How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from The Two Towers.
Quote #7
FARMIR: [Going to the corpse of a dead Easterling and kicking it.] The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from, and if he was really evil at heart; what lies or threats led him on this long march from home; if he would not rather have stayed there, in peace. War will make corpses of us all.
It's easy for us to look at the orcs as unthinking beasts of pure evil. We can hate them and not care if they die. But Faramir pulls us back to reality. He tells Frodo and Sam that the journey of this single dead Easterling is completely unknown to them. Is he really that much different from any man in Middle-earth fighting against Sauron's army? When two soldiers lie dead next to each other on the field of battle, any idea of sides of good and evil seems irrelevant.