The origin of the race of Orcs is a controversial topic among scholars of Tolkien's mythology, as it's something the author changed his mind on quite a few times before his death.

The Orcs In The Prequel Series Are Closer To Tolkien's Depiction Adar's soldiers in The Rings of Power may not be Black Uruks or Uruk-hai, but they're still not totally like the Orcs in The Lord ...

In a letter in 1963 to one "Mrs Munby," Tolkien also explicitly addressed the question of Orc women and non-warfront Orcish culture, saying, "There must have been orc-women.

This fictional character originated in the mind of Professor J.R.R. Tolkien and became the Dark Lord before his lieutenant, Sauron, took his place as one of Middle-earth’s greatest dangers.

Orcs, called goblins in The Hobbit, have loomed large in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy world since the beginning. The Lord of the Rings ‘ orcs served Morgoth during the Years of the Trees before ...

With orcs, there is no overlap to draw on, no there there. Tolkien — and Morgoth — created them to be agents of evil. The metaphor falls flat when there’s nothing on the other side of it.

The dark lord Sauron has many servants to do his bidding in The Lord of the Rings. However, the ones that the protagonists seem to encounter most are the orcs. Tolkien never fleshed out these ...

It's orcs' blood and popcorn, the sweet smell of money -- that is, another book from J. R. R. Tolkien, the late literary icon who brought us The Lord of the Rings.

Her company, HarperCollins, is busy launching The Children of Hurin, a new novel by J.R.R. Tolkien -- if a novel begun almost 80 years ago by a man who's been dead for more than 30 years can be ...