Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Thinlómien
If orcs have some sort of free will, I think they would be able to "behave" in a human society. If they don't, then obviously not.
|
It depends really how much store you set by this statement in Tolkien's Letters (quoted above by
Sharkû via
Son of Númenor):
Quote:
|
They would be Morgoth's greatest Sins, abuses of his highest privilege, and would be creatures begotten of Sin, and naturally bad.
|
I read from this that evil is the natural state for an Orc, something that is an essential part of the Orc's nature and which the Orc itself is unable to change. Accordingly, I would instead say that they have limited free will. Their choices will always be limited by their natural impulse to evil.