In this scattershot series, we’ll be delving “too greedily and too deep,” prying gems out of the glorious rough that is the extended legendarium of Tolkien’s world. This includes drawing on The Lord of the Rings itself, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, and the History of Middle-earth (or HoMe) books.
Previously, on Tolkien’s Orcs…
I concluded in part 1, which covered the monstrous hoi polloi of Middle-earth as presented in
The Hobbit and in
The Lord of the Rings, that Orcs are driven to mayhem and frankly, the will to do anything substantive
by the power of Sauron. Which is to say, when there’s no Dark Lord in the neighborhood to give them some moxie, they become idle (relatively speaking) and their numbers stay down. But what about before all that? What happened before Sauron even became the head honcho of evil?
BBC News
By Ijeoma Ndukwe
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There is a lot of money in chocolate but the producers of the raw material see very little of it.
Last year the retail industry was worth $107bn (£78bn), according to one projection, but Ghana - the world s second largest cocoa producer - earned just around $2bn.
This is a familiar pattern for many African countries where the economy is still shaped by a colonial relationship in which they export commodities to be processed elsewhere.
Ghana s President, Nana Akufo-Addo, served notice on this last year when he told an audience in Switzerland that there can be no future prosperity for the Ghanaian people if this way of doing things continues.
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Vibrant Foods has added to its portfolio of South Asian food companies with the acquisition of nuts and spices supplier Fudco.
The purchase is the ethnic food group’s second in less than a month, having completed the acquisition of paneer maker Everest Dairies in March. Vibrant, created in 2020 by private equity firm Exponent in 2020, also has Cofresh, TRS and East End in its stable.
Family-run business
Fudco, led by brothers Sheilesh and Akhil Shah, employs 68 people across its food arm’s headquarters and factory in Willesden and retail store on Ealing Road, and has remained a family-run business since its foundation in 1979.