Through a process of corruption and breeding, he twisted them into the first Orcs. Later in life, Tolkien further reflected on the origin of Orcs and concluded that they might have come from Men ...

He is the acolyte of Morgoth, a Satan figure in Tolkien’s mythos. Morgoth creates sun-hating minions, the orcs, during his reign of darkness — hellspawn, in other words, created by a devil ...

Everyone and their mother knows what an Orc is. J.R.R. Tolkien popularized the term in "The Lord of the Rings," and since then, it has become part of the modern vernacular. In the Oxford English ...

But it’s simple fact that Tolkien wrote that orcs reproduce like humans, and there is material in his writings that support the show’s occasionally gentle depiction of these creatures.

Apparently there are orc women who are waiting for their husbands to get back from war. Tolkien literally wrote that they are grown like plants and only live to kill. So glad I didn't pay to see." ...

Last week’s Rings of Power episode, “Doomed to Die,” depicted the much-anticipated Siege of Eregion — a deadly battle from ...

X/Twitter users are in an uproar because of the orc baby, but mostly because they feel the show is trying to make sympathetic beings out of these vicious creatures. But it’s simple fact that Tolkien ...