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Originally Posted by gjc8
Not to mention differences in attractiveness between different elf and orc cultures.
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Originally Posted by Blood Legend
You silly nutters and your concepts of untraditional beauty... ;D
Take an elf. Make him green or dark grey (depending on your orc). Give him subdued tusks and a full head of hair like Aragorn. Snout his nose only slightly to give him an obvious bit of inhumanity, and make him buffer than a human.
Done.
'Cause it seems to need the commentary, this will make a generally attractive sub-orc for a western audience or suitable human culture.
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Originally Posted by Phoenix_Dragon
That orc might have both attractive and unattractive. Attractive to the dominant setting species (Typically humans), but unattractive to other orcs.
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I was thinking about this earlier today, and I think perhaps a pretty orc
would look something like an elf. It is sometimes said that orcs are to humans what humans are to elves. If this is the case, that would mean -to some extent- there would be a relationship between beauty and how the races appear to each other. Elves tend to be viewed as beautiful by humans. If orcs are to humans what humans are to elves, that would mean that a beautiful orc might look very similar to a human, and an extremely attractive orc might have a few elven features.