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How does J.R.R Tolkien say orcs came to be?

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The first orcs were elves, whom Morgoth, the first dark lord, captured, and by dark sorcery and torture, twisted them into the forms of Orcs. Ironic, is it not, that the Elves' foes were once elves themselves? The relevant passage in The Silmarillionreads: "Yet this is held true by the wise of Eressëa, that all those of the Quendi [elves] who came into the hands of Melkor, ere Utumno was broken, were put there in prison, and by slow arts of cruelty were corrupted and enslaved; and thus did Melkor breed the hideous race of the Orcs in envy and mockery of the Elves, of whom they were afterwards the bitterest foes." "And deep in their dark hearts the Orcs loathed the Master whom they served in fear, the maker only of their misery. This it may be was the vilest deed of Melkor, and the most hateful to Ilúvatar."

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