Jrr tolkien the rings of power6/10/2023 The first prose work Tolkien ever wrote about Middle-earth was the story “Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin” in The Book of Lost Tales, and it is there that the orcs first make their appearance in Tolkien’s world, as creatures made by “Melko” (later Morgoth) out of mud and slime, with hearts of granite. But in all that span, one of the most difficult and persistent problems that continually disturbed his created world was the problem of the origin of the orcs, and it is reflected in the history of his writings all the way from his very earliest works until his death. This collection of mythic and legendary material that would later be compiled and assembled into The Silmarillion (and the later 12-volume History of Middle-earth collection) was revised, edited, and sometimes entirely rewritten by Tolkien multiple times over the years, and was left ultimately unfinished upon his death. And launching his bark like a silver sparkĭown the sunlit breath of Day’s fiery Death
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