Well, that generally answers my question about Avari being progenitors of orcs, but the main focus of my query was to find out what happened to the eastern elves. As far as I know, there were also dwarf tribes that remained in the east. Were they all killed off or captured by Melkor (dwarf-orcs, now there's a thought; or better titled, the uruk-lows).
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Hearing our fate-appointed power sublime/Fixed by the eternal law.
For old our office, and our fame,"
-Aeschylus, Song of the Furies
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