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Lotr: If sauron loved order so much, why did he use orcs, who are barabarian and brutish?
gpt
Orcs are not all barbarians.  They are cruel, but clever and incredibly industrious.  It's implied in the Hobbit book that they have some type of machine-based industries (and torture devices) in their mountain caverns, which is very advanced compared to the feudal-agricultural lifestyle enjoyed by most men, elves and hobbits in Middle Earth.

When Orcs are given a powerful central leader who knows how to delegate command, they can be a very ordered and efficient military, economic and industrial people.  Unfortunately, devoid of a strong leader they scatter like leaves and break into smaller warbands.


The single most advanced civilization the world of Arda has seen was Numenor, they also had machines and industry that dwarfed that of the later realms Middle Earth, but they too ended up turning their tools toward evil.  Tolkien seemed to blame industrialization for the collapse and defilement of the traditional English countryside, which is a fair assessment when you consider how much pollution industry put out before being regulated in western countries.  The Shire was a prefer state of simple agriculture and local artisans, but even the Shire was not free from the ravages of the war, just as they traditional villages and countrysides of Europe were not spared the horror of the 1st World War.