I'm thinking of running an orc and goblin campaign in the Lortmill Mountains in the world of Greyhawk, but was thinking of later in the campaign turning it into an undead campaign. I don't know if there are undead in the Lortmills though and I want this to be as Canon as possible. Can anyone help me?
Whatever you want - your campaign, your "Canon" - there are plenty of demi-humans and humanoids in the Lortmils, and plenty of room for undead, dragons, wyverns, whatever you want. If you introduce Underdark dungeon areas, you can more than double the "geography"....
If you want it to be as "canon" as possible, you wouldn't really find a "lot" of goblins there. As of 592 CY there are mainly halflings, gnomes, and dwarves. "...The good folk acted in concert almost a century ago to expel most of the nonhumans and vicious monsters from the Lortmils..."
However, that doesn't mean you can't change that. Like the previous poster said, "it's your game." Gary Holian (one of the writer's of the Living Greyhawk Gazeteer) mentioned recently that there is no reason that pockets of humanoids such as goblins, orcs, etc. could not have avoided some of their kin's expulsion and still survive in hidden pockets and dens in the Lortmils.
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No reason you couldn't have a few hundred goblins in the Lortmils - they are quite expansive. Expansive enough to hide some ancient cities and valleys.
You wouldn't probably find an organized goblin army, but then again would you find that anywhere?
Plenty of corpses from the Hateful Wars CY498-510 to make fodder for undead. You could have skeletal dwarves, orcs, all kinds of interesting undead.
I'm thinking of running an orc and goblin campaign in the Lortmill Mountains in the world of Greyhawk, but was thinking of later in the campaign turning it into an undead campaign. I don't know if there are undead in the Lortmills though and I want this to be as Canon as possible. Can anyone help me?
If you want a location for massive amounts of undead, you might want to try Chathold. The city was destroyed during the Greyhawk Wars and all 5,000 members of it's population were killed with it. As a result, their corpses and spirits now haunt the leveled city.
If you want to keep the undead in the Lortmils, there's nothing anti-canonical about having them there. The undead could be the remnants of the Hateful Wars. There are probably a large amount of corpses of orcs, elves, dwarves, humans, goblins, gnolls, etc. remaining buried or hidden within the range. A necromancer could have come along and animated/created undead.