With The Hobbit nearing my unblinking eyes, I find myself wondering about the endeavours of evil…and to what end.
In fantasy stories, commonly, evil is personified as a malevolent slobbering beast, whose sole intention is to eradicate the normal and good. I ask, what if they won? What do they do then?
I imagine a world such as Middle Earth, where the last free village might have been pillaged and it’s inhabitants possibly killed...evil, could, reign victorious.
No wars, no struggle or strife. The orcs would be forced to a life of peace, settle down to a nice cave with an en-suite tar-pit and find an orcette to tend to their larvae, or whatever they have.
Social problems would have to be raised to your local member of the dark council, Saruman MDC, who in-turn quizzes the now gluttonous, lazy, hedonistic Sauron being fed grapes by his plethora of abhorrent concubines.
Before you know it, an orc cave has a well groomed warg for commuting, a picket fence made of bones and a swing in a garden littered with corpses and warg shit. Does this mean, the pursuits of evil are the same as that of good? To be left alone in peace.
In the East a faction of Men, rising up and fighting to re-claim defiled land, strike hard at settlements, destroying caves and slaughtering innocent orc squibs, and being generally very naughty indeed. Which side is evil after all? Of course, the answer is obvious, but ending with a question just sounded good.
In fantasy stories, commonly, evil is personified as a malevolent slobbering beast, whose sole intention is to eradicate the normal and good. I ask, what if they won? What do they do then?
I imagine a world such as Middle Earth, where the last free village might have been pillaged and it’s inhabitants possibly killed...evil, could, reign victorious.
No wars, no struggle or strife. The orcs would be forced to a life of peace, settle down to a nice cave with an en-suite tar-pit and find an orcette to tend to their larvae, or whatever they have.
Social problems would have to be raised to your local member of the dark council, Saruman MDC, who in-turn quizzes the now gluttonous, lazy, hedonistic Sauron being fed grapes by his plethora of abhorrent concubines.
Before you know it, an orc cave has a well groomed warg for commuting, a picket fence made of bones and a swing in a garden littered with corpses and warg shit. Does this mean, the pursuits of evil are the same as that of good? To be left alone in peace.
In the East a faction of Men, rising up and fighting to re-claim defiled land, strike hard at settlements, destroying caves and slaughtering innocent orc squibs, and being generally very naughty indeed. Which side is evil after all? Of course, the answer is obvious, but ending with a question just sounded good.