User blog comment:BeholdtheVision/COMMENT PLEASE/@comment-1897744-20100409024212

...Tolkien can NOT have gotten them wrong. HE CREATED THEM. Tolkien literally COINED THE TERM 'orc' to denote the creatures identified as orcs today.

(And WTF do you mean by 'elves who joined the ring'? Yes, the elven kings were given three rings; the dwarfs were given seven; the humans nine. That has nothing to do with what you're referring to. Especially because ORCS DO NOT EXIST, AT ALL, IN GREEK MYTHOS. While the word 'ork' was in use in epics such as Beowulf, this does NOT denote the same thing as it does today. BECAUSE ORCS DID NOT EXIST UNTIL TOLKIEN.)