What is perhaps the earliest explanation for the Orcs was published in the 1917 book, The Book of Lost Tales, where its stated that they were " bred from the heats and slimes of the earth." However, Tolkien's ideas about the Orcs seem to have evolved since then, since this theory is contradicted by another statement by Tolkien, which says that only Eru Illuvatar (Middle-earth's God) can create life. The problem is that Tolkien died before he could finish it, so what fans know of the origin of Orcs comes mostly from other texts of Tolkien's. The stories that went into The Silmarillion were being developed by Tolkien as early as 1914. Published in 1977, Tolkien's The Silmarillion was a five-part collection of stories that told the history of Middle-Earth, beginning with the First Age.
The books themselves don't explain where these creatures from, and while other published works from Tolkien shed some light on their origins, unfortunately there is no perfect answer.
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RELATED: Tolkien Estate Reveals What Amazon Can & Can't Change In LOTR Series The Orcs could potentially appear in Amazon's Lord of the Rings TV series, since Orcs do exist in the show's setting, the Second Age. This is what makes them such effective soldiers for the villains of Middle-earth, including Sauron and Saruman. These monstrous, humanoid creatures, who are totally devoid of any redeeming qualities, are consistently portrayed as forces of war and destruction. Tolkien, the writer who created the world of Middle-earth, has published various, contradicting thoughts on their origins. The Orcs are the primary henchmen of the villains in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, yet not much is known about what they really are.