Learning from Peter Jackson

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by Sister Golden Hair
Valandil, according to Tolkien, it was the greatest mockery to Iluvatar by Morgoth, that when he bred the hidious race of Orcs, that they were to reproduce in the same fashion as the Children of Iluvatar.

Hence my feelings that Morgoth created orcs from elves and NOT men. What better way to slap the face of Ilúvatar than to take his most prized creation and twist it into a hideous beast?

I think Tolkien's brain wasn't all there when he wrote that obsure letter only 2 years before his death where he says that it makes more sense that they came from men. I especially feel this way - because it states in Lord of the Rings that they were from elves. I think he simply forgot what he had written - which he often did. His notes were a disaster - asi s well documented and he often forgot what he had written.