From: omeallymd@geemail.com   
      
   On 2019-07-19 18:47:53 +0000, Michael F. Stemper said:   
      
   > We know that Sauron made orcs by somehow twisting and perverting some   
   > elves. After that, were they self-propagating? I.e., were there female   
   > orcs -- down in Nurn maybe, or out in Rhûn?   
   >   
   > I'll admit that JRRT doesn't explicitly state the genders of the orcs   
   > that we see up close and personal in tLotR, but Gorbag and Snaga always   
   > struck me as male.   
      
   IDHTBIFOM, but I recall in one of the _Letters_ that Tolkien states   
   that orcs breed sexually just like any Man, Elf, Dwarf, etc.   
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