The Hobbit.

[Evening]

Nothing wrong with assuming elvish steel retains a razor shape edge and cuts through unarmoured orcs' (or any) necks 'like butter'. Although if Tauriel is doing it, I'm completely against it.

[Stormcrow]

Nothing wrong with assuming elvish steel retains a razor shape edge and cuts through unarmoured orcs' (or any) necks 'like butter'.

Nothing wrong with that at all. In fact it demonstrates my point: Jackson goes out of his way to depict the gore of violence where Tolkien couched violence in ways to remove the trauma to the listener.