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- From: dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Subject: Re: Where do orcs go upon dying?
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 15:24:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.191634.26691@b11.b11.ingr.com> craig@b11.b11.ingr.com (Craig Presson) writes:
- >In particular, I don't think what you say here is attested; I
- >remember statements about the Orcs being made _in mockery of elves_ or
- >some such, in similar vein to the creation of Dwarves from stone by
- >Aule.
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- I believe that the Silmarillion has a passage where it says that
- early elves were captured by Melkor and tormented in his dungeons, and
- that soon after the first orcs appeared. Other elves made the
- assumption that they were corrupted elves. (Sorry I don't have
- the book present, or I would quote.)
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