Under The Olive Tree

Songs……, the songs of the soul……, – are inherent. We all sing, even the Orcs.

In the Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien describes their songs in these words, “Sam heard a burst of hoarse singing, blaring of horns and banging of gongs, a hideous clamour…”

A hideous clamour, indeed.

And of what do we sing? We sing of our own worlds, and all that our world encompasses – however covered in gross darkness, or pained by brutality, or brilliantly illuminated, or bathed in evening’s glow – we sing from our depths and from our souls.

Songs can be contrived, that is certain – but even those songs belie the character and intent of their creators. The sirens of every treacherous reef cry to us from the displays of the merchants of souls. No, that is not what we are talking about – we are talking about the music of our very own vibration and existence.

The Orcs then – what do they sing of? Would you expect them to sing an Elvish song? Nay, the songs of the Elves they would despise – much in the same way they despise everything else.

No, they sing of plunder and spoil, of a heady descent into unrighteousness, of treachery (from trechier “to cheat, deceive”) and deception (“to ensnare, to take in”); they sing of unabashed carnality, hedonism and degradation - tortured souls whose anthem shouts out their own damnation.

If you embrace an Orcish song, beware that you do not discover, as one web site entices, “the evil Uruk of Mordor that lies within!” – The self-confessed murderer, Saul of Tarsus, – in his final treatise proclaimed, “yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.” The Holy Scriptures – Romans 16:19

As the Hobbit Pippin says, “…we have no songs fit for great halls and evil times, lord. We seldom sing of anything more terrible than wind or rain. And most of my songs are about things that make us laugh; or about food and drink, of course.”

If you dare to enter the lands of the Orcs, to sing to them a song of redemption and salvation – remember the words of the fisherman Peter, “for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.” You may sing to them, but you dare not sing with them.

Jesus the Prophet admonished us, “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.” (Jesus preaching on the Mount of Olives)