In his telling, the orcs were originally elves, tortured and corrupted by Melkor until they became the purely evil, disfigured creatures we know today. But unlike the elf, which was pulled and clarified from a number of mythologies, Tolkien basically invented the orc. Inverse wrote previously about how The Lord of the Rings (both book and film trilogy) defined the elf in our collective conscious. Yet Warcraft has been rewriting the orc into a complex race for years, which means moviegoers are in for a whole new orc experience. It’s no wonder they were quickly adopted by numerous tabletop and video games. They were the perfect evil mercenaries for an epic fantasy battle: growling, ugly, uncomplicated, and in endless supply. Tolkien brought us the orc, and like most things Tolkien, it has become a staple of the fantasy genre.
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