Think about it people...remember the Orcish creatures, how they hated all non-orcs? Notice that?
Didnt the Orcish culture look like an Islamic one? Thats no coincidence.
Isnt the same errie and nefarious feeling you got when you saw the hate creatures not the very same feeling you get when you wake up every day and read about a new Islamic war or act of terror?
2006-09-19 11:10:48 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Middle earth was designed around europe. the orcs actually represented the nazis ...
2006-09-19 11:21:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Yes.
The War of the Ring has more in common with the Crusades than WWII.
There is a great racial difference between the orcs and the other races of Middle Earth, whereas there is no racial difference between the Nazis and the Western Allies.
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is actually based on medieval Europe, and the orcs are more representative of Muslims/Turks.
2013-12-03 19:56:30 · answer #2 · answered by SUKU 1 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I do think J.R.Tolkien had some sort of a prophetic insight on the biblical end-times stories. There is a strange similarity between the black flag of the orcs and the black islamic flag of ISIS today. The Dark Lord Sauron could be the spiritual evil called Devil or Satan, the free men of the MIddle Earth are western Europe and USA, or the civilisation based on jewish and christian values, and on the other side the muslim people and their armies of the Middle East, joined together by the muslim Antichrist(King Abdullah of Jordan?), who is intended to destroy Israel and the West.
Saruman could be the False prophet( the Pope of Rome?), Frodo Baggins some sort of Jesus Christ in his Second Coming, while Aragorn would be the Jewish Messiah( Moshiah Ben David), who comes to fight against the Armies of Islam and win the last war on the valley of Jehoshafat (Minas Tirith or Jerusalem). Gandalf could be the prophet Elijah, who helps both Frodo and Aragorn in their quest to defeat the evil forces of Islam.
2014-06-29 23:12:25 · answer #3 · answered by Eliyahu 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tolkien HATED allegory!!!!! The orcs did not represent anything, nor did the Hobbits, elves, or dwarves. The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit are FICTIONAL STORIES!!!!! It is not representative of WWII, the ring doesn't represent nuclear power. Tolkien wrote the story in the 20th century. The orcs do not represent Muslims or Islam.
2006-09-19 11:31:57 · answer #4 · answered by tn_lovett 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No! The orcs represented industrialization, modernization and the Nazis (a great war machine manned by unthinking but supremely loyal soldiers who were bred, trained and equipped utterly ruthlessly for a ruthlessly ambitious purpose).
J. R. R. Tolkien was against facism and modernization, not Islam.
Peace,
Xan Shui
Philosophic Philanthropist, Honest Man
2006-09-19 11:32:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I can see why you see a resemblance. But I think Orcs were not meant to be any specific group. I think they just represented ANY group of people who hate all outsiders.
2006-09-19 11:14:42 · answer #6 · answered by Developing Love 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The "movement of Islam"?
Orcs are orcs. Tolkein wrote those books from his childhood.
He didn't make them political.
2006-09-19 11:17:30 · answer #7 · answered by Tofu Jesus 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
actually it was written during world war two, the orcs represented the Nazis
2006-09-19 11:23:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no you moron!orcs were a fictional character that J.R.R Tolkien came up with
2006-09-19 11:16:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No,It's a little to far of a stretch.He wrote it during WW2.
2006-09-19 11:24:43 · answer #10 · answered by eva b 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋