm accurate. It's disingenuous to ignore a central theme of the Legendarium and a core belief of the author that informs the morality of Eä

@MorgothArc @MrHumpty_ @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower You’re disingenuous then.

@LaoziNabu @MrHumpty_ @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower I will not discount that since doing so would be an insult to Tolkien and his entire belief system.

@MorgothArc @MrHumpty_ @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower Discounting there’s no 100% pure evil. Would you say there are obviously good and evil represented in his works?

@LaoziNabu @MrHumpty_ @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower How? Because I know that Tolkien didn't believe in pure evil?

@MorgothArc @MrHumpty_ @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower I’d say reading the subtext of your replies here that you do.

@LaoziNabu @MrHumpty_ @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower So again I ask my question: who the hell said anything about sympathizing with orcs?

@MorgothArc @MrHumpty_ @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower Jeez all you people know how to do is gaslight, even with I concede a small bit of ground and attempt to argue in good faith. This all started because of the depiction of a war weary orc embracing his family in a bad adaptation, unless you are saying that didn’t happen?

@LaoziNabu @MrHumpty_ @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower Who said anything about sympathizing with Sauron or orcs?

@MorgothArc @MrHumpty_ @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower I’m not disagreeing with you. I’m saying it’s more complex and nuanced than pure good vs evil. That would be grossly oversimplifying the professors works. I’m also pointing out that there are moral “good” characters that you can sympathize for that aren’t orcs and Sauron.

youtu.be/9r6bkAM-39U?si… Yo that's crazy. Anyway here is Tolkien saying he doesn't believe in absolute evil.

@LaoziNabu @MrHumpty_ @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower You do realize you're agreeing with me, right?

@MorgothArc @MrHumpty_ @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower He wouldn’t even say Sauron was irredeemably bad though, because he started his story off with a fall from good(Morgoth) obviously an allegory of Lucifer. Still you can draw clear moral lines, and to liken Sauron and Orcs with Elves and men is grossly oversimplifying his work.

@LaoziNabu @MrHumpty_ @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower He specifically said orcs are NOT irredeemably bad.

@MorgothArc @MrHumpty_ @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower He used irredeemably bad not “pure evil”. It he also said they didn’t have much choice because Melkor/Morgoth perverted elves to because Orcs because he couldn’t create. That being said he did say they were capable of good, but even so after Sauron elessar still had to kill them.

@VrilledupBane @MrHumpty_ @LaoziNabu @ToIkienverse @PlatinumEquinox @TheRingsofPower He did? That's fuckin crazy. I mean, not according to the man himself. youtu.be/9r6bkAM-39U?si…

@Castimirr @EnbyApple I think it's from 2022 because fuck the police.

@EnbyApple @MorgothArc I’m not even sure it’s from last Christmas

If I knew people were gonna complain about orcs this much I wouldn't have done it.