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It brings tears to my eyes knowing that my children don't have nightmares about orcs, trolls and the like, yet run screaming from Santa and the Easter Bunny at the mall.
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What bright little children. I'd run from Santa too.
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The boy figured out that even orcs can't live without their heads attached - the beginnings of skepticism and investigation.
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What you do in that case, is to show him the "dead" orc at the end of the Fellowship. As Aragorn's is running to Boromir, the orc looks up and watches him go by. Say to him, "But you thought this one was dead, and he isn't."