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I happened across this story and wanted to say how blown away I was with it. Spectacular job! Your story hooked me in from the very beginning. I love how well you were able to flesh out new OCs and make them fit so well into the story, and make the reader really care about them. It's pretty rare to find fics that explore life within Mordor and provide a perspective from orcs and uruks. Thanks for sharing this.

Thank you so much for the review, I'm glad you liked it! I've tried hard not to lose or tone down what makes Tolkien's orcs what they are, tried to keep them just as selfish and cruel as they're portrayed in canon but added more depth. They're not irredeemable, but the question hangs in the air; do they want to be redeemed?

To be honest I had forgotten that I had posted this story here. It has grown a LOT since this was posted and is still being updated regularly over at AO3.