It’s been a while for me but I’m pretty sure you’re thinking of Men. Elves woke up in the West of Beleriand.
No one really can definitively say where orcs came from but if we assume they were corrupted elves, which I like, then they are still technically a ‘western’ race.
Nah, you’re right! Elves woke up in the distant East as did Men. So I guess orcs could be considered eastern by my headcanon but so would everyone else like you said so I don’t know where that leaves us. Haha
Starting in the east and going west to die (like the sun) is a common trope in these epics, and actually just a common theme throughout culture and religions
It’s been a while for me but I’m pretty sure you’re thinking of Men. Elves woke up in the West of Beleriand.No one really can definitively say where orcs came from but if we assume they were corrupted elves, which I like, then they are still technically a ‘western’ race.Nah, you’re right! Elves woke up in the distant East as did Men. So I guess orcs could be considered eastern by my headcanon but so would everyone else like you said so I don’t know where that leaves us. Haha
Starting in the east and going west to die (like the sun) is a common trope in these epics, and actually just a common theme throughout culture and religions
The east could just refer to normal ass middle earth which was to the east of beleriand as well