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Originally Posted by Aiwendil
What makes you say this? We have few glimpses in the Silmarillion material of Orcs in anything like the kind of detail afforded by this chapter; but I have always felt that the glimpses we do have do match up rather well with the depiction in LotR.
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But was this episode written pre- or post LotR - don't have my books to hand?
Did the writing of episodes like this one in LotR change the Orcs of the Sil - was this change written back into the Silmarillion?