We are taught to see both races in a sympathetic light; an Orc baby reminds us that the Orcs are not just beasts, and a (wounded) human youth reminds us that members of the Alliance are not always powerful.ย
The Orcs at first believe that because their own world was dying they had no choice but to invade the human world, and the humans also believe that their troubles are not their responsibility, but both sides learn that it is one of their own race who causes their sorrows, and not the other nation.ย
The main form of dialogue between the races comes in the form of a female Orc who falls prisoner to the humans, and the movie's main comment on the strife of the races is discovered by a human Mage who finds that it is written, not that light fights with darkness, but that "from light comes darkness, and from darkness, light".ย