Orcs Are People, Too

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Unused Audio Commentary By Howard Zinn & Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002, for The Fellowship of the Ring Platinum Series Extended Edition DVD, Part One

I heard a selection on the radio today from this imagined commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky on the Lord of the Rings. Although not everyone agrees, I found the conceit of the Orcs as oppressed farmers brutalized by the militaristic regimes of Gondor and Rohan quite funny.