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6In-universe, the Lord of the Rings was written by Frodo (possibly ended by Sam, and following up from Bilbo's account of his adventure) so it doesn't really fit to have any passage written from an orc's point of view. It's mostly an omniscient narrator, or from a hobbit's POV, as far as I can remember. The only exceptions that I can think of are Aragon, Gimli and Legolas' hunt, and a character relating events in dialogue (such as Gandalf at the Council, and Legolas recounting the Paths of the Dead).– Nicola TalbotCommented Jul 2, 2018 at 17:49
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14Although there is a first-person internal monologue from a fox! scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35391/…– DavislorCommented Jul 2, 2018 at 18:34
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3@Wade I think Galastel's answer was what I was thinking of, a conversation between Shagrat and Gorbag. If that's not it either, then I'm afriad my suggestion wasn't quite right after all!– NathanSCommented Jul 2, 2018 at 18:48
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6Re: the fox: I've seen a theory that says that Bilbo was essentially the author in the Red Book of the content of Book I of LotR (so up to when Frodo et al get to Rivendell), and he had a more...flowery style (cf the Hobbit, which is definitely in-universe written by Bilbo). So the description of the long expected party etc is very much close to the Hobbit (with enraged spiders and all) in style. In our world, Tolkien was of course trying to write the sequel to the Hobbit, and his story and style started that way and changed over the time he wrote LotR.– David RobertsCommented Jul 3, 2018 at 8:21
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3@DavidRoberts Since Bilbo met Frodo at Rivendell and learned the whole story up to then, and had little to do afterward but write, that makes perfect sense in-universe. But yes, the parts where the author tells us what animals were thinking who obviously never could have told the author have to be read as a literary embellishment.– DavislorCommented Jul 3, 2018 at 12:17
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