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From the Vault: Orcs in the Deep

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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What if Everything in Middle Earth Is a Mushroom?

This is a more mythological way of imagining how traits are established in a species. And, and he writes that ultimately, tolkan was, of course, more concerned wilf, certainly, with linguistic aspects of everything. But then also, tolken was more concerned with theological ramifications, like what happens to the soul of the elf if it is made into an ork? You know, sthere's this whole line of thinking as wellso all this was far more on tolkin's a brain, as opposed to in evolutionary biology.

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