tolkien is a. complicated figure. in her world.

as one might expect given that orcs and trolls are very real, and also completely normal people who get born in the regular way and are no more or less inclined to evil than anyone else

who are also marginalized groups

basically tolkien went from being kinda racist mostly in terms of unexamined metaphors to extremely literally racist in very short order, and tolkien elfshit was used to, and this is an incredibly abbreviated tldr, as propoganda for the elven nationalist who are, I cannot stress this enough, absolute assholes

so like on the one hand she knows this isn't their fault
on the other their entire culture is, in her world, a dogwhistle for being a bigot

Sounds like an interesting thing to explore

kerrigan regrets to report her telepathic contact suggests actual nobility of spirit

highly suspicious, has double checked

anyway i dont wanna monopolize npcs or anything but I am vibrating slightly

also it would very funny to explain this + the whole Horrors Conspiracy thing

"so basically its like if, instead of working and planning against the day that sauran would rise because it's your moral duty, you spent all that time setting up mirkwood, rivendell and lothlarian as impenetrable elf-only fortresses with the intent of letting sauron just have everything else, who cares as long as you're safe amirite?"

ironically tolkien woulda been unhappy about his works being used to justify outright bigotry
one of his best features was hating nazis early

nazis: we wanna publish your work. white power!
tolkien: kiss my ass

yeah that was real good on his part

It was tolkien so it was very eloquent tho

"oh my god go away I may have some sketchy ideas about jews but when you talk about them suddenly I question that and they're cool"