A origem dos orcs está em dúvida, o que não está em dúvida é que não, o rei bruxo não criou orcs.
O Silmarillion nos diz que orcs eram elfos corruptos, torturados nos poços de Angband por Morgoth, que não tinham o poder de criar uma nova vida, apenas para corromper.
But of those unhappy ones who were ensnared by Melkor little is known of a certainty. For who of the living has descended into the pits of Utumno, or has explored the darkness of the counsels of Melkor? Yet this is held true by the wise of Eressëa, that all those of the Quendi who came into the hands of Melkor, ere Utumno was broken, were put there in prison, and by slow arts of cruelty were corrupted and enslaved; and thus did Melkor breed the hideous race of the Orcs in envy and mockery of the Elves, of whom they were afterwards the bitterest foes. For the Orcs had life and multiplied after the manner of the Children of Ilúvatar; and naught that had life of its own, nor the semblance of life, could ever Melkor make since his rebellion in the Ainulindalë before the Beginning: so say the wise.
Ref: O Silmarillion: DA VINDA DOS ELFOS E DO CATIVEIRO DE MELKOR