Tolkien's Quirks

I don't know if maybe he just was bothered by that irredeemable thing, which is why he was sort of like, well, I don't want to touch my precious elves. He actually, the reason he never finished the Sumerilian in part was that he was always responding to every single letter that came in until he got like way too big and then he had a publicist. But it's just one of his quirks here is that he didn't know what to do with Orcs. So yeah, I mean, they were made by Morgoth as we just saw and as the show has adopted at least as it's canon creation story. And so theoretically, they

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