The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022) S2 E7
dampyiel2200 2 points 1 month ago.

The orcs and goblins are sentient so why aren’t their any “good” ones? They all can’t just be evil can they? From my understanding just from the movies and this TV show. That they were made with dark magic or something. But they do think for themselves and make choices individually.

Euringer 5 points 1 month ago.

Happy to be proven wrong, but afaik they are sentient AND sapient. In the Silmarillion they’re Elves corrupted by Morgoth, though in private letters that would be published and analyzed by Christopher Tolkien they’re all sorts of things from Elves to men even to Maia. Either way, in the published text they simply choose to be bad and side with Morgoth because they just straight up hate Elves and to a lesser degree humans - later Sauron’s corrupting effect is much, much stronger on Orcs and Goblins though so you’d probably be unlikely to come across a chill Orc in LOTR times.