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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9735346" data-attributes="member: 42856">Not sure about that. They seemed to carry an initial taint that is impossible to overcome. The films had Saruman create them in vats, I suppose to emphasize their alien character further.Which doesn't make it right. Killing people in self-defence, why not, but slaughtering enemies, even in the context of war, is a war crime. We never see orc prisonners in the Silmarillion (despite numerous mentions of Melkor taking hordes of prisonners from Men and Elves). It may be a narrative ellipse, it might be that they just slaughter them. It would be coherent with the overall behaviour of Elves, who aren't especially fond of other species.I am not familiar with the notes related to post-LotR events, but the One Ring Wiki states that : "Following the destruction of the <a href="https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/One_Ring" target="_blank">One Ring</a>, the Orcs scattered, eventually dwindling and being hunted to extinction (or near-extinction levels) in the <a href="https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Fourth_Age" target="_blank">Fourth Age</a>."It might be their interpretation, but it sounds like a bona fide genocide if they are people.I think they don't make good "easy to kill" enemies either. They are just behaving with humans the way we behave with food.</blockquote>