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I usually play what this wiki calls pacifist; I try to get  positive alignment with as many factions as I can. What I've noticed is that different factions are more eager to give quests and different factions are more likely to give different kinds of quests. This makes it easier or harder to get alignment with them at the same time as with their enemies.

For example hobbits are really easy to get alignment with. They all ask item-related quests for things easily obtainable with a normal crafting table. Rangers and Gundabad orcs are hard to gain alignment with at first; they don't give mini-quests very often, and when they do they want to you to kill lots of enemies, even enemies that live very far away (Galadhrim elves for example). When they do ask item-related quests it's often quests that require either their crafting table (requiring alignment already) or drops from an enemy. Uruks are pretty easy because they give lots of mini-quests and most of them are item-related; not requiring you to kill people.