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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
Nobody knew about orcs at that point.
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Depends which version of history regarding the origin of the Orks that you suscribe to. Tolkien certainly leaves the door wide open there- and if memory serves, there is one reference to Ork (linguistically) being derived in Elvish from primitive Elven menaces in the days of the Great March and earlier.
And, if one decides that Orks came from Elves (and so were probably distorted by Morgoth prior to his Ages of imprisonment), then there may indeed have been Orks abroad (albeit in small numbers) for the Sindar to know and kill.
And, the Petty-Dwarves being two-legged, upright, and unlovely by Elven standards... who's to say that they wouldn't have been taken for Orks?