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Christopher did a fantastic work preserving his father's legacy and trying to make sense out of all the notes and unfinished text he left behind.
But I really dislike at this point how he put this idea that orcs are corrupted elves into the Silmarillion and therefore made it (somewhat?) canon. Tolkien could never decide what their origin was. At some point, they were corrupted humans, corrupted beasts, a mix out of beasts and humans. One story had them be made out of stone.
My dislike for the notion that they are supposed to be corrupted elves is not just about how it has very questionable implications about so much. It's also how it leads to idiot threads like OPs. Some people really seem to struggle with the concept of fantasy worlds and settings working under different rules, even if they (superficially) copy the standard Tolkien races. You have retards say "well, orcs are basically elves anyway" about settings in which both races have zero connection to each other, outside of being mortal enemies. They heard Tolkien did it this way, now every setting also does it this way, regardless of what their respective writers says (they never read anything anyway).
