I swear if we app them it's going to turn into an IC issue
[[Ahaha, my thoughts went in the same direction. Also, book/movie mish-mash is go, because this will be confusing enough anyway.]]
No... Something else than Orcs is at work here. [To put it mildy. She-elf? He must mean Tauriel. That... raises more questions than it answers, really. It's fortunate he doesn't find the idea of the ghosts of mortals frightening to begin with. He shakes his head, as if that's going to make sense of this.]
What "something" that is I ignore the same as you - we awoke, it seems, in much the same manner. [Alone and confused, that is.]