Even if the Orcs weren't spies, Maeglin couldn't have been just feeding them information so that he could escape torture for the time being. He could have been playing with their desire for rewards and power, however slight it is, by telling them that there could have been something good in store for them if they brought Morgoth such a "noble captive."
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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