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		bokchoi on Oct 4, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wife-beating and slavery were once acceptable: How... And don't forget the barbaric men from the South and their backward ways.

radu_floricica on Oct 5, 2010 [–]

Which reminds me that some of the comments in the book are made through the eyes of the characters. Of course enemy foreigners would seem "orcish" to a hobbit, because for him orc means evil and enemy means evil (and for the most part he would be right).

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