agghhh!! darn those elfs and their racisim!

[Archpaladin Zousha]

Actually the evil elves all turned into orcs. Those elven examples are just elves being idiots.

And I've been ninja'd. Yes, those are examples of elves being idiots, but according the customary D&D moral compass, those were evil acts. They were acts that were considered bad by the values Tolkien wove into the story, and they were undertaken for inherently selfish reasons. The elves who sired the orcs weren't neccesarily evil. An elf who commits an evil act doesn't become an orc instantly. There's some sort of torture process that forces the elf to become an orc. Yes, orcs are a race of evil that was spawned from the elves, but that doesn't mean that regular elves aren't capable of some really heinous stuff, which seems to be the D&D paradigm.