(reviving an old thread [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img])
According to some of Tolkiens later sources, the Orcs were supposed to be Men, corrupted by the Dark Lord, if I remember correct. Thus he was planning to make Men having awakened earlier...
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Auta i lomë! Aurë entuluva!
"Take no heed! We speak as is right, and as King Finwë himself did before he was led astray. We are his heirs by right and the elder house. Let them sá-sí, if they can speak no better."
-Son of the Therindë
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