Originally posted by Exa
Yeah, most probably that, or perhaps also some of the later Light Elves when they lived next to Cuiviénen in the millenia before Orome brought them to the west.Maybe some are also Light or at least Grey Elves - from Beleriand in Morgoth's dungeons (whence Flinding escaped),
the Kaukareldar, or Tolkien also sometimes suggests Men as the origin of orcs (though he says differently in LoTR)
I thought that the elves of which Orome brought to the west were the ones who wondered off themselves and were captured by melkors servants and dark spirits and formed into Orcs