LotR - Mordor The Black Speech of Bureaucracy
A Load of Old Toby - Musing on Miniatures, Middle-earth, and the Machinery of Mordor The Black Speech of Bureaucracy: Reconstructing the True Scales of the Orc Host There is a persistent habit in modern fantasy wargaming to treat the Orc as a purely chaotic creature, a wild marauder who stumbles into battle with little more than a rusty cleaver and a bad attitude. But if we actually look closer at the texts left to us by 'the Professor', a far more chilling reality emerges. Under the shadow of the Dark Tower, the Orc host was not a rabid mob but it was, or is indeed is for those of us who believe the time of the Orc is still to come, an industrial machine. It was uniform. It was counted, registered, and divided by a hierarchy that was as rigid as it was cruel. Orc 'Boss' - Copplestone Miniatures Indeed it would have been almost impossible to keep order within the chaos without some form of loose structure. So I have been working on discarding the clean, modern terminolo...