And how do you get said army? You enslave them, you bend them to your will, much like Sauron himself bends his ringwraiths and other servants to his will. He tells you that you need an army of orcs to fight in Mordor, like Saruman. THey, like the uruks, are in an extreme situation and behaving in extreme ways.Įver notice how many times Celebrimbor echoes some of Tolkien's own villains? He wants to use the Enemy's own power against him, like Boromir. I don't think anyone would seriously say that Talion and Celebrimbor are 100% good guys. Not everything needs to be political and even when something is political it doesn't always have to be taken in the same direction. It's obviously more complex than the non-uruk characters are giving it credit and it's as much based in the extreme circumstances of where they live and who they work for as in any inherent nastiness coming from their breeding.īut that doesn't immediately translate to "boo hoo it's a white male power fantasy about enslaving people of color bad monolith" unless you're writing a Freshman critical theory paper or you want to write an article that'll get lots of pageviews. It's a society that can exist and has in real life.
They've got a society where you acquire the resources you need (manflesh, grog, slaves, soldiers, etc.) either by being strong enough to take and keep them or by kowtowing to someone else who is those things. I read somewhere they took a lot of cues for uruk behavior in the game from humans in extreme situations like World War 1.
That also gets into the thing a lot of people into working political critique into artforms seem to miss is that politically critiquing art isn't about finding things like this in a book and spanking it and saying it's a bad book and you shouldn't read it.
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