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RE: Melkor's minions- Orcs on: July 15, 2007 09:14
It's been a while since I read the books, so I'm a little out of shape, but as I recall Orcs are derivative creatures: they're not something new that was created by Melkor, but rather an already existing beings (Elves?) that are corrupted/tortured into an inferior life form.
That seems significant for the kind of being Melkor is, but I've always felt that Tolkien didn't tell us enough about the Orcs themselves. They seem to be sort of void, always defined in negatives: not Elves, not free, not kind,...