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[The Hobbit/Lord Of The Rings] Do orcs have a culture?

What do orcs do when they aren't waging war on the good guys? Do they have cities? Is there orcish art? music? poetry? Where do orcs take each other on the first date?
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In all of Tolkien's research on Middle-Earth, not even he knows much about their culture.  He's quoted as saying:

>"There must have been orc-women. But in stories that seldom if ever see the Orcs except as soldiers of armies in the service of the evil lords we naturally would not learn much about their lives. Not much was known."

(breaking the 4th wall a bit here, but there's important stuff about Orcs that not many people know)

Tolkien struggled with the true nature of Orcs until his death, leaving them still unresolved.  If Orcs have a 'culture' consisting of things like art, music, poetry, etc, then they'd obviously be sentient and have a 'soul' of sorts.  But where does this soul come from?  Ilúvatar himself is the only entity that can grant true sentience or 'souls' to things; ex: Valar, Maiar, Elves, Men, Dwarves, Hobbits, Ents, etc.  

But where do Orcs come from?  Originally they were to be created by Melkor from mud and stone, but Tolkien believed that only God (Ilúvatar) can truly create life, and that evil can only mock or corrupt.  So then perhaps Orcs came from Elves (this is what's written in the Silmarillion).  But then does Melkor have the power to corrupt Elvish souls?  Tolkien didn't think so.  So where *do* they come from?  He began thinking maybe Orcs were a corruption of Men, or other various ideas.  But that leads to all sorts of chronology problems and nothing official came of it so we're left to wonder.

We do know that Orcs seem to be completely evil with no redeeming qualities (at least to us).  They're fit for nothing other than to be slaughtered on sight.  Taking Orcs prisoner and treating them humanely isn't ever even considered, by anyone.  Orcs are evil.  But they also seem to have a free will of sorts.  They only serve Morgoth/Sauron out of fear and from Morgoth/Sauron's innate power of domination and command.  It seems they'd betray anyone and everyone if they could to benefit themselves.   

So they make decisions for themselves, and have personal goals.  That sounds like free will to me.  But why are they all completely evil without exception?  And what does that say about any 'soul' they may have?  Tolkien himself couldn't figure it out.  If you can answer that you can probably figure out what their culture is like.