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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9607840" data-attributes="member: 8461">Yeah, no. Or rather, it's complicated.The issue of how the orcs were created was one that Tolkien kept coming back to over the years, because he effectively wrote himself into a corner where their origin was concerned. That was because it was a fairly important point in his legendarium that evil could not truly create anything; it could only twist and corrupt what had already been made. But he also wanted there to be hordes of evil beings who could act as foot soldiers in evil armies, acting as fodder that the heroes could cut down without raising questions as to whether they were beings would souls (and so could potentially be redeemed, which was a theme meant to be focused on the likes of Gollum).The result was that Tolkien came up with <a href="https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Orcs/Origin" target="_blank">numerous ideas</a> about the origin of the orcs, but never settled on one, which means that them being corrupted elves is just one idea out of several that he contemplated but never fully committed to.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 9607840, member: 8461"] Yeah, no. Or rather, it's complicated. The issue of how the orcs were created was one that Tolkien kept coming back to over the years, because he effectively wrote himself into a corner where their origin was concerned. That was because it was a fairly important point in his legendarium that evil could not truly create anything; it could only twist and corrupt what had already been made. But he also wanted there to be hordes of evil beings who could act as foot soldiers in evil armies, acting as fodder that the heroes could cut down without raising questions as to whether they were beings would souls (and so could potentially be redeemed, which was a theme meant to be focused on the likes of Gollum). The result was that Tolkien came up with [URL='https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Orcs/Origin']numerous ideas[/URL] about the origin of the orcs, but never settled on one, which means that them being corrupted elves is just one idea out of several that he contemplated but never fully committed to. [/QUOTE]

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