I mean it too. The Orc debate is a long one, and I will not take it here.
In short, Tolkien wrote three essays on the origin of orcs. Two of them concluded with orcs being Men, the last (but unfinished one) said they were beasts.
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Auta i lomë! Aurë entuluva!
"Take no heed! We speak as is right, and as King Finwë himself did before he was led astray. We are his heirs by right and the elder house. Let them sá-sí, if they can speak no better."
-Son of the Therindë
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