DomWolf
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- Jul 2, 2020
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Huh. Must of missed that... to be honest I kinda speed run the old stuff these days to get to the new so that's something ether skimmed & forgot or I just haven't read in in a a while. If so I would like to apologise. I'll have to go through the beginning again to check.No Everi introduces him as the God of War and death.. not sure but maybe also of plague and famine... he is pretty much an accumilation of natural disasters or what humanity considers bad.
Quetesh is the Goddes of Love, fertility (both in regards to the land and the female) and pleasure.
Tolkin had gone on record saying he regrets how he wrote the Orcs. As a Christian he found himself uncomfortable that he created an "evil" race of mortal beings. He even considered writing a story from a "good" orcs perception, that is until death put that off permanently (RIP). But if the Orcs are shamanistic like the goblins they could still worship Nergal because the goblins are specially called "servants of Nergal" & the Great Goblin War was all thanks to Nergal saying to his goblin followers "go destroy Qetesh's servants". Orcs & goblins are closely related after all.Again In MOST fantasy lores, Orcs have shamanism which is similiar to the Goblins from PQ but more magic based as they can actually manipulate the elements instead of just being some kind of alchemist.
Tolkin wasn't giving the "Evil" races much insight as far as I can tell, but there are plenty of other universes and lores that focus around them being connected to the spirits of their ancestors and the elemental spirits of nature