(December 5, 2020 at 12:25 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: Why just the Orcs? There doesn't appear to be any organized religion in Middle Earth by the beginning of the 4th Age.
Lack of an organized religion doesn't automatically indicate atheism. But there are definite references to religious belief, particularly by the Rangers of Ithilien.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson