Also likely, that historically the victors rewrote history to make their enemies barbaric to justify their war. so maybe Orc civilisations wasn't as backwards and evil as we we're led to belive.

Also none of the story is actually in English; what we read is a localization.

And to think I worried about pre-firearms archers yelling “fire!” and the potatoes.

That's the thing, they've been around for like 8k years since Durin I, plenty of time to dissect orc and study their insides.

In the extended extended edition, Boromir recites the entirety of John Galt's speech.

"We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators."

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 1976

But it's on the internet. It must be true.

technically wrong but realistically correct.

Swing and a miss