This
category is for fictional characters and sub-races that are versions of the popular
Orc race in fantasy fiction. Especially in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, orcs appear as a brutish, aggressive, ugly, and malevolent
race of monsters, contrasting with the benevolent
Elves. They are a corrupted race of elves, either bred that way by
Morgoth, or turned savage in that manner, according to the Silmarillion.