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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
Then you find the all elf or dwarf or human tribe... due to infanticide of "wrong" babies.
Rigid caste system that's "obviously" divinely ordained. Born an orc, you were born to a life of menial labor or military service. Your elf brother was just as obviously born for greater things. That he was given all the education and love certainly isn't the reason why he excels.
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Tolkien kind of backtracked on that. What he really wanted was mooks and found out he had accidently reprobated an intelligent species.
One could argue that it is no different than traditional vampires who become evil because they got bit. But than that is rather a distasteful concept too.
My point is that the OP has a biologically clumsy way of solving the problem that requires more backstory. A more simple way is to eliminate orcs and replace them with human barbarians or bandits. The problem you speak of does not appear with elves or dwarves.