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Re:There and Snack Again: How to Eat Everything in the Lord ... by vanderZwan on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @11:04AM (#19096225)
Well, they were created from elves:

> Before Oromë first found the Elves at Cuiviénen, Melkor enslaved some of them and cruelly tortured them, turning them into Orcs.

Of course, like all answers this just poses more questions.

https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Orcs

Re:There and Snack Again: How to Eat Everything in the Lord ... by z3phyr on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @12:44PM (#19097551)
So are the Orcs immortal too? Do they go to Halls of Mandos when they die? What about the Uruks?
Re:There and Snack Again: How to Eat Everything in the Lord ... by neaden on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @05:00PM (#19100524)
Basically Tolkien never could come up with a good way to have orcs with metaphysics he liked. He didn't believe a free willed being could be inherently evil, so at times he wrote that orcs had no free will and just did what Sauron wanted, essentially ants. Other times he thought that didn't fit and had them as people in a cruel situation who ended up cruel, but that was also unsatisfying for him. There isn't really one canon answer as to what an orc is.
Re:There and Snack Again: How to Eat Everything in the Lord ... by sigzero on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @01:22PM (#19098000)
It is entirely possible that they are. It is more likely that the corruption of Melkor took that away (although they still may be longer lived).

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102023/how-are-orc...