Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26295802-20160321234711/@comment-26149161-20160704132226

The Lord of Minas Morgul wrote: Is there a canon place that mentions Orcs being made from Elves? Because I'm in te peocess of reading the Silmarillion, and right now it looks to me like they were just a mockery. Later on in his life, Tolkien decided it was most likely that Orcs were drawn from the Kindred of Men, corrupted and tortured in a similar manner to how people think the Elves were. He also stated the possibility of them being sentient beasts, or possibly (but unlikely) Elves.

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lome) 13:22, July 4, 2016 (UTC)