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Editors' Introduction, Brigitte Fielder, Katrina Phillips
Editors' Introduction, Brigitte Fielder, Katrina Phillips
Research on Diversity in Youth Literature
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Making Or Creating Orcs: How Thorinsmut's Free Orcs Au Writes Back To Tolkien, Robin A. Reid Dr.
Making Or Creating Orcs: How Thorinsmut's Free Orcs Au Writes Back To Tolkien, Robin A. Reid Dr.
Journal of Tolkien Research
"Making or Creating Orcs" is a close reading of an Alternate University fan fiction, "The Free Orcs AU," by Thorinsmut, which is based on the premise that Erebor was not attacked by Smaug and that some Orcs have fought and freed themselves from Sauron and have established a homeland in Gundabad. Working in the context of the scholarship on racist stereotypes relating to Tolkien's Orcs, I argue that Thorinsmut is able to "write back" to colonial narratives (Baker) through the AU premise and the associated deletions and transformations of Tolkien's characterizations, plot, setting, and themes in The Hobbit and The …