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Helms gives a short analysis of the use by Blake and Tolkien of a creature named Orc as a symbol of perfected humanity (Blake) and as a symbol of perverted humanity (Tolkien). Both Orcs, the author feels, are id projections in freudian terminology, with strongly sexual natures. Both are also descriptive of the established order. But here the resemblance ends. For to Blake the established order is bad, to Tolkien it is good. To Blake the established order is sexually repressive, to Tolkien this is good because sex is so relatively unimportant. To