02-11-2003, 19:31
il me semble qu'on le voit dans "The Letters"
En tout cas, on voit clairement dans HoME X que le sujet a pas mal évolué. En voici des extraits :
-"On the typescript of AAm [The Annals of Aman] my father noted against the account of the origin of the Orcs: 'Alter this. Orcs are not Elvish'"
-"In summary: I think it must be assumed that 'talking' is not necessarily the sign of the possession of a 'rational soul' or fea.(7) The Orcs were beasts of humanized shape (to mock Men and Elves) deliberately perverted I converted into a more close resemblance to Men."
-"He [Tolkien] now expressly asserts the earlier view (see p. 408 and note 1) that the Orcs were in origin corrupted Elves, but observes that 'later' some were probably derived from Men."
E.