I think it was a fairly reasonable inference. Orcs were obviously vaguely similar to Elves, at least to a zoologist's eye (same body plan, obvious anthropoids etc), and the Sindar might not have known about Men, so the logical inference would be that they were of Elvish origin somehow.
My theory was that Morgoth grew the original generation of Orcs using tissue from captured Elves (and used the hand that Maedhros left behind as well; waste not, want not and those genes would surely come in useful). Not whole live ones, because of the whole fea-hroa problem (Eru is the one who distributes fear and surely wouldn't force them into the bodies of tortured mutants, generation after generation). They're something like organic von Neumann machines, self-replicating AIs running on the programmes that Morgoth designed for them, or actually on little sub-routines of himself.
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Date: 2014-05-06 01:19 am (UTC)My theory was that Morgoth grew the original generation of Orcs using tissue from captured Elves (and used the hand that Maedhros left behind as well; waste not, want not and those genes would surely come in useful). Not whole live ones, because of the whole fea-hroa problem (Eru is the one who distributes fear and surely wouldn't force them into the bodies of tortured mutants, generation after generation). They're something like organic von Neumann machines, self-replicating AIs running on the programmes that Morgoth designed for them, or actually on little sub-routines of himself.