![]() ![]() It is notable however, that the text itself is not sure about the origin, but only presents what " the wise of Eressëa" held, which might not be true. This was the text Christopher used for his edition of The Silmarillion ( chapter 3), although while revising the Annals, his father wrote a note in the margin: " Alter this. Īs Christopher Tolkien comments, this new origin includes the explicit idea that Morgoth could not make anything with life after his rebellion. This maybe was the vilest deed of Melkor and the most hateful to Eru. And deep in their dark hearts the Orkor loathed the Master whom they served in fear, the maker only of their misery. For the Orkor had life and multiplied after the manner of the Children of Ilúvatar and naught that had life of its own, nor the semblance thereof, could ever Melkor make since his rebellion in the Ainulindalë before the Beginning: so say the wise. Thus did Melkor breed the hideous race of the Orkor in envy and mockery of the Eldar, of whom they were afterwards the bitterest foes. Yet this is held true by the wise of Eressëa: that all those of the Quendi that came into the hands of Melkor, ere Utumno was broken, were put there in prison, and by slow arts of cruelty and wickedness were corrupted and enslaved. 1085, those Elves who ran from Oromë were captured by Melkor and taken to Utumno:īut of those hapless who were snared by Melkor little is known of a certainty. In the Annals of Aman (1950s) appears the most known origin: in the Y.T. ![]() The same explanation is mentioned in the second version of The Fall of Númenor, written in the same years. Therefore this origin is a development of the previous one, but already points to the great sin of the mockery of the Children of Ilúvatar. Later in the text is explained that they were made of stone, like in the previous version. ![]() There it is said that, after the destruction of the Two Lamps, Morgoth created many evil creatures of different shapes, " yet the Orcs were not made until he had looked upon the Elves, and he made them in mockery of the Children of Ilúvatar". Based on Elves įollowing the idea that Morgoth created the Orcs after the Awakening of the Elves, Tolkien developed it in the Quenta Silmarillion of 1937. However, in The Earliest Annals of Beleriand this happens in Angband after the theft of the Silmarils. In the following and more serious revision of his mythology, Tolkien kept the same origin: in the Quenta Noldorinwa (1930s) it is written that Morgoth created the Orcs in Utumna, before the Awakening of the Elves: " the hordes of Orcs he made of stone, but their hearts of hatred". Created directly by him, Orcs are thus called "broodlings of Melko" or "children of Melko". The text also mentions Noldoli being twisted by Melko and mingled among the Orcs, so that they were even confused as being of that race, but as Christopher Tolkien comments, that notion is unrelated with the origin. Their hearts were of granite and their bodies deformed. for all that race were bred by Melko of the subterranean heats and slime. The first conception in The Book of Lost Tales (1917-1920) describes explicitly how Melko created Orcs or Goblins directly from earth: ![]()
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