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Orcs are Tolkienz (from South Africa) stand-in for lesser races whose lives dont matter.
He was actually actively conflicted about how he used the orcs in his stories. See: Tolkien's Moral Dilemma
Cognitive dissonance. Doesnt rescue the trope